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Vol. 8

(January — December, 1883) ,

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1883

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VoL. 8. No, I.

January, 1883.

Contents :

Page.

Editorial 3

Co-operative Indexing.

Boston Libraries.

The “Inquisitorial” American Librarian.

Communications * • • 4

Poole’s Index.

Errata et Corrigenda.

"Scheme for Annual Indexes to Periodical Lit-
erature.— W, F. Poole and W. I. Fletcher ... s
Cooperative Indexing of Current Periodicals. —

JV, K, Sieison s

Page.

Standard Covers for Temporary Binding. — B.

Pickman Mann 6

Libraries and Politics 7

Library Statistics.— C. C. 7

Library Economy and History 8

Bibliografy

Library Purchase List 13

Notes and Queries '16

Anonyms and Pseudonyms

General Notes . . 16

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173.313

THE LIBRARY JOURNAL.

^January., ’85,

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THE ROYAL DUKES AND PRINCESSES
OF THE FAMILY OF GEORGE THE THIRD.
A View of Court Life and Manners for Seventy Years,
1760-1830. By Percy Fitzgerald, M.A., author of “ The
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VoL. 8. JANUARY, 1883. No. i.

C: A. Cutter, General Editor.
F : Leypoldt, Managing Editor.

Communications for the exchanges^ and editors'

copies, should be addressed C: A. Cutter, Boston Ath-
eneeum, Boston, Mass.

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The Editors are not responsible for the views expressed
in contributed articles or communications, nor for the style
of spelling, capitalization, etc., in articles whose authors
request adherence to their own style.

Subscribers are entitled to advertise books wanted, or
duplicates for sale or exchange, at the nominal rate of
5 cents per line ( regular rate 15 cents) ; also to adver-
tise for situations or assistance to the extent of five lines
free of charge.

We print in this number two schemes for co-
operative indexing of current periodicals, one of
them for a monthly index to be included in the
card catalog, the other for an annual index to be
included in the printed quinquennial. We hope
both schemes will be carried out.

The magnificent success of the cooperative
band ably led by Mr. Poole justifies — nay, de-
mands— new expeditions. But his plan does
not meet a much felt want for current references.
There is full as much inquiry for the article
published “ a few months ago ” as for the one
published last year ; and the task of looking
over the files of unbound periodicals to ascer-
tain which one contained such and such a piece
is not the less tedious because it is frequently
repeated. The two proposals do not interfere
in the least with one another. Indeed they will
work together. There is no reason why the
libraries that write Mr. Stetson’s monthly cards
should not send one copy to Mr. Poole for his
annual list. The expense, which has been

spoken of as an objection, is no greater, so far
as writing the slips goes, for Mr. Stetson than
for Mr. Poole, and one writing will do for both.
All that Mr. Stetson’s plan demands beyond
this is the cost of printing by the hectograph
and of sending by mail, which will be repaid
half a dozen times over to the cooperating
libraries by the usefulness of the result. If
twenty libraries join, each taking two periodi-
cals, two hours’ work each month and 60 cents
postage (at the new two-cent rate) will give it an
index to forty of the most valuable monthlies
and quarterlies. A library must be very little
used not to find that a good bargain.

Now that the cooperative method has been
proved entirely practicable, it ought to be very
much extended. We American libraries are
proud of our work in the new index. But, after
all, have we a right to be proud as Americans ?
There are over 3000 libraries in the country, and
only 43 took part in this great work, by which
all are so much benefited. It is almost disgrace-
ful. And now that it is not necessarily a ques-
tion of taking a long set of a hundred volumes,
but a small library can afford real help by
taking one periodical for one year with a year
to do it in, the number of volunteers ought to be
greatly enlarged.

Last year there was a series of articles on the
Boston libraries in the Globe, in no. 6 of which
(Sept. 10) was the remarkable statement that
“ the libraries of Boston contain more volumes
in the aggregate [1,101,500] than do all the pub-
lic libraries of Great Britain, and there are more
books in the fourth largest library of this city
[State library 50.000] than are to be found in the
largest public library in the British Empire.” Mr.
E. C. Thomas would have something to say to
this ; for the result is arrived at by including
250,000 volumes in the libraries of Harvard
University, at Cambridge, among the Boston

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\ January, ’83.

libraries, and by excluding the British Museum,
“ owing to the peculiar circumstances governing
the use of the books.” It is fair enough to in-
clude the University libraries, one of which is in
Boston, and the others nearer the centre of the
city than the British Museum is to the London
Institution. But if this comparison is ever
quoted it should be with the distinct statement
that on the British side the British Museum,
which alone contains more volumes than all the
Boston libraries together, is left out. And even
then it should be noted that the result is obtained
by comparing all the not-private libraries of
Boston, public, proprietary, collegiate, club,
circulating, with only the technically “public”
libraries of England, excluding, that is, the pro-
prietary, club, college, and circulating. Now one
of the circulating libraries of London advertises
that its permanent stock exceeds a million of
volumes.

In Notes and queries for Oct. 7 we find the
following remarks on the report of the Cincinnati
Conference :

“ In reading attentively the many suggestive papers pre-
sented by members of both sexes, working amid very varied
local surroundings, we are struck alike with the much
greater personal interest which American librarians take in
the frequenters of their libraries, and with the more in-
quisitorial character of the attention which they pay to
the reading carried on by them. With regard to children
this may be well, and it does one good to read of the bright
faces of intelligent boys and girls when engaged in friendly
talk with the librarian. But the embodiment in a long
series of questions to be filled up by a librarian of a query
as to the character of a reader’s studies strikes us as open
to grave objections. In scarcely any case of an adult reader
can we conceive such a query to be of practical utility, and
it might very naturall}' give rise to extremely erroneous im-
pressions. The controversy as to the inclusion or exclusion
of fiction still rages, we perceive, and for aught we can see
is likely to go on raging until it dies a natural death, if only
it is permitted such a blessed end.”

Not knowing any American library which
makes inquisitorial investigations into the char-
acter of the reading of its adult patrons, and not
being able to recollect that any advice looking
to the establishment of an Inquisition was given
at Cincinnati, we were somewhat puzzled by this
criticism, till it occurred to us that Mr. Linder-
felt, in showing the various capabilities of his
system of charging, inserted In the list of twenty
possible questions to which it could give answers
{Lib. jnl., 7 : 1B2) :

19. What has been the character of a person’s
reading ?

The twenty questions were not meant to be

printed on a blank to be answered by the li-
brarian day b)r day in the regular course of his
work. Mr. Linderfelt merely wished to show
what he could do if any occasion should arise.
The same question could be answered by any of
the old ledger charging systems, but we never
heard of any impertinent interference by libra-
rians with their readers’ taste. Occasionally
some one will go to the old records to find what
Daniel Webster, or Edward Everett, or Charles
Sumner read when he was in college. Indeed,
if we remember right, there is the result of such
an inquiry in one of the lives of Byron. But we
can assure our English critic that the American
Library Association has no intention of setting
up the Confessional or the Inquisition, and that
the adult American has in his reading at public
libraries as much liberty as the American Young
Girl or male Young America.

COMMUNICATIONS.

POOLE'S INDEX.

To the Editor of the Library fournal :

In my report on the Index to Periodical Lit-
erature, made at the Cincinnati meeting of the
American Library Association in May last, I
stated that I should esteem it a favor to be in-
formed of any errors or omissions which may
be found in its pages ; for I had long since di-
vested myself of that pride of accuracy, which
imagines that such a work can be made and
printed without errors. Because I did not re-
peat this statement in my preface, the writer of
the notice of the Index in the Nation of Jan. 18
is, and perhaps others may be, in doubt whether
the notification of errors and lapses will be
esteemed a favor or otherwise. I beg, there-
fore, to repeat here what was stated in my re-
port, and to say that the editors have been es-
pecially solicitous that the references should be
free from errors, and have spared no labor and
care to render them so. Contributions to its er-
rata will be thankfully received, and omissions
will be Included in the next supplement.

W. F. Poole.

ERR A TA ET CORRIGENDA.

I SUGGEST the addition to the Library journal
of a department of Errata et Corrigenda. This
would involve some labor, but it would be help-
ful in many ways.

Many books of high reputation contain typo-
graphical or other mistakes which the ordinary
reader may not detect or have the means of cor-
recting.

I would propose to include only important
works and to confine the corrections to those
whose existence and rectification would not be
apparent to a reader of ordinary intelligence.

In Dr. Hurst’s Bibliotheca theologica, just

January, ’83.]

THE LIBRARY JOURNAL,

issued, I find on page 136, Hamburg, where, of
course, intelligent persons will read Hanbury.
Albert Barnes, in his commentary, speaking of
the miracle at Cana, quotes Pliny on the subject
of wine, and refers his reader to Book IV.,
chap. 13. A classical friend of mine says that
the passage referred to does not contain any-
thing about wine. Most persons will accept his
citation without question.

It is within the proper sphere of librarians to
correct such errors in books under their care,
and of the Library journal to disseminate the
knowledge of them. John Edmands.

[If our friends will send us notes of such
emendations as they discover we will publish
them from time to time, when enough have ac-
cumulated to justify a departmental heading. —
Eds.]

SCHEME FOR ANNUAL INDEXES TO
PERIODICAL LITERATURE.

In accordance with the announcement in the
preface of the late issue of the “ Index to Peri-
odical Literature,” supplements prepared on
the same cooperative method, with the same
rules and conditions, and printed in a style uni-
form with that edition, will be issued every five
years— the first appearing early in the year
1887, and containing the references for the years
1882-1886. It is the intention of the editors to
enlarge considerably the list of current periodi-
cals, and to include such older serials as are
worthy of being indexed and have been omitted.
The editors will be glad to receive from the
former contributors and other librarians who
are willing to participate in the work, sugges-
tions as to serials which they think it desirable
to index.

In addition to the announcement made above,
the editors are proposing, if they have sufficient
encouragement, to issue in April, 1884, an in-
dex covering the years 1882 and 1883, and there-
after Annual Indexes. They take this oppor-
tunity to set forth the scheme as it now pre-
sents itself to their minds, and to ask of their
brethren in the library profession its consider-
ation, and such suggestions for improving it
as will enable them to fix upon the plan which
shall be most practicable and satisfactory to the
libraries of the country.

It is not probable that annual indexes will
repay in money the cost of their publication,
and hence no publisher can be expected to as-
sume the expense. It is certain that the mul-
tiplicity of alphabets in annual indexes would
be a great annoyance. Their adoption as per-
manent substitutes for the five-year supplements
is, therefore, out of the question. It is very
desirable, nevertheless, that the contents of the
current periodicals shall be indexed and made
accessible oftener than once in five years. So
important to readers and students are the topics
discussed in them, that many libraries are in-
curring the labor and expense of indexing them

on cards. The cdperative plan of making
hectographic copies and interchanging cards
between different libraries is attended with
much trouble, and under no conditions can it
cover so broad a field as is desirable. In order
to meet this want in a more economical and
satisfactory manner, the editors propose the fol-
lowing scheme ;

1. To issue the annual indexes in a ‘privately
printed edition, to be supplied only to the co-
operating libraries, and such other libraries and
individuals as subscribe for them in advance of
publication. No more copies will be printed
than will meet this condition ; and hence none
will be offered for sale.

2. The expense of printing will be equitably
shared by the contributing libraries and the sub-
scribers— the latter paying, in any event, twice
as much for their copies as the contributors,
and if they are twice as numerous as the con-
tributors, they will pay the whole expense.

3. The editors will make no charge for their
services in the revision and arrangement of the
work, and superintendence of the printing, but
will be entitled to the use of the matter for their
five-year supplements.

4. On the year when a five-year supplement

is issued there will be no annual supplement, as
the references of the preceding year will be in-
corporated in that issue. The annual issues
not being regarded as the regular supplements
of the main work, they will be printed on a
smaller page. W. F. Poole.

W. 1. Fletcher.

COOPERATIVE INDEXING OF CURRENT
PERIODICALS.

It may be of interest to many librarians to
learn of a cooperative scheme of indexing cur-
rent periodicals. I will outline it briefly.

1. Each of the cooperating libraries will index
one or more periodicals, each number as it ap-
pears.

2. The same rules will be observed as in
Poole’s Index, with this addition — the month
and year will be added to facilitate reference to
unbound numbers. Also American paging will
be given if English editions are not accessible,
marked with a for distinction.

3. As most (probably all) libraries will want
the entries on cards or slips, each library will
print the separate references by the hektograph
on slips 5X12J cm. (the standard size) and mail
them to each of the cooperating libraries.

As to details of printing, I am not altogether
satisfied what method is better— to print each
slip separately, or to print in sheets of (say)
eight slips. In the former case I make my
“copy” on paper 20 cm, wide in two columns.
It will not do to put all the copy on the hekto-
graph at one time, and print the requisite num-
ber of slips from each reference ; the latter ones
become faint. I should say only two or three
references should be put on the hektograph at
one time. The time required for printing 300

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[/a?iuafy^ ’83.

slips (20 slips for each of 15 references) would
be about 45 minutes (I printed 300 thin slips in
30 minutes). By ruling off a sheet into (say) 8
spaces, 5x12,5 cm., and writing references in
these spaces, and printing 8 slips in a sheet at
once, and cutting the sheets afterward, I think
that the time would be lessened. Experience
might sjjjow some other method to be more con-
venient than either of these.

_ The above details are the result of my own
experience and of the suggestions of others, es-
pecially Mr. Biscoe, of Amherst College, Rev. J.
H. Barbour, of Trinity College, and Mr. Geo. F.
Winchester, of Middletown, Ct., with whose en-
couragement I have been trying to inaugurate
some such scheme. It was our intention to be-
gin where Poole’s Index leaves off. But his
annual supplement will make that unnecessary,
so that we shall begin probably with Jan., 1883,

I should be pleased to hear from any one in-
terested in this matter, especially from those de-
siring to index one periodical or more for 1883
— most especially, however, from any man or
body of men who will take the matter in charge
and relieve me of it.

List of librarians who have announced their
intention of cooperating with me : Mr. Biscoe,
Amherst College ; Rev. Mr. Barbour, Trinity
College; Mr. Cutler, Boston Athenaeum ; Mr.
Green, Worcester Public Library ; Mr. Foster,
Providence Public Library ; Prof. Safford,
Williams College.

W. K. Stetson,

Assistant Librarian Wesleyan University,
Middletown, Conn.

STANDARD COVERS FOR TEMPORARY
BINDING.

By B; Pickman Mann, Bibliographical Editor
of Psyche.

The vast majority of octavo books and pam-
phlets are 23 or 24 centimetres high. An un-
classified list, taken from 150 consecutive en-
tries in my accession book, shows that 2 per
cent are 21 cm., high, 7 per cent 22cm., 41 per
cent 23 cm. 39 per cent [24 cm., and ii per
cent 25 cm.

In the temporary binding of pamphlets and
papers it would be a great convenience to have
the holes which are made in the papers placed
at a previously determined and standard distance
apart, so that transfers could be made at will,
without the necessity of making new holes in
the papers. Punched sheets, also, for shelf-
lists, sermons, and other purposes, could be pur-
chased ready-made at the stores, if these stand-
ard measurements were adopted ; and especially
it would be of advantage if the “ Library binder”
were made to conform to these measurements,
while the “ Russell’s common-sense” and the
‘‘ Emerson,” though needing but two holes, could
as well require these holes to occupy positions
similar to the ones required for the other binders,
as to conform, as seems to be the case, to no
fixed rule.

I have looked through the indexes of my
Library journal, 6 v., since working out a
system for my own use, in the expectation of
finding some word on this subject, but in vain.
The nearest approach to it, and the occasion
when it would have been most appropriate, is
in Mr. F. B. Perkins’ note entitled; ‘‘Transfer-
able book-covers,” L. j.. May 1881, 5 : 146.

My system concerns only pamphlets and
papers from 22 to 25 cm. high. Other systems
would be appropriate for smaller and for larger
pamphlets.

The papers are made to rest on their lower
edges. The lowest hole is 2.5 cm. [i inch] above
this, the second hole 5 cm. [2 inches] above the
first, the third hole 8.5 above the second, and the
fourth hole 5 cm. above the third. The holes
are to be used in pairs. A cord is passed through
them from the front to the back of the volume,
so that the free ends of the cords ail hang
out at the back of the book. The cord is to be
passed first through the front cover and then
through the papers. If additions are to be made
only at the end of the book they can be strung
on the cord as they are added without disturbing
the papers previously bound. If it is desired to
add title-pages or other matter at the beginning
of the book, or nearer the front than the back,
provision can be made for that by having
separate cords in each hole, and having them
joined by bow-knots both in front and behind.
A standard distance of 5 cm. between the two
holes of each pair allows the use of strips of
wood, metal, or pasteboard, of uniform size, to
bear the wear of the cord at each pair of holes
separately if covers are not used. I hardly need
dwell upon the advantages of having the two
pairs of holes alike in measurement. The par-
ticular measurement proposed, 5 cm. or 2 inches,
accords with both the English and the metric
systems.

The lower hole should be near the lower edge
of the papers, to support them better than if it
was more distant. Experience has shown that
the distance should not be more than 3 cm., nor
less than 2 cm., as the lower margins of pam-
phlets are not always trimmed so that a hole
made less than 2 cm. from the bottom would
pass through all the pages. The distance 2.5
cm. accords with both the English and metric
systems of measurement.

The upper hole should not be less than i cm.
distant from the top of the paper, which is its
distance in papers 22 cm. high, and yet should be
as near the top as permissible, being near enough
when it is 4 cm. distant in papers 25 cm. high.

I propose, therefore, as standard measure-
ments, 2.5, 7.5, 16 and 21 cm. from the lower
edge of the temporary covers and of the pam-
phlets.

P. S. — I will add that as less than 2 per cent
of the books in a library are 26 cm. high, the
measurements for an octavo pamphlet may well
be adopted for these. For pamphlets from 27
to 31 cm. high, the measurements may be 2.5,
7.5, 21 and 26 cm. ; for the still rarer pamphlets
from 17 to 21 cm., the measurements 2.5, 7.5,

January, ’83.]

THE LIBRARY JO C/RIVAL.

II and 16. By these measurements it is possi-
ble, on special occasions, to intercalate a pam-
phlet among those to which, from its size, it
does not belong.

LIBRARIES AND POLITICS.

A Western librarian writes us : “I was very
glad to see your comments upon the change of
librarians in Indiana and Michigan, and trust
you will not drop the matter entirely. The
State of Ohio has a fine library of about 60,000
volumes, of which much could be made. Un-
fortunately, the librarian is changed every time
a new governor is elected. The evil has not
been so great as might have been anticipated,
because the library has been practically in charge
of a permanent and capable assistant. 'I he pres-
ent librarian has, however (properly, so far as
I know), shown a disposition to manage things
himself, and I understand that there is, or has
been, some trouble. But the next administra-
tion is sure to appoint a new librarian before the
present one has fully learned the duties of his
office. It seems to me that you will confer a
great boon upon many of our Western States if
you can induce them to place their libraries in
charge of a board of trustees similar to that of
New York, with such permanent tenure of office
as to remove any temptation to make political
appointments. — Nation^ Dec. 21.

[Gov. Begole, the new Governor of Michigan,
we are glad to learn, though making a clean
sweep in other offices, has sensibly and
firmly resisted the pressure on him for the re-
moval of Mrs. Tenney. She was renominated
(for two years), and the Senate promptly con-
firmed her, to the great satisfaction of all who
care for the library. Eds. Lib. jnl.]

“ Encyclopaedia ” a comparative table of the
number of libraries exceeding 100,000 at the two
periods :

1857.

1882.

No. of Libraries.

Volumes in Thou-

sands.

No. of Libraries, j

Volumes in Thou-

1 sands.

Great Britain

1.413

3,296

France

1,801

4,528

Germany

4,289

11,349

Austria

780

1,744

Italy

2,431

4,162

America

2,30s

The rest of the world....

1,950

6,518

12,664

147

33,902

The ten principal libraries were, in

1857. ^ Vols.

Imperial Library,

Paris 815,000

British Museum,

London 562,000

Imperial Library,

St. Petersburg... 519,500
Royal Library, Ber-
lin 500,000

Royal Library, ’Mu-
nich- 480,000

Royal Library, Co-
penhagen 408,000

Imperial Library,

Vienna 365,000

University Library,

Gottingen 360,000

University Library,

Breslau 350,000

Royal Library,

Dresden 305,000

1882. Vols.

Imperial Library,

Paris 2,290,000

British Museum,

London 1,500,000

Imperial Library,

St. Petersburg. . 1,000,000

Royal Library,

Munich 1,000,000

Royal Library,

Berlin (?) 750,000

University Libr’y^

Strassburg 513,000

University Libr’y^

Leipzig 500,000

Grand-ducM Lib’y^

Darmstadt 500,000

Royal Library,

Copenhagen.... 482,000
Imperial Library,

Vienna 440,000

C: A. C.

LIBRARY STATISTICS.*

The statistics of the chief libraries of the
world, with which it closes, are the most satis-
factory portion. They are brought down to the
latest time, and Messrs. Tedder and Thomas’s
success in previous efforts of this kind makes it
certain that they are trustworthy. Perhaps their
work will repress for a time the erratic exuber-
ance of the newspapers in this regard. Every
one who is interested in the subject must have
noticed the continual appearance of items on the
number of volumes in the chief libraries, founded
on the statistics sometimes of the last decade,
sometimes of the last century, and sometimes of
a distant future. At the risk of starting a new
family of such paragraphs, and seeing statements
which are true in 1882 repeated in 1892 or in
1902, when they will have been entirely falsified
by the prodigious growth of libraries, we have
prepared from the 8th and the 9th editions of the

* Part of a notice of the article “ Libraries,” in the Ency-
clopaedia Britannica, v. 14; from the Nation^ Oct. 19.

MORE CRUDITIES OF THE CHEAP
CATALOGER.

“Canterbury has just issued a catalogue
of its Municipal Free Library which is quite
unique in its blunders. A local journal de-
scribes its vagaries. Horatii is described as being
by Flacci ; Virgilii, by Maronis ; Shak-
speare’s plays (under the heading of ‘ Fiction ’)
are stated to be written by Edmund Malone ;
Thackeray’s works (among the essays), by A.
Pendennis and H. Esmond, as well as by him-
self. Ainsworth’s ‘ Tower of London ’ is placed
among the guide-books ; of ‘ Robinson Crusoe ’
among the biographies ; Knight’s ‘ Old Printer ’
among fiction ; Wellington’s Despatches, Venn’s
‘ Duty of Man,’ and Vince’s ‘ Conic Sections ’
among manners and customs ; Thomson’s
‘ Seasons ’ among the sundries, etc. Babbage
is spelt ‘Baggage,’ and so on. These are
only a few of the blunders taken haphazard
from a hundred others not less ludicrous.’’ —
A thenceum.

THE LIBRARY JOURNAL.

\Januaryy ’83.

JLitratB iEconorng aiilt l^istorg.

Ames, J. G., Spofford, A. K., and Baird,
Spencer F. Report regarding the publication
and distribution of public documents, sub-
mitted in compliance with a resolution of the
H. of R,, adopted Aug. 8, 1882. Wash., 1882,
66 p. O.

An important report, followed by a tabula-
ted statement of the documents ordered by the
46th and the ist session of the 47th Congress, a
compilation of the present laws, and a proposed
bill and resolutions, framed with the view of es-
tablishing a single distributing agency, of in-
suring the delivery of complete sets to perma-
nent depositories, of reducing the number printed,
and of providing for convenient sale of docu-
ments.

Gennari, a. Progetto di raccogliere tutti gli
oggetti appartenenti all’ Ariosto in una sala
della Biblioteca di Ferrara. Ferrara, stabil.
Bresciani, 1882. ii p. 8^

From the Gazzetta ferrarese^ Nov. 5, 6, 1881.
Hubbard, James M. [Letter, dated Nov. 9.]
n. p., n. d. 4 p. O.

A review of the controversy on the character
of the fiction in the Boston Public Library and a
reiteration of the statement that the Library con-
tains unsuitable books.

An article in the Transcript of Dec. 14 pro-
poses that the objectionable fiction and juveniles
should be divided “into small libraries to be
placed in the various school-houses. The teach-
ers could then have an oversight over the chil-
dren’s reading, and could restrict them to, say, a
volume a week. These libraries might be ex-
changed every few months, and fresh books
might be continually added.’’

Libraries in churches. (In Notes and q., 6th
s., 6 : 258, 9.)

The Bulletin de la Socictd de V Histoire de Paris
(18S2. no. 3) contains some curious documents
concerning the dispersion (1642-52) of Maza-
rin’s library during the Fronde.

The Libraries of Babylonia and Assyria, [by] .
a member of the Society of Biblical Archreolo-
gy. 1. (In Knowledge , Nov. 24.) if col.
Prime, Wendell, D.D. The Bodleian Library,
[account of a visit]. (In Observer^ N. Y.,

' Dec. 14.) 2 col.

The Public Schools Library. {\w Spectator, St.
Louis, Dec. 16.) I col.

Advocates dropping the subscription feature
and making the library a public free library ; but
thinks that the change should be very cautiously
made. “ Few persons know how expensive a
thing a library is to run and how easy it is to
seriously impair its usefulness.’’

St. Louis, taking this into account perhaps,
has decided that it cannot afford a public li-
brary.

Sunday-school libraries. (In Sunday-School

Times, Nov. ii.)

Another sensible article, brought out by the
question of a correspondent who says :

“ ‘ Our teachers contemplate adding books to
the library, and doing it so gradually that every
book shall be carefully read and passed upon by a
competent committee. Will you please outline in
your columns a plan for the selection of books,
which has proved valuable in other schools. By
so doing you will probably confer a favor on
other schools besides ours, which have found
that poor books will be accepted when five hun-
dred or a thousand volumes are selected and
passed upon at one time. Even the author’s
name is not a guarantee that a book is a suitable
one.’

“ One indispensable prerequisite to the secur-
ing of a good Sunday-school library is an un-
derstanding of the kind of books wanted in that
library. And the recognition of this prerequi-
site is one of the rarest things in the Sunday-
school field. What kind of books do you want
in your Sunday-school library ? ‘ Oh ! we want

good books.’ What do you mean by good books ?
‘ Why, we want books that the children will like,
and that will do them good.’ Well, but that is
no description of books. That raises a question
of opinion, rather than of fact. Do you want
only books of fiction, or no books of fiction ?
or what proportion of books of fiction, and what
proportion of books of fact? Do you want only
books that stale religious truths, or that illustrate
Christian doctrine ? or do you want also books
which simply state facts in God’s realm of
nature, and in God’s dealings with men in his-
tory ? Do you approve of story-books which
give prominence to love and courtship, if only
there is a religious smack to the conversations
introduced ? Do you want books suited for
Sunday reading? or books also for week-day
reading? Until all these questions, and a score
like them, can be answered with positiveness by
those who are responsible for the scholar’s read-
ing, any attempt to secure ‘good ’ books for the
library, is the merest sham. Until you know
what you mean by a ‘ good book ’ for the li-
brary, how can you expect a committee to find
out what you mean, and conform to it? What
nonsense it would be for you to send out a new
servant to market, with no more specific orders
than that for his purchases, ‘ Go and get some
food for my children ’ ? ‘ What kind of food ? ’

‘ Oh ! good food.’ ‘ But what do you mean by
good food?’ ‘Why, good food, of course.
Safe food ; palatable food ; nourishing food.’
‘Yes, but that which is safe and palatable and
nourishing for one person is not so for another.
Would you like meats or vegetables, or both ?
If both, what kinds of each? Would you like
beef ? pork ? mutton ? veal ? potatoes ? cabbage ?
beans? tomatoes? What do you think is best
suited to your children ? You know them better

Jiuiuary, ’83.]

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than I do.’ ‘ Oh ! I don’t want to be tied down
to details of that sort. Get good things. Fill
up the larder off-hand. If I don’t like what you
get, I will scold about it. I shall have my eye
on what you have bought, and be ready to com-
plain if it doesn’t suit me. ’ That is about the
way with the Average Sunday-school leader.
That is the croaker’s style of comment on the
work of library committees generally. To begin
with, know what you want. That is four fifths
of the whole matter. Then get what you want.
It is to be had. There is no lack of any kind
of book that you can describe. But there is no
such thing — there never was, and there never
will be — as ‘ a good Sunday-school library book.’
Whenever that is spoken of, you know there
is gross carelessness, stupid ignorance, or wil-
ful deception, on the part of the person who
tells of it. Of course you cannot find out what
a book is merely by seeing its publisher’s name,
or its author’s name, or its illustrations, or type,
or binding. The book must be read by some
one who knows what kind of a book is wanted,
and whether this book is one of that sort. Your
committee must be large enough for this, intelli-
gent enough for this, and must take time enough
for this. Whoever reads a book for the purpose
of testing it ought to report the aim, purport, and
character of the book, rather than report whether
it is a ‘good book’ or not. It is all right to
have all the teachers hunting for books which
they think will answer, and calling attention to
them. But when these books are examined, the
question must be, in every instance, ‘ What is
this book?’ not, ‘Is this a “good” book?’
Without attention to these main points, all talk
about committees of ladies, and committees of
examination, is — humbug.”

T., S. The Bancroft library, San Francisco.

(In Ev'g post, N. Y., Dec. 30.) ij col.

Abstracts of and extracts from Reports,

Harvard Univ. L. “ The rows of classical
philology as arranged include the subjects My-
thology, Inscriptions, Miscellany, Bibliography,
and Literary history, Greek and Roman arts
and sciences. Prosody, and Greek and Roman
philosophy. The Greek and Latin authors fol-
low immediately.”

The use on Sunday (i to 5 p.m.) has increased.
Mr. Scudder, Assistant Librarian (and member
of the A. L. A. Cooperation Committee), has
left the library to lake the editorship of Science.
The revision of the public subject catalogue has
been nearly completed, the main headings re-
duced nearly one third in number, and an alpha-
betical subject-reference catalogue of all head-
ings and subdivisions, both present and pro-
spective (about 5000), prepared on slips with a
view to ultimate publication.

We may call attention here to Mrs. Oliphant’s
sketch of the heavenly library in her “Little
pilgrim” in Macmillan’s mag.. Sept., 1882, p.
341-345 ; reprinted Boston, Roberts, 1882.

iJitliografj).

Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft. Ge-
sammt-Catalogder Bibliothek, vom Bibliothe-
kar Reinhold Kohler. (Pages 53-82 of their
Shakespeare Jahrbuch, Beilage zu Bd. 17,
Weimar, 1882, 8^)

Dufour, Vabbd Valentin. Bibliographie artis-
tique, historique, et litteraire de Paris, annee
1789. Paris, Laporte, 1882. 7-1-324 -t- 14 p.

80.

Gaidoz, H:, and Sebillot, Paul. Bibliog.
des traditions et de la litterature populaire de
r Alsace. Strassb., Noiriel, 1882.

Rep. from Polybiblion. Contains the titles of
about 40 books and 70 articles in periodicals.

Geological record for 1878 ; an account of the
works on geology, mineralogy, and palae-
ontology, pub. during the year, with suppl.
for 1874-7 ; ed. by W. Whitaker and W. H.
Dalton. London, Taylor and Francis, 1882.
31-1-496 p. 8”. Subscription price loj-. M.
The notes are brief and to the point. 3530
nos., 850 more than in any of the previous four
volumes.

Gomme, G : Laurence. Bibliography of folk-
lore publications in English. A, B. (Pages
55-80 Folk-lore record, v. 5. 1882,)

To be continued. Calls for additions and
corrections.

Hartford L. Assoc. Bulletin. Vol. 5, no. i.
Hartford, Jan. i, 1883. 10 p. O.

Contains a note on “English and American
history for children,” from MissHewins’s fqrth-
coming “ Books for the young.”

Hildeburn, C: R. List of the issues of the
press in Pennsylvania, 1735-59. (Pages 75-
100 of Phila. Lib. Co. Bulletin, Jan.)

Hutt, a. Granger. La Rochefoucauld and his
English translators. (Pages 166-171 of Bibli-
ographer, Nov. 1882.)

Lama, C; de. Bibliotheque des ecrivains de la
Congregation d^ Saint-Maur. Paris. Palme,
1882. 261 p. 12'’. 5 fr.

Leist, Dr. F: Urkundenlehre : Katechismus der
Diplomatik, Palaographie, Chronologie, und
Sphragistik. Lpz., J. J. Weber, 1882. 12 -f-

305 p+io plates. 8°. 4 m. (Illustrirte Kate-
chismen.)

The materials employed by the scribes of the
middle ages, the styles of writing at various
epochs, the conventional forms of address, the
numerous methods of computing dates, the dif-
ferent varieties of seals, etc., are all described

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{January, ’83.

in a systematic and accurate manner. The il-
lustrations consist of folded tables of fac-similes
of chrisms, monograms, and signatures of Ger-
man monarchs and notable persons taken from
original documents in the Royal Archives at
Munich. — Monthly notes.

Reviewed not favorably in Deutsche Litztg.,
col. 1825, “ Angehende Archivbeamte sowol wie
junge Historiker miissen gewarnt werden ihre
dipiomatischen Kenntnisse allein aus diesem
Katechismus zu schopfen.”

Le Petit, Jules. Bibliographie des Editions
originales d’auteurs fran5ais du 15® au 18®
siecle. Paris, E. Maillet, 1882. 8°. 50 fr.

Contains an exact reproduction of the title-
pages of the original editions of about 300
masterpieces of French literature, from the
Roman de la Rose and Villon to the works of
Beaumarchais and Saint-Pierre. The form is
that of Brunet’s Manuel du libraire. Gives
the necessary information with regard to the
original editions and their market value.
Philobiblos,/j-. The book-lover’s enchiridion ;
thoughts on the solace and companionship
of books, selected and chronologically ar-
ranged. London, Simpkin, Marshall & Co.,
1882. 240 p. 32“. 4s. 6d. ; 5s. 6.

“ The selection is very catholic. Somebody
should give us next a hook-hater' s enchiridion,
beginning with Solomon.”— Acad.

Providence Public Library. Monthly refer-
ence lists. Vols. I and 2. Jan., 1881-Dec.,
1882. [Ed. by W; E. Foster, A.B., Brown
University.] O.

“ A graduate of Brown University, Mr. Fos-
ter, early turned his attention to the practical de-
tails of a librarian’s office in a Massachusetts
town, whence he was called by sharp-sighted
men, who saw the advantage of his methods, to
the Public library in Providence, to mediate
between the intellectual wants of a highly culti-
vated city and the literary supply which libra-
ries and book markets afford. The trustees of
the Providence Public Library, some of whom
are the owners of superb private libraries, ap-
pear to have appreciated the idea that the col-
lection and distribution of literature, in a wide
sense, requires talent on the part of the librarian,
the very best talent that school, college, and
practical experience can afford. They seem to
have recognized the fact that a public library is
the highest school in the community, that it re-
quires the highest education and the highest art
available ; for the public library reaches not
merely school children, but pupils of a larger
growth ; it holds in its hands the highest educa-
tion of the town or city. Ignorance, incompe-
tence, feebleness, sluggishness, incapacity for
success in any other profession, are no qualifica-
tion for the modern librarian, who is or should
be one of the quickest, readiest, brightest, most
alive of all live men in the community, for he is
the one who can supply and develop its highest

intellectual wants by proper methods of media-
tion between literature and life.

“ It is perhaps highly significant that a college
town like Providence, whence Dr. Barnas Sears,
a former president of Brown University, went
forth to propagate a common school system
throughout the entire South, under the direction
of the trustees of the Peabody Education Fund,
of which Dr. Sears was the pioneer agent, should
have also given birth to one of the most efficient
systems of library management, which, if there
is any virtue in good ideas, is bound to widen its
influence. The efficiency of the Providence
Public library in supplying intellectual wants is
indicated by the published reference lists, the
genesis of which cannot be separated from
Brown University, the common school system,
and the general culture of a liberally minded
city. Mr. Foster, although he came to Provi-
dence with a thorough knowledge of that ad-
mirable system of classifying library materials
for ready reference on the part of readers — a
system evolved from the experience of the Bos-
ton Public Library under the management of
Justin Winsor — found it necessary to meet in
peculiar ways the needs of teachers and students
who desired to read very specially in connection
with courses of lectures given by President Rob-
inson, Professors Lincoln and others, including
the late Professor Diman, whose catholic schol-
arship, admired in Baltimore and Cambridge,
was also appreciated at home. The cordial co-
operation of such men with Mr. Foster’s me-
thods, the encouragement of trustees intimately
associated with University professors, the wants
and appreciation of an intelligent public, ex-
plain the development in Providence of that
elaborate system of reference lists, newspaper
clippings, notices and reviews of new books,—
all conveniently posted or classified, so that by
means of these guides the reader can find his
way with confidence and delight through the
intricate mazes of modern literature. From
manuscript reference lists it was but a step to
hectograph copies distributed for use in the pub-
lic schools Then came the publication of bib-
liographies in the Providence newspapers, which
carried the suggestion of systematic courses of
readings into every household in the city. These
things are all very simple and inexpensive ; but
they represent ideas, which are of vastly more
influence upon a living and progressive age than
mere collections of books, however extensive,
of mere library buildings of brick and stone,
which are sometimes mausoleums instead of la-
boratories of knowledge.

“ Through the aid of appreciative friends of
the Providence idea, Mr. Foster began in Janu-
ary, 1881, to publish his Monthly reference lists
in serial form upon a folded sheet, the two
leaves of which with double columns, are of
about the same size as the pages of the Magazine
of American history. The transition to this
special form of publication was made through
such organs as the Library journal which allows
some space to bibliographical matter. But the
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needs has now assumed individual and concrete
form. Evolving from the Providence environ-
ment, this idea has seized upon topics of current
interest in that city ; it has grown upon what it
has fed ; until now, in the shape of two pub-
lished volumes, -with tables of contents, indices,
and an explanatory preface, it represents a bib-
liographical magazine which no American li-
brary or special student of contemporary Ameri-
can life can well do without. It is curious and
interesting to one who turns the leaves of these
two little volumes, to see with what unerring
instinct the Providence librarian, from month to
month, has grasped topics uppermost in the
American current of ideas or popular discussion.
A few examples will suffice to recall the drift of
thought in many a home and literary circle duj-
ing the past two years : George Eliot, Thomas
Carlyle, Lord Beaconsfield, Revision of the
Bible, Sophocles (‘ the Greek Play ’ at Harvard),
Comets, the French in Tunis, Dean Stanley,
Centenary of Kant, Protection, Yorktown,
Olympia, French Allies, Inter-Oceanic Canal,
.^stheticism, Longfellow, Chinese Question,
South Eastern Europe, Darwin, Emerson, Uni-
versity Education, Local Self-Government, Her-
bert Spencer, etc.

“ It takes a librarian who is alive to present
issues, to the swiftly moving and cosmopolitan
thought of the present age, to catch such current
topics, and to gather about them the floating lit-
erature of our times for the convenient use of
his fellow men. Such talent is as rare as it is
invaluable. A good librarian is an organizer of
literary materials, and his influence is far from
being local, if he publishes, as Mr. Foster has
done, the results of his local experience. It is
curious to observe how the supply of Providence
wants has met also the needs of a national circle
of readers ; for the reference lists are now wide-
ly patronized throughout this country, especially
by students, teachers and librarians. It is also
curious to note, in this current of popular biblio-
graphy, the ‘ survival ’ of lists which, although
of suflicient scope to interest studebts outside ef
Providence, are clearly the original production
of local occasions, lecture courses and the like,
which, at one time or another, have particularly
interested the schools and people of Providence.

“ The most noticeable and perhaps the most
valuable feature of Mr. Foster’s reference lists
is the topical subdivision of the main subject.
For a student or teacher, the ‘ structural biblio-
graphy ’ is much more valuable and suggestive
than a long list of authorities, which, in some
cases, would be hardly better than a catalogue.
For example, the subject of American ‘ Local
Self-Government ’ is much better treated under
the subdivisions of ‘Origin,’ ‘Tendencies,’
‘ New England Towns,’ ‘ Middle Colonies,’
‘Southern Colonies,’ than under the main head
alone, for the structural method presents the
subject from different points of view, and yet as
an organic whole. This structural method
stands in the same relation to the generic subject
of study as that subject does to study in general.
A catalogue of mere names or a long bibliogra-

phy of authorities is often very discouraging to
readers, but when attention is called to a pariicti-
lar subject, to a special point of view, and to an
individual author, then a point has been made
for the encouragement of readers and of original
research. The most important function which
any catalogue, bibliography, reference list, or
consulting librarian can discharge, is to arrest
attention, to make mental points. Mr. Foster
distinctly says in his preface that his reference
lists ‘are intended as ivor king-lists and not as
bibliographies.’ He does not aim at being ex-
haustive, or exhausting, but as being suggestive.
Mr. Foster has well said in the Library journal
(7 : 86), the bibliography ‘ aims at completeness
for the sake of completeness ; ’ but the working-
list is as complete as it serves its purpose to
be.’ The purpose of Mr. Foster is manifestly
that of a practical librarian, desiring to aid a
reading public, and not that of a scientific special-
ist, a mere antiquarian bibliomaniac, desiring
to collect or amass all existing authoiities for the
sake of having them at his command.

“ Scientific in the description of books,
monographs, magazine articles is of more con-
sequence to most readers than bibliographical
enumeration or catalogue completeness. A
reader does not want all books ; he wants the
best, and more especially one or two at a time,
with special reference to partjcular things that
may be found within them. A skilful librarian
and a well-guided reader will not find it neces-
sary to read many books through, from begin-
ning to end, in order to get at their point or
drift. Most books should be used like cyclo-
paedias, for finding special things, not for learn-
ing all knowledge at once. A good book should
have an index of topics. A good librarian, like
Mr. Foster and many others in this country,
will show the reader a subject-catalogue, a
ready-reference-list, a definite way of finding out
special things through some particular book. A
poor librarian will be more likely to show his
library en masse or in glass cases, saying ‘ hands
off ; ’ if the visitor wants to learn something in
particular, he is invited to examine a confusing
catalogue of authors’ names and see if he can
chance upon any book that will help him. The
good librarian knows what his books are good
for ; he has point. The poor librarian is care-
less, ignorant and dull. A good method of
ready reference is like a bright, sharp needle in
a skilful hand, deftly working some fine or use-
ful end ; a poor method is like hunting for a
needle in a haystack.” — Herbert B. Adams,
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, in the
N. E. hist, andgeneal. register y
Short, J: T. Historical reference lists for the

use of students in the Ohio State University.

Columbus, O., A. H. Smythe, 1882. D. pap.,

40 c.

“The lists are as full as the resources of the
Stale library would admit.” — Prefatory note.

SoRMANNi, Giacomo. Catalogo ragionato delle

opere di viticoltura ed enologia pub. in Italia o

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{January.^ ’83.

in ilaliano dal principio della stampa sino a
tutto I’anno 1881. la dispensa. Milano,
Gernia, 1882. 16 p. 8®.

Theden, Dietrich. Fiihrer durch die Jugend-
literatur, Winke fiir Griindung, Einrichtung,
u. Fortfiihrung einschlagiger Bibliotheken u.
Verzeichniss empfehlenswerther Schriften.
Hamb., Berendsohn, 1883. 3 l+yg p. 1,50 m.

Heinem Ann’s Faust bibliography (Ltb.jnl., 7 :
276) is also reprinted, L., Stock, 1882. pp. 31.
16°.

The Russian bibliography, the publication of
which was suspended last March, will reappear
this year.

Dr. A. Schroeter’s “ Geschichteder deutsch-
en Homer-Uebersetzung im 18. Jahrhundert”
(Jena, Costenoble) contains a tabular view of
the translations of Homer issued between 1495
and 1881.

The Archivio paleografico italiano, has just
issued its first no., ed. by Sig. E. Monaci, and
pub. by Loescher & Co., of Rome. It contains
fourteen heliotype plates, reproducing in fac-
simile various documents of importance for the
history of writing in Italy. — Acad.

Catalogs and cataloging.

Brooklyn (N. Y.) L. Bulletin of new books.
No. 16. [Br.,] Jan. -Aug., 1882. ii+[i] p.

1. O.

Total no. of v. 64,400.

Brooklyn L. Music bulletin. No. i. [Br.,]
1882. [4] p. 1. O.

A new departure. “ The music is intended,
like books, for circulation.”

Germany. Reichsgericht. Katalog der Bib-
liothek, \on K. Schulz. Lpz., Breitkopf &
Hartel, 1882. 65-I-1037 p. 8°. 15 m.

How to compile a library catalogue. (In Brit-
ish and colonial printer and stationer, Dec. 14.)
if col.

Milk for babes, and very thin milk. The re-
marks on printing are the best: ‘‘The expense
of printing a catalogue containing two entries
for each book, as is now recommended, would
be about for 500 copies, and for 250 cop-
ies. A catalogue in which the books are only
entered once would cost, for 500 copies about
and for 250 copies ^2 los. As far as most
libraries are concerned, it is to be recommended
that the larger number should be printed, even
although not more than 100 copies are likely to
be sold. A loss is inevitable in any case. But
this first outlay may be turned into an ultimate
gain. If the library is in its infancy, its future
proportions may be greater than its present
managers anticipate. One promising method of
extending it would be to distribute the catalogue
pretty freely. Some copies might go among

probable donors of books ; there is almost a
certainty that some at least of the extra expense
would be recouped in gifts. Other copies might
be sent to publishers, authors, secretaries of
publishing societies, etc., and that there would
be returns in the shape of presents could hardly
be doubted. Other copies might be sent to the
press, and notices might be obtained, which wOuld
in various ways be beneficial. Many other
reasons might be adduced for getting out a good,
useful, respectable, and creditable catalogue — es-
pecially when the expense is comparatively so trif-
ing — the extreme difference between the largest
number of the best catalogue and the smallest
number of the worst catalogue being only 50s.
The better catalogue, too, would sell the best.”

.Not so good is the following : “ The num-

bering of the vohunes on the shelves of a library
ought to be consecutive throughout, and entirely
irrespective of divisions into classes. If the
other plan is adopted of classifying books on
the shelves, besides the waste of time and labor
and the disfigurement of the books by occasional
fresh numbering, there will be a loss of space.
Quarto books may have to be placed next to oc-
tavos. Indeed no useful object whatever would
be gained by rearranging the localities of the
books.”

Rieu, C: Catalogue of the Persian mss. in the

British Museum. Vol. 2. L., 1881. 7 +

(433-877) P- 4”.

” Le t. 2 est execute sur le meme plan que le
premier et merite les memes 61oges.” — E. Fag-
nan in Rev. crit.

Bodleian Library. Accession lists of new
foreign purchases, and of the most interesting
purchases of old works, will be posted in both
reading-rooms. The 723 vols. of the catalogue
are being paged, and an officer will be employed
for some years to come in revising all headings
and titles, and indexing all extensive articles.
For accessions, the cataloguing rules of the
L A. U. K. will be adopted, with only such
modifications as are essential to the catalogue ;
the practicability of introducing print will also
be considered. The sorting of the spare set of
slips which are to form a subject-catalogue is
being rapidly expedited by a special extra staff ;
whether they shall be laid down in volumes or
on cards is undecided. The long-designed class-
ified rearrangement of the library will be car-
ried out (as intended) by first arranging the slips
relating to a subject, and then bringing the
books on it into a corresponding order.

Full Names. — W: Rattle Plum (The military
telegraph during the civil war in the U . .S.) ;
Alfred Hix Welsh (Development of English lan-
guage and literature) ; W: Mather Scott (ed. of
Van Santvoord’s Sketches of the lives of the
chief justices of the U. S.) ; Rafael Arroyo Bay-
ley (National loans of the U. S.) ; C: G: Mayers
(Mendota, the spirit of the lake) ; G: Washington
Hunter (Divine liturgy in the book of common
prayer) ; Gideon Delaplaine Scull (The Evelyns
in America.)

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iLibrarg IJurrijasesJiist.

A SELECTION OF NEW BOOKS, WITH NOTES OF
COMMENDATION OR CAUTION.

Books mentioned without notes can, as a rule, be safely
purchased for the general reader. The binding, unless
otherwise expressed, is generally understood to be in
cloth.

Amicis, Edmondo de. Military life in Italy :
sketches ; tr. by W. W. Cady. N. Y., Put-
nam. il. D. $2.

“ In his sketches of military life De Amicis discloses dra-
matic gifts which have not been suspected by the readers
of his books of travel.” — Christian union.

Arnold, Edwin. Pearls of the faith ; or, Is-
lam’s rosary. Dost., Roberts. S. $1.

“ Completes his Oriental trilogy. The first part is ‘ The
light of Asia,’ the second part ‘ The Indian song of songs.’
In this the poet tells the beads of a pious Muslim, each
bead representing one of the * ninety-nine beautiful names
of Allah.’ The legends and instructions inculcate the
gentle virtues that make life lovely — courtesy, humility,
hospitality, care for the poor and the ill, kindness to dumb
animals, perfect manners in social intercourse.” — Boston
A dvertiser.

Austin, G. L., M.D. Water- analysis ; a hand-
book for water-drinkers. Dost., Lee & Shep-
ard. sq. T. 50 c.

A ready method of determining the wholesomeness and
unwholesomeness of water for drinking purposes ; for per-
sons who are not professional chemists.

Austin, Jane G. Nantucket scraps : being the
experiences of an off-islander, in season and
out of season, among a passing people.
Bost., Osgood, sq. S. $1.50.

‘‘ She writes pleasantly of the sea and the moors ; and
tells the stories that the Nantucket captains told to her.”
— Boston A dvertiser.

“ There is a pleasant briny flavor about this little book,

. . . but it is wofully padded.” — N. Y. Tribune.
Beowulf : an Anglo-Saxon poem ; [also\ The
fight at Finnsburg ; tr. by Ja. M. Garnett ;
with fac-simile of the unique ms. in the British
Museum, Cotton. Vitellius AXV. Bost.,
Ginn, Heath & Co. D. $r.

A line-for-line translation, in rhythmical form.

Bishop, W: H: The house of a merchant
prince : a novel of New York. Bost.,
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. D. $1.50.

“ A picture of N. Y. society drawn with great care and
giving a companion picture in a somewhat soberer vein to
the ‘ Tender recollections of Irene McGillicuddy,’ ‘ The
confessions of a frivolous girl,’ etc.” — Boston Advertiser,

Bjornson, Bjdrnstjerne. Magnhild ; from the
Norse by Rasmus B. Anderson. Author's ed.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co. S. $1.

Closes the present series of Bjornson’s works.

Brace, C: Loring. Gesta Christ! ; or, a history
of humane progress under Christianity. N.Y.,
Armstrong. O. $2. 50.

‘‘ What we have been accustomed to say in sweeping
phrases about the indebtedness of m.inkind to the beneficent
influence of Christianity is here made definite and particu-
larized, supported by facts and given authorities.” — N. Y,
Times.

Brooke, Stopford. English literature ; Ameri-
can ed., rev. and brought to date by Frank
Gilbert. Chic., Fairbanks, Palmer & Co.
S. (Literature manuals.) flex, cl., 40 c.
Brown, J:, Af.Z>. Spare hours. ser. Locke
and Sydenham, and other papers. Bost.,
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. S. $1.50.

Bull, Sara C. Ole Bull : a memoir ; with Ole
Bull’s “ Violin notes ” and Dr. A. B. Crosby’s
“ Anatomy of the violinist.” Bosi., Hough-
ton, Mifflin & Co. O. $2.50.

” A sketch of the personal history of the man, rather
than an attcQipt to analyze the qualities of his art or to de-
fine his place in the history of music.” — N. Y. Tribune.

Campbell, Helen. The problem of the poor :
a record of quiet work in unquiet places.
N. Y., Fords, Howard & Hulbert. sq. S.
90 c.

” An account of the McAuley Mission and its work in
N. Y. Five Points ; with sketches and stones taken from
actual experience among the poor and criminal ; also clear,
practical discussion of modes of helping the poor.” — Pub-
lishers' weekly.

Church. Ella Rodman. The home needle.
N. Y., Appleton, il. D. (Appletons’ home
books.) 60 c.

” Confines Itself to plain sewing and useful needlework.”

Conway, Moncure Daniel. Emerson at home
and abroad. Bost., Osgood. D. $1.50.

” It is not a criticism ; it is not the dispassionate decision
of the judge ; it is the enthusiastic offering of one who was
roused by Emerson into higher life, and who delights in hon-
oring his master.” — Boston Advertiser.

“ We are introduced to the whole galaxy of famous per-
sonages with whom he had anything to do — Carlyle, Words-
w orth, Coleridge, Landor, Sir Arthur Helps, Max Muller,
Tyndall, Darwin, Huxley, besides Hawthorne, Thoreau,
Channing, Parker, Ripley, and the whole transcendental
world.” — Boston Transcript.

Cook, Joel. England, picturesque and descrip-
tive : a reminiscence of foreign travel, with
[487] il. Phil., Porter & Coates. Q. $7.50.
Crawford, F. Marion. Mr. Isaacs ; a tale of
modern India. N. Y., Macmillan. D. $1.

” The author had the opportunity, as the editor of an
Anglo-Indian newspaper, of becoming acquainted with the
land and the people of India. These pictures and studies
of Anglo-Indian life are exceedingly vivid.” — Christian
intelligencer.

“ A fine and noble story.” — Literary World.

Dahlgren, Madeleine Vinton. Memoir of John
A. Dahlgren, Rear-Admiral, U. S. N., by his
widow. Bost., Osgood, il. O. $3.

Dobson, Austin, ed. Eighteenth century essays ;
selected and annotated by Austin Dobson.
N. Y., Appleton. S. (Parchment ser.) $1.25.

” A perfect book, not only in its outward appearance, its
type, its paper, and its chaste vellum binding, but in its
contents — in the singular skill with which its selections
have been made, and in the thorough scholarship which
distinguishes the introduction and the notes of its accom-
plished editor, Mr. Austin Dobson.” — R. H. Stoddard in
the Mail and express.

Donnelly, Ignatius. Ragnarok : the age of
fire and gravel. N. Y., Appleton. D. $2.

” It is something like what one of Jules Verne’s books
would be if that author should stoutly protest that the story
was all true. . . . On the whole, ‘ Ragnarok ’ is too absurd
to do much mischief, and contains much that is readable,
and that may in a certain way prove instructive ; that is, it
may serve to kindle an interest in some minds upon subjects
to which they would not be attracted by ordinary didactic
treatises.” — Popular science monthly,

Douglas, Rob. K. China. N. Y., Young.

map and il. D. net, $1.50.

Doyle, J. A. English colonies in America ;
Virginia, Maryland, and the Carolinas. N. Y.,
Holt. O. $3.50.

” If the undertaking be completed in the spirit in which
it has been begun, it will not be a work remarkable for
originality of treatment or brilliancy of execution, but it will
be a compact, orderly, and thoroughly useful contribution
to historical study.” — N. Y. Tribune.

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\Janinry, ’83.

Dresser, Christopher. Japan : its architecture,
art, and art manufactures. (Lond.) N. Y.,
Scribner & Welford. il. O. $10.

“ Though it reads something like a volume of travel, it is
not intended to be anything more than a comprehensive
and technical account of the condition and progress of the
country’s arts— industrial and architectural particularly —
and their influence upon modern designing methods. The
illustrations are all by Japanese artists, and are exception-
ally well engraved and printed.” — Literary %vorld.

” These pages are as interesting as any to be found in
Miss Bird’s well-told narrative.” — N. V. Limes.

Fletcher, Mrs. Eliza Dawson. Autobiography.
l^New issue.'\ Dost., Roberts. S. $1.50.

Mrs. Fletcher was the wife of a learned Scotch lawyer
and staunch Whig, and was herself an enthusiast in politics.
Her autobiography derives its chief interest from her friend-
ships and correspondence with literary people and celeb-
rities.

Ford, Worthington C., ed. The American citi-
zen’s manual. Pt. i : Governments (national,
state and local), the electorate, the civil ser-
vice. N. Y., Putnam. D. (Questions of the
day.) $1.

Gardner, E. C. The house that Jill built, after
Jack’s had proved a failure ; a book on home
architecture. N. Y., Fords, Howard & Hul-
bert. il. sq. S. (Our continent lib.) $1.50.

A series of papers showing how, in building houses that
are to be truly homes, it is possible to combine architectu-
ral beauty with wise and economical construction.

Geikie, Archibald. Text-book of geology.
N. Y., Macmillan, il. O. net, $7.50.

“ Minute and wonderfully detailed accurate observation,
combined with an almost poetic ability to express himself
in words.” — Independent.

Gilbert, Frank. American literature. Chic.,
Fairbanks, Palmer & Co. S. (Literature
manuals.) 50 c.

Glumer, Claire von. A noble name; or, Ddn-
ninghausen ; from the German by Mrs. A. L.
Wister. Phil., Lippincott. D. $1.50.

” The book is little above the average, but it will not
come amiss to people who must have a novel.” — N. Y.
Post.

Hardy, T: Two on a tower : a novel. N. Y.,
Holt. S. (Leisure hour ser.) $1.

Hasell, E. J. Tasso. Phil., Lippincott. S.

(For. classics for Eng. readers.) $1.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Doctor Grimshawe’s
secret : a romance ; ed.. with preface and
notes, by Julian Hawthorne. Bost., Osgood,
D. $1.50.

” There can be little doubt that Hawthorne’s judgment
was correct when he laid the work aside as unsatisfactory.”
— Examiner .

Henderson, Howard. Practical hints on camp-
ing. Chic., Jansen, McClurg & Co. D.
$1.25.

“ Intended to meet all the wants of gunners, fishermen,
and photographers on an excursion.”

Holley, G: W. The falls of Niagara ; [and] cata-
racts. N. Y., Armstrong, il. O. $3.
Kennedy, W. Sloane. John Greenleaf Whit-
tier : his life, genius, and writings. Bost.,
Cassino. 6. ^1.50.

” A just, temperate, and interesting account of the career
of the poet and reformer, together with an excellent analy-
sis of his writings in prose and verse.” — Boston Traveller.

Koehler, S. R., comp. The United States art
directory and year-book ; guide for artists.

art students, travellers, etc. N. Y., Cassell,
O. pap., 50 c.

” A monument of facts and patient collaboration. The
author gives first a list of academies, art schools, museums,
art clubs, etc., arranged nationally and locally ; next, a di-
rectory of artists ; and, afterwards, an art-teachers’ direc-
tory, necrology of artists for the past year, books on art,
art journals, the copyright law as applied to art productions,
coming exhibitions, statistical tabic of former exhibitions,
etc. The treatment of all societies, artists, etc., is generous
and impartial ; and in general the information is full and
accurate.” — Boston Commonvuealth.

L’ Estrange, Rev. A. G., ed. The friendships
of Mary Russell Mitford, as recorded in let-
ters from her literary correspondents. N. Y.
Q. (Harper’s Franklin sq. lib.) pap., 25 c.

” A great deal of amusing gossip, much criticism of va-
rious quality, and pleasant glimpses of character.” — N. Y.
Tribu7ie.

Linton, W. J. The history of wood-engraving
in America, il. Bost., Estes & Lauriat, 1882.
$7-50._

“Mr. Linton’s treatment is too persistently critical and
too highly colored to be called a history. . . . Abounds in
matter of historical interest, and is throughout suggestive
and instructive.” — Harper's magazine.

Linton, W. J., ed. Rare poems of the i6th and
17th centuries ; a supplement to the anthol-
ogies ; collected and edited, with notes, by
V/. J. Linton. Bost, Roberts, il. sq. S. $2.

A reprint, with additions, of his “ Golden apples of Hes-
perus,” of which a limited edition was printed some time
ago.

Little sister. Bost, Roberts Bros. S. (No
name [third] ser.) $1.

“ Quiet domestic story, illustrating the good influence one
sunny-tempered, unselfish, industrious woman can exercise.”

Lounsbury, T; R. James Fenimore Cooper.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co. S. (Am. men
of letters.) $1.25.

“Excellent critical analysis. ... In regard to his his-
tory of our navy ... we come upon a serious blot in Pro-
fessor Lounsbury's book. He is evidently not aware that
Mr. Roosevelt, m his elaborate history of the war of 1812,
had put a new face on the matter, and shown that Cooper
was not seldom at fault.” — Boston Advertiser.

McCosh, James, D.D. Criteria of diverse kinds
of truth as opposed to agnosticism : treatise
on applied logic. N. Y., Scribner. D. (Phil-
osophic ser.) pap , 50 c.

The first of a senes to be published quarterly, in pamphlet
of about 60 pages each, in stout paper covers, at 50 cents
per volume, each embracing an exposition, complete in
itself, of one theme.

Martensen, H., M.D. Christian ethics. Spe-
cial part, second division : Social ethics ; tr.
by S. Taylor. N. Y., Scribner & Welford.

O. $3.

Martineau, Ja. Study of Spinoza. N. Y.,
Macmillan. D. $2.

“ A help to those who wish to study Spinoza for them-
selves rather than as an account of his doctrines dispensing
from such study.” — Academy.

Morison, Ja. Colter. [Thomas Babington]
Macaulay. N. Y., Harper. D. (English men
of letters.) 75 c.

“ Very interesting and generally judicious. . . . If Mr.
Morison has not always found his author’s faults with
acuteness, he has often praised him with a cordiality and
justice that other critics might do well to imitate.” — Satur-
day revieiu.

Oi.iPHANT, Mrs. M. O. W. A little pilgrim, etc.
Bost., Roberts. S. 75 c.

“When so short a sketch as this is made the subject of

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more than one leading article in a magazine like the Spec-
tator. and when an American theological review gravely
lets itself to the task of discussing its theology, there is
some reason for thinking that the little book is worth read-
ing.”— Sunday-school times.

Oliver, Mrs. G. A. A study of Maria Edge-
worth, with notices of her father and friends.
Bost., Williams. D. $2.25.

” Mrs. Oliver has performed for a once famous and now
too much neglected writer a service that will give a fresh
interest to her works, and perpetuate a wholly charming
and estimable character.” — Boston Gazette.

Palmer, Henrietta Lee. Home-life in the Bible ;
ed. by J: Williamson Palmer. Bost., Osgood,
il. O. $3.50.

“ One of the most useful and interesting of recent illus-
trated works . . . relating to the homes and the home-life
of the people of whom any mention is made in the Old and
New Testaments.” — Harper's magazine.

Phillips, Lawrence B. Index of biographical
reference, over 100,000 names, together with a
classed index of the biographical literature of
Europe and America. 2r/ with necrology
of eminent persons for the last ten years.
N. Y., Worthington. O. $3.75.

Prentiss, Elizabeth. Life and letters. N. Y.,
Randolph, sq. D. $2.25.

“ Among her 17 volumes the one which best represents her
life and work was ‘Stepping heavenward.’ ” — N. Y. Times.

Rachel’s share of the road. Bost., Osgood.
(Round-robin ser.) $1.

“A story treating of the conflict between capital and
labor.”

Rawlinson, G: The seventh great Oriental
monarchy ; or, the geography, history, and
antiquities of the Sassanian or New Persian
empire. N. Y., Dodd, Mead & Co. 2 v.
map and il. O. $6.

“ Completes the author’s ancient history of the East. It
is a sequel to the Parthians, and carries down the history of
Western Asia from the third century of our era to the mid-
dle of the seventh.”

Reid, Christian [ps. for Frances Fisher.] Heart
of steel : a novel. N. Y., Appleton. S.
$1.25.

The scene is chiefly in Paris and Rome, although the
principal characters are Americans.

Richardson, Abby Sage, ed. Old love letters ;
or, letters of sentiment, written by persons
eminent in English literature and history.
Bost., Osgood. T. $1.25.

“ Mrs. Richardson has edited the letters with taste and
skill, her brief introductions and comments adding much
to the interest and value of the collection.” — N. Y. Trib-
une.

Riddell, Mrs. J. H. Daisies and buttercups ;
a novel. N, Y. Q. (Harper’s Franklin
sq. and Seaside libs.) pap., 20 c.

Schaff, Philip, D.D., and Gilman, Arthur, ed.
Library of religious poetry ; the best poems of
all ages and tongues ; with biographical and
literary notes. N. Y., Dodd, Mead &: Co.
il. O. $5’

Nearly 800 poets represented.

Schmid, Rudolf. The theories of Darwin, and
their relation to philosophy, religion, and mo-
rality ; from the German by G: A. Zimmer-
mann ; with an introduction by the Duke of
Argyll. Chic., Jansen, McClurg & Co. D.
$2.

“ A historical and critical essay on Darwinism. The

historical part contains a clear statement ot the theories
of descent, of evolution, and of natural selection. . . .
Another valuable feature of the work is the distinction
which it draws between the purely scientific question of the
origin of species and the philosophical supplements which
are found in the systems of many scientific men.” — Chris-
tian union.

Steele, Jas. W. Frontier army sketches.
Chic., Jansen, McClurg & Co. 328 p. D. cl.,
$1.50.

“A book dealing v/ith frontier life, which, while satu-
rated with the flavor of adventure and the breath of the
plains, manages to keep its pages free of the taint of dime-
novel ‘ blood and thunder.’ Of particular excellence are
the papers on men of the border and on New Mexican com-
mon life.” — American.

Stevenson, Rob. L. New Arabian nights.
N. Y., Holt. S. (Leisure hour ser.) $1.

“ Undoubtedly a clever work, the attractiveness of which
is not very easy to explain. The stories are not humorous,
nor funny, nor witty, and yet they have the great merit of
holding the reader’s attention. They are tantalizing and
deceptive.” — A thenceum.

Thomson, W: M., M.D. The land and the
book ; or, biblical illustrations drawn from the
manners and customs, the scenes and scenery
of the Holy Land. [V. 2] : Central Palestine
and Phoenicia. N. Y., Harper, il. and m ps,
sq. O. $6 ; shp. , $7.

The second volume of the new octavo edition of “ The
land and the book,” of which the first volume appeared in
1880 with the sub-title: “Southern Palestine and Jerusa-
lem.” The original edition of the work was published in
1859, in 2 V., 12°. The new edition is substantially a new
work.

Van Dyke, Theodore S. The still-hunter.
N. Y , Fords, Howard & Hulbert. D. $2.

Elaborate and practical treatise on deer-stalking.

Washburn, Emelyn W. Studies in early Eng-
lish literature. N. Y., Putnam. O. $1.50.

“A series of studies, touching on the language of the
Saxons as it grew, as well as on the growth of its literature.
There is much dull reading in the Saxon and Norman poetry.
The author recognizes this, and the reader’s patience is rot
much tried by long quotations made solelj?^ to illustrate the
dulness of the times, but he is occasionally regaled with
some of the fine bits of poetry, chosen with toil and skill.”
— Critic.

Watson, John. Schelling’s transcendental ideal-
ism : a critical exposition. Chic., Griggs.
S. (German philos. classics.) cl., $1.25.

“In tracing the development of Schelling’s speculations
through Kant and Fichte, the author offers convenient sum-
maries that will be found useful by the most advanced
scholars. And the study of Schelling is justly regarded as
of chief value as an introduction to Hegel, to whose works
several volumes in this series will be devoted.” — Boston
Traveller.

Wilson, Andrew. Chapters on evolution : a
popular history of Darwinism, and allied theo-
ries of development. N. Y., Putnam. O.
$2.50.

“ It is certain to prove helpful to all general students of
the subject of organic development. ... It is more prop-
erly confined to that phase or section of evolution which
has come to be represented by the term ‘ Darwinism.’ and
is a book that should be ranked with Professor Gray’s
‘ Darwiniana,’ and Oscar Schmidt’s German volume on
‘ Descent and Darwinism.’ There should be no confusion
here, for Darwinism is not evolution, and is but a part of
it.” — Popular science monthly.

WooDBERRY, G: E. A history of wood engrav-
ing. N. Y., Harper, il. sq. O. $3.50.

“ When so many examples of wood engraving of all sorts
are forced upon us daily it is well to learn something about
wood-engraving itself, and this is what Mr. Woodberry’s
book enables us to do readily.” — N. Y. Mail and express.

“ An admirable mznuaX." —Independent.

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Ilotes antt ©uerics.

I SHOULD like some forms or information in
reference to best methods of charging and keep-
ing record of books issued from a circulating li-
brary of 800 to 1000 volumes, the rates usually
charged for books per week or yearly subscrip-
tions. H, T. C.

Bodley’s Librarian has substituted half
morocco binding for half calf, and has devised a
new cheap binding for tracts, etc. — paperboards
with parchment back. All printed volumes
containing several distinct works (not being
homogeneous tracts) are now broken up on re-
binding.

Painted Class Numbers. {See Lib. jnl, 7:
273.) _ I forgot to add that I paint at a uniform
height and breadth, so that the books on shelf
show an even horizontal streak. I began at
heel of book, but the hand of the public quickly
grimed and erased it, so I now put it two and a
half inches above the shelf. N.B. — It often
covers up the title, but the public does not go to
our shelves.

I can’t say exactly the cost of my painting,
but it cannot be more than about one fifth of a
cent per vol. for the labor, and I can lower that
one third at least by using not quite so skilful a
limner. This does not include the two paints
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Ezekiel Porter Belden, a graduate of Yale in
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Shirley Dare. — Susan C. (Dunning) Power.
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Haynes, J: E: Pseudonyms of authors ; includ-
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1882. 112 p. O.

5000 pen and true names, together with, in
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The Connecticut Library Law 26

An Index to Some Recent Reference Lists. — H. J.

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Every one who prepares a work of this kind be-
lieves that he is shortening the road to knowledge,
and Americans have a great respect for knowl-
edge and a strong inclination for filanthropy.
No country has produced more or more devoted

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\Egdruary, ^83.

missionaries. Bibliografers and indexers feel
that they are humble servants of the gospel of
learning, of knowledge, of science. Humble
servants, to be sure, but some people are hum-
ble and like to labor on low levels rather than not
labor at all. The sarcasm quoted by the
iicBum, “that they spend in copying title-pages
the time other people spend in reading books,’’
may be true and yet not be a very serious
reproach. To copy title-pages for other people’s
benefit is quite as noble an occupation as to read
books for one’s own amusement. And when we
hear of the immense preparations made for the
English Philological Society’s new dictionary,
we are led to believe that the Americans are not
the only persons in the world willing to sacrifice
themselves a little in dull work for others’ profit.

It is singular that after this exordium the chief
objection made to Mr. Poole’s Index is on ac-
count of a matter in which it is ^^wbibliografical.

“ Mr. Poole’s arrangement of his material is no doubt in
accordance with the rules of indexing which have been
sanctioned by the librarians of both countries — excellent
people in themselves, but a little too over- conscious of the
fact that they live in a scientific age. We confess to think-
ing the work would have been somewhat more compact had
the arrangement been a little less mechanical. To take an
example: on turning to one of the early articles, ‘Aris-
tophanes,’ we first find enumerated, as was right and proper,
some general articles on Aristophanes ; next comes a re-
view in the Edinburgh of Mitchell’s edition of ‘ The
Acharni.ans ; ’ then an article on Aristophanes and Socrates
by E. Everett, which, if it refers to any play, must refer to
‘The Clouds];’ next an article on ‘The Birds,’ and
another on Cary’s translation ; then, after some articles on
‘ The Clouds,’ we come back to an article on the ‘ Com-
edies of Aristophanes,’ which surely might have figured
at the top along with the general articles ; a little way on
we come to a.not\i&r Edinburgh Review article on Mitchell,
which had better, we should have thought, gone with the
preceding article on that editor ; a little lower down is in-
dexed an article from Fraser, ‘“The Possums” of Aris-
tophanes,’ without a word to indicate it is a squib ; then
‘ “ The Rooks” of Aristophanes,’ possibly a skit too, but
probably a translation of ‘ The Birds,’ which should have
been put along with the other articles on ‘ The Birds.’

Now this is very far from being “ scientific.”
A “ scientific” method generally requires some
investigation on the part of the maker and
presupposes special knowledge also in the user.
This method does neither. It would rather
be called the practical, common-sense, rough-
and-ready method. The scientific, bibliografical,
or, as some would say, pedantic method would
be just what the Athenaum prefers. It undoubt-
edly would give the best result in the eyes of a
scholar, and for him it is the most convenient

order, but it is at least a matter for discussion
whether the “scientific,” artistic style would be
under all subjects and for all persons the best.
It is certain that if an attempt had been made
to introduce it throughout, we should not have
had the Index in our hands in Dec., 1882. This
may seem a very unsuitable reason for not at-
tempting minute work ; but that it weighs with
Americans is a proof that they are not so “ bib-
liografical” yet as they are thought to be.

A PLAN OF SYSTEMATIC TRAINING IN
READING AT SCHOOL.

By W: E. Foster.

The plan detailed below has impressed the
writer as having some striking advantages, and
he has thought that its details would be of in-
terest to other librarians than himself. The
school in which it has been in force for a few
years past is the Point St. School in Providence ;
and as described here its operation is confined
chiefly to the first room, or principal’s room, the
pupils of which have an average age of about fif-
teen years. A plan of supervision somewhat
approaching to this, and intended as a prepara-
tion for it, is, however, found in other rooms in
the school.

The main points of the plan are as follows :
(i.) Careful and uninterrupted study of the re-
sources of the Public Library, and making them
available w^herever possible. (2.) A “school
library,” selected chiefly from books in the
Public Library, circulating under the personal
direction of the principal. (3.) The systematic
supervision, instruction, and training which ac-
company the reading of these books.

The books themselves have been gradually
accumulating during the last three or four years,
and have now become a library of several hun-
dred volumes. But the significant feature of
the collection is the fact that the books have
been selected by the principal, Mr. Sawin, with
as minute care as a surgeon would use in select-
ing his instruments. Not one has been admit-
ted until he has thoroughly satisfied himself of
its contents. The importance of this knowledge
will be appreciated when it is considered that in
a certain sense he himself makes the selection of
reading for each pupil. Out of the list of num-
bers presented by the pupil, he furnishes that
book which in his judgment will best further the
process of intellectual training and development
which he has in view for that individual pupil ;
and he may go outside of the pupil’s list alto-
gether. The study of the adaptation of individual
books to individual readers is plainly an essential
feature of the plan.

This, however, is but one half of the story.
The pupil, we will suppose, has drawn Coffin’s
“Old times in the colonies,” or Miss Buckley’s
“ Life and her children.” But the use which
he shall make of the book is by no means optional
with him. He may not return it the next day ;

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he inust keep it at least one week, and in certain
cases an extra week. He may not return it un-
read or superficially read ; he knows that he must
give a satisfactory account of his reading. There
are several ways in which the principal satisfies
himself of the fruits of each pupil’s reading, (i.)
The written cxercise-books. Each pupil is supplied
with a blank-book, and before returning a book
which he has read he must enter in this as care-
ful an abstract of it as possible, and he has the
book itself before him while writing it. It is a well-
attested fact that to write down on paper the
main ideas of the last book read, has a tendency
to write them at the same time into the reader’s
own mind. (2.) Otal abstracts, from memory.
On Friday afternoons, besides reading from
their written exercise-books, the pupils are called
upon to state in their own words the substance of
some book — not necessarily the last one — which
the principal has at some time put in their hands
for reading. The advantages of this method,
in drawing upon the pupil’s own resources, in
compelling him to call new faculties into exercise,
in giving him facility in the use of his material,
are too obvious to need extended statement. (3.)
IViitten abstracts from memory. Their object is
to allow the pupil time to go more into details,
to make his statements more deliberately, and
to do fuller justice to himself, than when on his
feet, giving an oral account. Moreover, they
are not furnished on some specified day in the
week, by all the pupils at the same time. Each
individual pupil, under such circumstances and
at such times as the judgment of the principal
may dictate, prepares and presents his own ab-
stract. This work is of striking excellence. The
writer has had the pleasure of examining a large
number of these abstracts. With few exceptions
they show such a familiarity with the contents of
the books as could have been gained only by in-
telligent and thorough mastery of their essential
points.

The question may be suggested whether ah
undue amount of time and attention is not in
this way devoted to that small number of books
which at the most will be all that can be read
under these conditions. If reading these few
books were the whole end and aim of the plan,
it would be open to question. But no one can
fail to see that an essential feature of the plan is
the acquiring of the method. Not simply the
information that New York was settled by the
Dutch, or that sponges grow on rocks, or the at-
tendant circumstances in either instance, are the
end in vievv ; but ability to deal with other books,
and preparation for making the most effective use
of a library. And every additional book thus
read and mastered confirms the habit and fixes
the tendency.

It may be queried, however, what sort of
“abstracts” these pupils of fifteen are capable
of making. It is true that they are not abstracts
in the same sense in which the “Table of con-
tents” of Mr. Bancroft’s new work on the
“ Formation of the constitution,” for instance, is
an abstract of that work. They are not of course
exhaustive enough for that. The pupil give^ ,a

brief statement of the purpose of the book, and
then in most instances a general survey of the
book as a whole. After that it is found that
in some cases the tendency is to select some in-
cident of the book. This, the pupil will say, “ is
one of the most interesting of the matters de-
scribed here.” This is certainly natural. Yet it
is clear that the most of them have caught the
essential idea of an abstract ; and some of the
papers show a very noteworthy degree of skill
in analysis. Special pains are taken to develop
this facility ; and a marked difference can be ob-
served in this particular between the papers pre-
sented near the beginning of the year and those
near the close. Books, moreover, have some-
times been given back, to be re-read ; and papers,
to be re-written. It is interesting to notice,
also, that, whether the account be an oral or a
written one, it seldom fails to begin with a state-
ment of what “ the object of this book is.” In-
quiry, however, shows that the pupils have been
carefully trained in the use and purposes of the
the title-page, the table of contents, the preface,
and the index. They are held responsible if
they cannot furnish the information which these
aids would help them to find.

It might perhaps be expected that the tendency
of so systematically controlling the reading of
these pupils would be to extinguish all real in-
terest. However plausible such a theory may
appear, it can have little weight against the actu-
ally observed tendency. The writer has more
than once been present at a weekly exercise such
as has been alluded to, and has himself talked
with more than one member of the school.*
Nothing could be more hearty or unmistakable
than their interest in the topics, and the spirit
with which they enter into the plan ; and it is
perhaps most noticeable ir; the oral exercise re-
ferred to. The remark of a pupil that “ it is
impossible not to become interested in the book,
it is so plainly written,” might possibly be set
down as an unmeaning platitude if occurring in
a written exercise, but when uttered by a pupil
whose eyes, and whole attitude, bear eloquent
testimony to the genuineness of the feeling, it is
not easy to question the success of the method.
And, in truth, if you once concede the teacher’s
authority to exercise control over other lines of
study, and if, still farther, you concede his sound-
ness of judgment and ability to command the
confidence of his pupils, the existence of this
feeling on the part of the pupils no longer seems
any more unreasonable in theory than in prac-
tice.

Very much does depend on who the teacher
is ; on his intelligent familiarity with the books,
tact in dealing with children, and judicious adapt-
ation of all the details. Granting these, however,
it is plain that the system possesses great ad-
vantages. It is based on a correct theory. It
is exceedingly effective in practice. It com-
mends itself to the intelligence of the child. It
is accompanied by his lively interest. It brings

* See Library Journal, v. 5, p. 102-4 \ New England
Journal of Education, Feb. 19, 1880.

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\Februaty^ ’83.

to his attention, at the time, some of the most
suitable books for his reading. It furnishes the
best preparation for his future use of books. It
is an invaluable introduction to his use of a public
library. . Public libraries need have no appre-
hensions at the foundation of “ school libraries’’
like these. More than any other agency, per-
haps, they are serving to create a reading public
for the future who will use the resources of a
library to the best advantage.

THE CONNECTICUT LIBRARY LAW.

Section i. The city council of any city shall
have power to establish and maintain a public
library and reading-room, together with such
kindred apartments and facilities as said coun-
cil shall approve, for the use and benefit of
such city, and may levy a tax not to exceed one
mill and one half of a mill on the dollar annu-
ally, on all the taxable property of the city, such
tax to be levied and collected in the same man-
ner as other taxes of said city, and to be known
as the “ library fund.”

Sec. 2. When any city council shall have decid-
ed to establish and maintain a public library and
reading-room, under this act, the mayor of such
city shall, with the approval of the city council,
appoint a board of nine directors for the same,
chosen from the citizens at large, with reference
to their fitness for such office ; and not more
than one member of the city council shall be a
member of said board.

Sec. 3. Said directors shall hold office, one
third for one year, one third for two years, and
one third for three years from the first of July
following their appointment, and at their first
regular meeting shall cast lots for the respect-
ive terms ; and annually thereafter the mayor
shall before the first of July in each year ap-
point, as before, three directors, to take the
place of the retiring directors, who shall hold
office for three years, and until their successors
are appointed. The mayor may, with the con-
sent of the city council, remove any director for
misconduct or neglect of duty.

Sec. 4. Vacancies in the board of directors,
occasioned by removal, resignation, or other-
wise, shall be reported to the city council, and
be filled in the same manner as original ap-
pointments.

Sec. 5. Said directors shall, immediately after
their appointment, meet and organize by the
election of one of their number as president,
and by the election of such other officers as
they may deem necessary. They shall make
and adopt such by-laws, rules, and regulations
for their own guidance and for the government
of the library and reading-room as may be expe-
dient, not inconsistent with this act. They shall
have the exclusive control of the expenditures
of all moneys collected to the credit of the li-
brary fund, and of the construction of any li-
brary building, and of the supervision, care,
and custody of the grounds, rooms, or buildings
constructed, leased, given, or set apart for

that purpose ; provided, that all moneys col-
lected and received for such purpose shall be
placed in the treasury of said city, to the credit
of the ‘‘library fund,” and shall be kept sepa-
rate from other moneys of the city, and shall be
drawn upon by the proper officers of said city,
upon the properly authenticated vouchers of
said directors. Said board shall have power to
purchase, lease, or accept grounds, to erect,
lease, or occupy an appropriate building or
buildings for the use of said library ; to appoint
a person of suitable learning, ability, and ex-
perience as librarian, and all necessary assist-
ants, and fix their compensation, to remove such
appointees ; and shall in general cany out the
spirit and intent of this act, in establishing and
maintaining a public library and reading-room,
together with such kindred apartments and fa-
cilities as said council shall approve.

Sec. 6. Every library and reading-room es-
tablished under this act shall be forever free to
the use of the inhabitants of the city where lo-
cated, always subject to such reasonable rules
and regulations as the board of directors may
adopt, in order to render the use of said library
and reading-room of the greatest benefit to the
greatest number ; and said board may exclude
from the use of said library and reading-room
any and all persons who shall wilfully violate
such rules. And said board may extend the
privileges and use of such library and reading-
room to persons residing outside of such city in
this State, upon such terms and conditions as
said board may from time to time prescribe.

Sec. 7. The said board of directors shall
make, on or before the second Monday in June,
an annual report to the city council, stating the
condition of their trust on the first day of June
of that year, the various sums of money received
from the library fund and from other sources,
and how such moneys have been expended,
and for what purposes ; the number of books
and periodicals on hand ; the number added by
purchase, gift, or otherwise, during the year ;
the number lost cr missing ; the number of
visitors attending ; the number of books loaned
out, and the general character of such books ;
with such other statistics, information, and sug-
gestions as they may deem of general interest.
All such portions of said report as relate to the
receipt and expenditure of money, as well as the
number of books on hand, books lost or missing,
and books purchased, shall be verified by affi-
davit.

Sec. 8. The city council of said city shall have
power to pass ordinances imposing suitable
penalties for the punishment of persons com-
mitting injury upon such library, or the grounds,
or other property thereof, and for injury to, or
failure to return, any book belonging to such
library. It shall be the duty of every librarian
or board of directors, having charge or control of
such library or property, to post up in one or more
conspicuous places connected therewith a print-
ed copy of this section. And justices of the
peace, or city or police courts, in their respect-
ive counties, shall have jurisdiction to hear, try,

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and determine all prosecutions under this sec-
tion.

Skc. 9. Any person desiring to make dona-
tions of money, personal property, or real estate
for the benefit of such library, shall have the
right to vest the title to such donation in the
board of dire'ctors created under this act, to be
held and controlled when accepted by such
board according to the terms of the deed, gift,
devise, or bequest of such property ; and as to
such property the said board shall be held to be
special trustees.

Sec. 10. When fifty legal voters of any town
or borough shall present a petition to the clerk
of the town or borough, asking that an annual
tax may be levied for the establishment and
maintenance of a free public library and read-
ing-room in such town or borough, and shall
specify in their petition a rate of taxation, not
to exceed three mills on the dollar, such clerk
shall, in the next legal notice of the regular annual
election in such town or borough, give notice
that at such election every elector may vote

“fora mill tax for a free public library

and reading-room,” or “ against a — • mill tax
for a free public library and reading-room,”
specifying in such notice the rate of taxation in
said petition ; and if the majority of all the
votes cast in such town or borough shall be “ for
the tax for a free public library and reading-
room,” the tax specified in such notice shall be
levied and collected in the same manner as
other general taxes of said town or borough,
and shall be known as the “ library fund pro-
vided^ that such tax may be lessened or increased
within the three-mill limit, or made to cease, in
case the legal voters of any such town or
borough shall so determine by a majority vote
at any annual election held therein ; and the
corporate authorities of such town or borough
shall have and may exercise the same powers
conferred upon the corporate powers of cities
under this act.

Sec. II. At the next regular election after
any town or borough shall have voted to es-
tablish and maintain a free public library and
reading-room, there shall be elected a library
board of six directors, one third for one year,
one third for two years, and one third for three
years ; and annually thereafter there shall be
elected two directors, who shall hold their office
for three years arid until their successors are
elected and qualified ; which board shall have
the same powers as are by this act conferred
upon the board of directors of free public libra-
ries and reading-rooms in cities. No director
of any free public library or reading-room es-
tablished under the provisions of this act in any
city, town, or borough shall receive any com-
pensation for any services rendered as such di-
rector.

Sec. 12. The secretary of state is hereby au-
thorized to send a copy of the annual laws of
the State, together with the legislative docu-
ments and journals, to each free public library
which shall desire them.

Approved, April 13, 1881.

AN INDEX TO SOME RECENT REFER-
ENCE LISTS.

By H; J. Carr, Grand Rapids, Mich.

The following memoranda were made by the compiler
from time to time, mainly for his own use, and make no
pretence of being exhaustive under any topic.

It must be understood that the references in this index
are not to books or articles about the various subjects, but
to lists of books, or parts of books about them.

It is to be hoped that in the near future some one may
follow out the same idea more extensively, including refer-
ences to still other bibliographical literature, to which the
present compiler has not convenient access.

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS USED.

B. P. L., Boston Public Library Bulletin ; C. U. L.,
“ The Library” of Cornell University Library ; H. L. A.,
Hartford Library Association Bulletin ; H. U. L., Harvard
University Library Bulletin; L. j., Library journal ; P. P.

L. , Providence Public Library Monthly reference lists ; Ph.

M. L., Philadelphia Mercantile Library ; St. L. P. Sch. L.,
St. Louis Public School Library Bulletin.

Adams’ (J: Quincy) Administration. P. P.
L., 2d an. report, 1880, App. 15, p. 27-28.

tEstheticism [Oscar Wilde, etc.]. P. P. L.,

2 ; I, (Jan,, ’82).

Afghanistan. B. P. L., 4 : 34-5, (Jan., ’79).

Africa. The French in Tunis. P. P. L..
I : 27, (July, ’81).

African Exploration and Travel, H, L.
A., V. I, no. 2, p. 2, (Mar., ’79).

America. Maps, discoveries, etc. B. P. L.,

3 : 205-209, (Apr., ’77).

Early English explorations in. B. P. L. ,

3 : 241-4, (July, ’77).

^Before Columbus. B. P. L., 8 : 65-9,

(April, ’76).

Early explorations in. B. P. L., 3 . 103-6,

(July, ’76).

In the i6th century. B. P. L., 3 : 136-141,

(Oct., ’76). See L. j., I : 26.

Early history of Virginia. B. P. L., 3 : 269-

273, (Oct., ’77)-

Early newspapers. B. P. L., 4 : 106-8,

(July, ’79).

American History (Colonial). H. U. L., i :
90-2, (Dec., ’77,) I ; 1 10-2, (March, ’78).

(Colonial, Puritans, Revolutionary, and

Constitutional.) H. U. L., i ; 153-5, (June,
’78.) I : 195-6, (Oct., ’78).

(New Eng. and Mass. Bay, 1620-35.) H.

U. L., I : 243-5, (Jul., ’79). I : 287-8, (Apr.,
’79)-

Early. Ref. list to lectures on. (W: E.

Foster.) L. j., 5 : 329-330, (Dec., ’80).

Founding of Boston. (W: E. Foster.)

L. 5 : 288-90, (Sept., ’80).

Philadelphia, 1682-1882. [Penn Anniver-
sary.] P. P. L., 2:39, (Nov., ’82).

The French allies, 1778-81. P. P. L., i :

41, (Nov., ’81).

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\February., ’83.

American History. Yorktown, Oct 19, 1781,
P. P. L. , I : 37, (Oct., ’81).

Hamilton’s influence. P. P. L., i ; ii,

(Mch., ’81).

Sve also Adams’ administration ; Washington.

American Local History, Check list for. B.
P. L., 3:38-40, 72-5, 107-111, 141-2, 181-3,
212-14. 250-1, 275-8, 302-7, 336-342. 369-
375, 422-9, (Jan., ’76-Oct., ’78), and 4 : 26-7,
(Jan., ’79).

Architecture, Works relating to. C. U. L.,

1 : 24-41, (Jan., ’82).

Arnold, Matthew. List of his writings.
Lit. world, 12 ; 215, (Jun. 18, ’81).

Art. The Venus of Melos. P. P. L., 2 ; 13a,
(Apr., ’82).

Art, Decorative. B. P. L., 3 : 210-211, (Apr.,
’77). 3 : 348, (Apr., ’78).

Arts. Fine. Course of reading to help begin-
ners. H. L. A., V. I, no. I, p. 2, (Dec., ’78).

Astronomy, Comets. P. P. L.. i : 25, (Jul.,
’81).

See also Library ; Literature.

Reference-Books. List of the most useful.
(Justin Winsor,) H. U. L„ 2 : 341-3, (Apr.,
’82). (Chronology only.)

List of the principal, important in libraries.

(A. R. Spofford.) U. S. Special Lib. Rep.
(1876), p. 688-710.

Good books of reference. [Naming 21 of

“ the smaller books of reference in most com-
mon use.”] Lit, world, 14 : 12, (Jan. 13, ’83).

Reformation. The relation of Erasmus to his
time (1467-1536). P. P. L., i : 23, (June, ’80).

Rennaissance, The. (Lists of works in B. P.
L., treating of the art, literature, political his-
tories, and biographies of the.) B. P. L., 4 :
98-106, 1 35-141, 209-2 1 1, 243-4, 271-2, 302 -3,
403-5, and 5 : 48-52, (July, ’79-Jan., ’82).

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\ February., ’83.

Richelieu, Cardinal, Career of. P. P. L., i :
35, (Sept., ’81).

Roman Catholic Church, in the U. S. Lit.
world, 8 : 202-3, (Apr., ’78).

Roman History. The last years of the Roman
Republic. P. P. L., 2 : 19, (June, ’82).

Ruskin, J: (Ref. Liston.) (W: E. Foster). L.
j., 6 : 172, (May, ’81).

Russia, Turkey, and the Eastern question. B.
P. L., 3 : 244-8, 379-380, (July, ’77, and July,
’78.)

Sea. Deep-sea phenomena. P. P. L., 1:25,
(July ’81.)

Sermons, not controversional or sectarian.
(About 20 V.) Lit. news, i : 43, (Mch., ’80.)

Shakespeare. Analysis of motive in “ Mac-
beth.” P. P. L., I : 47, (Dec., ’81).

Memoranda on “Othello” by actors. P.

P. L., I : 43, (Nov., ’81).

Poems. Bibliography of the earlier edi-
tions. (Justin Winsor.) H. U. L., 207-8,
264-8, (Oct., ’78, and Jan., ’79).

Simms, W: Gilmore, Works of. Lit. world, 13 :
351, (Oct. 21, ’82).

Spelling Reform, Literature of the. Spel.
Ref. Assoc. Bui., No. 5, Apr., ’78, p. 13-15.

(Ref. list on.) (W: E. Foster.) L. j., 5:

81, (Mch., ’80).

Spencer, Herbert (Ref. list to lecture on).
(W: E. Foster.) L. j., 5 : iii, (Apr., ’80).

(Ref. list on.) P. P. L.,2 : 31, (Sept, ’82.)

Stael, Mme. de (Ref. list on). P. P. L., i : 23,
(June, ’81).

Stanley, Dean (Ref. list on). P. P. L., i : 29,
(Aug., '81).

Sunday-School Books, Some good, specified.
(From the Congregationalist.) Lit. news, 1 :
37, (Mch., ’80).

Books accepted by the Ladies’ Com.

(From the Christian Register.') Lit. news,
I : 98, (May ’80).

for infant class. (80 submitted from which

6 to select.) Lit. news, 4 : 89, (Mch., ’83).

Supernatural, The. Some prose works mak-
ing a successful use of. Lit world, ii : 79,
(Feb. 28, ’80).

Taylor, Bayard. Complete list of his writings.
Lit. world, 10 : 12, (Jan. 4, ’79).

Teaching [25 best English books on]. Lit.
world, 13 : 380-1, (Nov. 4, ’82).

Catalog of books on. (C. W. Bardeen.)

Bardeen’s Catalog of School bulletin publica-
tions, July, ’82, p. 13-32. (Pub. trade list
an., 1882).

Tennyson, Alfred, Chief works of. Lit. world,
13 : 281, (Aug. 26, ’82).

Text-Books. American educational catalog,
1882. (Including subject classification.) Pub.
weekly, 22:46-84, (July, ’82), and Trade list
an., ’82. [^See Trade list an. of previous years
for earlier editions of sam.e.]

relating to chemistry and physics. Circ.

of information, U. S. Bureau of Ed., No. 6-
1880, p. 157-166. Wash.: ’81.

Trollope, Anthony. List of his works with
dates. Pub. weekly, 22 : 870, (Dec. 9, ’82),
and Lit. world, 13 : 456, (Dec. 16, ’82).

Turkey. See Eastern question.

United States Government Publications.
(Most val. current annual and other reports,
auth. by law or Congress.) Pub. weekly,
20:209-211, (Aug. 27, ’81). Monthly lists of
same ; P. w., 20 : 429, 518 and 850, (For July,
Aug., Sept., and Oct., ’81), 21 : 175, (For

Nov. and Dec., ’81). 21:428, (For Jan. i-

Mch. 31, ’82). 22 : 544-5, (For Apr. i-Sept.

30, ’82).

Venus, Transit of. P. P. L., 2 : 49, (Dec., ’82).

Washington, G: (Ref. list on.) P. P. L., i : 5,
(Feb., 81).

Waverley Novels, Historic basis of the. Lit.
world, 12 : 400-1, (Nov. 5, ’81).

Webster, Daniel. (Ref. list on.) P. P. L., 2 :
35, (Oct., ’82).

See Constitution.

Ulijrarg iStonoms aiUr Ibistorg.

Annuario del cuerpo facultativo de archiveros,
bibliotecarios, y anticuarios. Ano de 1881.
Madrid. 8-1-490 p. 8°.

Friends. An address on some growing evils
of the day, especially demoralizing literature
and art, from the representatives of the re-
ligious Society of Friends for Penn., N. J.,
and Del., 2d month, 10, 1882. Phila., Friends’
Book Store, n. d. 16 p. S.

Low, Seth, Mayor of Brooklyn. Libraries, their
influence on ancient and modern civilization.
(In Brooklyn, d. Jan. 12.) 2^ col.

Closes by recommending that Brook^n
Library be made a public library.

Pool, R. B. Libraries of railroad young men’s
Christian associations, n.p., [1882]. 7 p. O.
“The books should be adapted to the tastes
of practical men of common sense who want to
devote their spare minutes to reading which
will help to advance them in their work or give
them agreeable pastime. The books should be
a little above the average grade of the readers,
not below. . . . Whatever is immoral, sensa-
tional, or trashy must be excluded.” Lists of
suitable books are given.

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Schmidt, C, Zur Geschichte der iiltesten Biblio-
theken und der ersten Buchdrucker in Strass-
burg. Strassburg, Schmidt, 1882. 6 + 200 p.

S'\ 5 m.

Noticed in LiL Centralhlatt, Dec. 9, col. 1715.
What a librarian should be. (In Bibliographer,
Dec., 1882, V. 3. p. 10-13.)

A translation (taken from the Philobiblion,
N. Y., March, 1863) of a discourse by the Abbe
Cotton des Houssayes on his appointment as
librarian to the Sorbonne.

WiNSOR, Justin. The functions of a library in
a community of scholars. (/« the Christian
register, Feb. 8.) 3 col.

An abstract of a lecture before the Cambridge
Divinity School. . . . “ Not a single library is
perfect enough to satisfy any considerable num-
ber of the diversity of specialists. I have had
to do tvith some of the best equipped general
libraries in this country, provided with good
keys of their contents, and yet I never attempted
the investigation of a single subject, in any
direction, that I did not find myself at a loss
both for books that have been and books that
have not been written. Nevertheless, it is a
common piece of foolishness for the thoughtless
to wish our libraries were thinned out and re-
duced to what they call manageable proportions.
Books are but people, usually at their best —
people of many ages and from many parts.
The good folk who sneer at the profusion of
books seldom sneer at the still greater profusion
of men. I once asked the late Mr. Winter
Jones, when he was the principal librarian of the
best working library in the world, the British
Museum, ‘ How often does it happen that a
special student, seeking the utmost recesses of
his subject, can find all he desires in your vast
collection ?’ His answer was, ‘ Not one such
investigator in ten is satisfied.’ ‘ Because you
have not the books he needs ?’ I asked.

‘ Yes, partly for that reason,’ he replied, ‘ but
still in good part because the books do not exist.
When you have been a librarian as long as I
have,’ he added, ‘ you will be convinced of the
exceeding small margin of the bounds of knowl-
edge which books have as yet spread over. ’

“ It is always dangerous to say a book is of no
value. It is impossible to say what current
ephemeral publication may not become of the
utmost importance.” Mr. Winsor spoke of the
obligation resting upon ministers of country
parishes particularly to be purveyors of great
libraries.' He knew a clergyman, now the
president of a Western college, who ever since
he was a librarian had sent him at short intervals
the local waifs and estrays of literature which
had come in his way. He knew another, living
near a paper-mill, who had saved from destruc-
tion things which have sometimes proved of
almost priceless value.

Mr. Winsor then referred to the missionary
work of libraries, and what they had done for
the education of the people. “ The influence of

American work in this direction has been felt in
Europe. In England, the librarians of the larger
libraries are advancing rapidly in the same
direction.”

” Our own libraries are as yet too narrow and
confined for exhaustive research. John Quincy
Adams thought fifty years ago that it was not to
our credit that nowhere in the United States
could Gibbon be tracked through its course by
the verification of his foot-notes. I doubt if it
could be done to-day. That America has strug-
gled well to equip her scholars is only too ap-
parent from the enhancement and the value of
old books which has gone on under American
competition in the book marts of London, Paris,
and Leipzig. The infinite stores of knowledge
to-day must have better keys, and can have
them. Bibliographies, digests, indexes, must
shorten labor, and they will. Bibliography is a
vocation fast becoming necessary to every
scholar. It is a matter of congratulation to us
as Americans that the potentiality of the subject
catalogue is a power of our own creation. We
have developed it, despite the disregard^ not to
say disapproval, of the Old World. There is no
factor in the efficiency of a library equal to the
catalogue ; and yet the catalogue is almost
never thought of by those who found libraries.”

Abstracts of and extracts from Reports.

Cleveland {01) P. L. Added 3544 v. ; total, 36,-
563. “ The former large number of highly sensa-
tional novels are nearly all worn out, and have
been condemned, and it is a subject for con-
sideration, whether the percentage of a better
class of fiction could not be increased without
detriment, and to the added popularity of the
institution. . . . Some changes in the business
system that suggested themselves were made
one year ago, and the result has been more
favorable than was anticipated. Inquiry has
elicited the opinion from the assistants in the
circulating department, that the work seems
hardly more than one half what it was the pre-
vious year, and yet the records indicate no
falling off in service performed. Increased ex-
perience is no doubt valuable.”

Leeds {Engl) P. L. — “ The return of issues for
1881-82 shows a decrease upon that of the
previous year, which may be accounted for by
the improved state of trade in the town, and also
by the decision of the committee to discontinue
the purchase of three-volume novels.” A compara-
tive table is appended to the Report, giving the
figures for several great public libraries. Boston,
U. S., comes easily first, with 404,221 volumes an
issue of 1,040,553, and an expenditure of ^23, 590 ;
then Manchester, with 160,769 volumes, an issue
of 1,065,853, and an expenditure of 11,000 ;
then Liverpool — volumes, 121,315 ; issue, 1,251,-
576 ; expenditure, ^^13,000 ; then Leeds — vol-
umes, 117,231 ; issue, 662,018 ; expenditure,
only ;^470o. — Acad.

Mass. State L. — The agent of the Library in
England ” succeeded, through the kindness of
the American minister, in obtaining the assurance

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\^February^ ’83.

from the officers of Parliament that the set of
journals of the House of Lords and the House
of Commons now in the Library should be made
complete to date.

Worcester {Mass^ P. L. — Issue, 114,845 ;
reference, 48,846 ; Sunday use, 2143. The
Directors say : “ The public library is but a more
recent growth from the same root that first bore
the public school. Both institutions have their
origin in the conviction that a self-governed
community, if it is to remain free, must be well
taught. In some parts of the country it has been
argued that the State university is the natural
and logical supplement to the common schools
of the towns, and that a youth has as much
right to expect secondary as to demand primary
education at the hands of the commonwealth.
Massachusetts has never favored this notion ;
certainly not of late years, but instead has gone
on, whether under the guidance of a conscious
purpose or by a happy though unconscious in-
spiration, we need not ask, to create the true
people’s university in the establishment of the
Free Public Library. It is the peculiar felicity
of this mode of solving the problem that by
adopting it we avoid the most formidable of all
the arguments urged against furnishing the
higher education at the public expense — namely,
the plea that to single out a few young men or
young women with natural endowments ex-
ceptionally good and to give them special ad-
vantages of training at the cost of the tax-payers,
is unfair. The higher education to which the
Free Public Library invites a community is ob-
noxious to no such cavil. It offers to all a fair
field and no favor. If, among those whom the
public schools have graduated, there are any
whose minds are more than ordinarily good, here
is the opportunity for making them better in a
way of which no one has the right to be jealous.
There is no partiality, no discrimination. A
more thoroughly democratic device for giving
even chances to all and special privileges to
none could not be imagined, and it is quite con-
ceivable that here in Worcester many a youth
who devotes a fair share of his leisure, out of
working hours, to self-improvement within the
walls of the library may at forty be able to show
himself a better taught man than many another
who in earlier life enjoyed at no little outlay of
time and money the advantages of a university
education. This view of the matter ought
especially to commend itself to the authorities of
a manufacturing city. With the increased use of
labor-saving machinery is sure to come, sooner
or later, a marked decrease in the amount of
time that goes to make a day’s work. How
these reclaimed hours are destined to be spent is
one of the most anxious questions the public
mind can ask itself when looking into the future.
It would be foolish to expect all of them or even
the greater number of them to be given to books
and reading ; but whether the fractional portion
of time so devoted is to be greater or less will
largely depend upon the measure of attractive-
ness with which the city is willing to clothe its
library. Already the institution has proved it-

self a great public educator to an extent which
could scarcely have been anticipated. “We
trust,” wrote Mr, Hoar in 1867, speaking in be-
half of the board of directors, “ We trust the
time will come when the means at the disposal
of the directors will be such that there will be no
book to which any citizen really and earnestly
desires access which will not be supplied in one
or other of the departments of the library.” It
may be said without boasting, but cannot be
said without thanks, that the day thus hopefully
predicted is fully come. It has now been for
some time the settled usage of the library to
supply readers, with the least possible delay,
whatever works they may really need for purposes
of serious inquiry. For a city so dependent as
ours must necessarily be on the intelligence of
its people in competition with rivals more ad-
vantageously situated with respect to tidewater
and fuel, the value of such a reservoir of in-
tellectual power as the Free Public Library can
scarcely be overstated. The fact that great
pains are taken in our Worcester library to
further the efforts of those who come in search
of definite information upon special topics
wonderfully enhances the value of the books
themselves, and adds weight to what has been
said about the educational value of the institution.
At Oxford a few weeks ago, at a meeting held
to devise some suitable memorial of an eminent
member of the university, lately deceased, it was
decided that the very best thing to do would be
to found a library, and in connection with it
provide an ample endowment for the main-
tenance of certain educated librarians whose
duty it should be personally to assist students
in their investigations. The English are always
fond of finding a precedent for whatever they
do, and in this instance they discovered one in
the case of the Ambrosian library of Milan,
which is, it seems, provided with a staff of
librarians trained to aid readers. Had they
looked westward instead of eastward in their
search, these friends of good learning might
have seen in the United States more than one
instance of a library in which just such work as
they had in mind is done to-day.”

iUibliogcafj).

Beauchamps, J. de, and Rouveyre, E. Biblio-
graphie raisonnee et pratique. Tome i, fasc.
1-3. Paris, Rouveyre et Blond, 1882. 1-48

p.+i-iy pi, 8® (in 2 col.).

Each vol. to have 12 bi-monthly fasc. @ 3 fr. ;
finer paper @ 6, io,and 15 fr. To be cont.

Bibliography of E. A. Poe. (In Literary
world, Dec. 16.) col,

Bohn, Emil. Bibliographic der Musik-Druck-
werke bis 1700 welche in der Stadtbibliothek,
der Bibliothek des Academischen Instituts fiir
Kirchenmusik und der Kdniglichen und Uni-

February^ ’83.]

TIIK TJFRARY JOURNAL.

versitats Bibliothek zu Breslau aufbewahrt
werden. Berlin, 1883. 450 p. 8®. 14 m.

Describes 1450 works, mostly for the first
time.

Brivois, Jules. Guide de I’amateur ; bibliog.
des ouvrages illustres du i9e siecle princ. des
livres it gravures sur bois. Paris, P. Rou-
quette, 1883. 13+468 p. 1. O. (950 copies.)

Estrejcher, K. Bibliografia polska. Krakau,
1882. 280 p. 8^. 10 m.

Polish bibliografy. Part 2, v. i, being v. 8
of the whole work, containing a chronological
arrangement of 73,000 Polish books published
1455-1799. Vols. 1-7 appeared 1872-82 (192
III.), but are now out of print.

Face, R. Les oeuvres de Baluze catal. et de-
crites. Tulle, 1882. 119 p. 8”.

Friedekici, K: Bibliotheca orientalis. 1881,
6. Jahrgang. Lpz., O. Schulze, [1882]. 76 p.
2.50 m.

1301 nos. The first part gives the contents
of all Oriental periodicals.

Heinsius, W: Allgemeines Biicherlexikon.
16. Bd., 1875-79, ti^sg. V. O. Kistner. Lpz.,
Brockhaus, 1881-2. 2 v. 812 + 876 p. 4®.

Irel.^.ni), Alexander. Emerson bibliography.
(In Athenceuniy Jan. 13, p. 53.) 2d col.
Without a word of credit, the first section
(more than half of the “Bibliography”) has
bodily been taken from Poole’s “ Index.”

The OLD book-buyer’s guide. Vol. i, no. i.
Phila., Feb., 1883. 8 p. Q.

4 p. of reading matter, and 4 p. of Jordan
Bros.’ catalogue of second-hand books.

M, Giry and M. de Curzon have published in
the Bibliotheque de I’Ecole des Chartes, a com-
plete bibliography of the writings of M. Jules
Quicherat, embracing 13 books and 350 memoirs
published in 35 magazines.

H: Harrisse has added a bibliography (pp.
370-375) to his Jean et Sebastian Cabot, Paris,
Leroux, 1882, 400 p. 1. O.

Gilbert M. Tucker, in his entertaining Amer-
ican English, (pp. 334-360 of Transactions of the
Albany Institute, separately printed with a title-
page, Albany, 1883, O.) gives a bibliography,
pp. 358-360.

Catalogs and cataloging.

East Hampton (Mass.) P. L. .A.ssoc. Catalog.
Boston, Estes & Lauriat. 218 p. O., with
two views of a very pretty library building.
Title-a-liner. Imprints. Simple dictionary.
Providen('e (R. I.) P. L. ist suppl. to the
Finding list. Prov., 1882. 61 p. 1. O.

Authors and titles in one alfabet. Except
in biografies, no subject entries are given ; and
no imprints, the dates referring to the actual pe-
riod of the book.

Univ. of Minnesota Library. Finding lists,

isted., to Sept., 1881. St. Peter, 1881. 8-1-

147 p. O.

Full Names.- -Admiral Paschal Stone (His-
tory of England) ; Wilbur Olin Atwater (Fer-
tilizers, Cooperative experimentings, etc.).

The Cornell “Library,” no. 4, contains a
bibliografical note on St. Bonaventura de mun-
ditia sacerdotum, and continuations of the Ice-
landic and the mathematical catalogues. Har-
v.VRD Univ. L. bulletin for Jan. begins a “ Bib-
liography of Ptolemy’s Geography, by Justin
Winsor,” and “The Carlyle collection,” by W:
C. Lane.” No. 2 of the Philadelphia Merc. Li-
brary’s Bulletin contains “ reading notes on Her-
bert Spencer and his works” (2 p.), and “ Index
to the new classification of the library” (17-!^ p.).

“ For folks who have to do with books, accu-
racy and completeness in the giving of proper
names are quite indispensable. Yet even the
mother of Jakob Grimm might have smiled had
she seen his name expanded to Jakob Ludwig
Karl Grimm, as it is in some library catalogues.
And a personal acquaintance of the Muscovite
linguist, Rudolph Westphal, ventures the asser-
tion that even Westphal himself has forgotten
the other names which conscientious librarians
have inserted in pencil on his title-pages. But
coming years may produce other Grimms, with
Jakob among their Christian names, so that no
less degree of fulness would prove distinctive.
Th i already established /ashion of christening
children with three names, and the gradually
prevailing fashion of printing these in full on
the title-page of books, are on the whole entirely
commendable. Geoffrey Chaucer and William
Shakespeare managed, indeed, to scrape through
tolerably successful literary careers without
middle names, and the latter was as vacillating
in the orthography of his surname as the most
ardent modern spelling reformer could desire ;
albeit the somewhat exceptional character of the
writings of these two eminent men will doubtless
continue for some time longer to distinguish them
sufficiently from possible homonymous rivals to
whom the future may give birth. Far more trou-
blesome to bibliographers than either of these
kinds of cases must be those in which an author’s
name changes while an index is in press or
library-cards are in making. Fancy, for in-
stance, the sighs of the poor cataloguer as he
changes the card-headings of ‘ Adam Bede ’ and
the score that follow it, from ‘ Eliot, George,’ to
‘Evans, Marian,’ and then to ‘ Lewes, Marian
Evans,’ and then to ‘ Cross, Marian Evans
[Lewes],’ and finally, on sober afterthought, back
to the original pseudonym. These sighs have
been heaved and all these changes made in a
well-ordered library not five miles from Boston.”
— Nation, Feb. i.

THE LIBRARY JOURNAL,

YFebriiary^ ’83.

JLitcvature for tijr ^oung.

Edited ev Miss C. M. Hewins, Librarian di’
Har'i'eord Library Association.

Notes and suggestions, from various sources, on read-
ing and the best tise of books, are to be iticluded in this
department.

The following list is selected from books published dur-
ing the late holiday season. A book whose title is given
without a note is a safe one for library use.

Ad.v.ms, W. H. Davenport, ed. Page, squire,
and knight ; a romance of the days of chivalry.
Dost., Estes & Lauriat. D. $1.75.

Adapted from the French of Madame Colomb. Aims
to place before us both the flowery and the thorny side of
the old Feudal System, and, in the words of the editor,
‘ the young reader is shown that the pomp and pageantry
of kniglithood involved much suffering of the poor and op-
pression of the feeble.’ ” — Literary world.
rEsop, and others. The book of fables, chiefly
from yEsop ; chosen and phrased by Horace
E. Scudder. Host., Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
S. 50 c.

Alcott, Louisa M. Aunt Jo’s scrap-bag. V.
6 : An old-fashioned Thanksgiving, etc. Bost.,
Roberts. S. $1.

Alcott, Louisa M. Proverb stories. Bost.,
Roberts. S. $1.25.

Asbjorn.sen, P: Chr. Folk and fairy tales ; tr.
by H. L. Brffikstad, with an introd. by Edm.
W. Gosse. N. Y., Armstrong. II. D. cl.,
$2.50 ; bds., $1.75.

“ The Norwegian peasant kept up the art of story-telling
around the winter fire when it had long been forgotten
elsewhere ; and Asbjornsen began his search in time to col-
lect four volumes of them, from which these are chosen.
Many of them are easily recollected as the common proper-
ty of many nations.” — Boston Advertiser.

Baldwin, Ja. The story of Siegfried ; il. by
Howard Pyle. N. Y., Scribner. D. $2.

“ There are many versions of the fascinating story. Mr.
llaldwin has drawn his materials from all of them, from the
Volsungs’ Saga, the Nibelungen Lied, the Eddas, and the
minor legends of the glorious northern hero. He has intro-
duced as episode the stories of .<Egis, of Balder, of Idun,
and of Thon But the fortunes of Siegfried, and his ad-
ventures with Mimer and Fafnir, Gunther, Brunhild, and
the North Kings, he has followed to the end, to that sad
work of treachery, the death of the hero.” — B Advertiser.

Bartlett, G: B. New games for parlor and
lawn ; with a few old friends in a new dress.
N. Y., Harper. S. $1.

Beard, D. C. What to do, and how to do it :
the American boy’s handy book. N. Y.,
Scribner. D. $3.

” This work is the best we have met to teach a boy what
to do and how to do it in order to construct his playthings,
such as kites, fishing-tackle, aquariums, knots, bends and
hitches, boats, balloons, hunting apparatus,' blow and other
guns, traps, sleds, snow-shoes, and a hundred other things ;
also to stock and keep an aquarium, to fish, to rig and sail
a boat, to camp out, to go bird-nesting, to rear birds, to
hunt, to trap, to make and sail an ice-boat, to make a pup-
pet-show, etc., etc.” — Boston Globe.

Belt and spur : stories of the knights of the
middle ages, from the old chroniclers. N. Y.,
Scribner cS: Welford. D. $2.

” One of the best boys’ books of the season, a collection
of the stories of chivalry from the chroniclers of the Middle
Ages. It begins with Wace’s account of ‘ how Duke Will-
iam and his knights landed in England,’ and ends with
‘ the act of arms between the Lord Scales and the Bastard
of Burgundy ’ in Nation.

Black, W: An adventure in Thule: a story
for young people. N. Y., Harper. Q., pap.,
10 c.

Brush, Mary E. Paul and Persis ; or, the rev-
olutionary struggle in the Mohawk Valley.
Bost., Lee & Shepard. S. $1.25.

Buckley, Arabella B. Winners in life’s race;
or, the great backboned family. N. Y., Apple-
ton. il. D. $1.50.

” A careful examination has revealed no serious errors,
and from incidental remarks it is evident that the author
has resorted to recent and eminent authorities for the facts
which are marshalled with praiseworthy clearness in order-
ly succession. The illustrations, though a trifle coarse in
execution, are fresh, sufficiently accurate, and in a majori-
ty of ca'^es original. There is little poetry, no cant, and no
objectionable sentimentality. The paper and typography
are good, and there is an excellent index.” — Nation.

Bu i terworth, Hezekiah. Zigzag journeys in
the Occident. Bost., Estes & Lauriat. sq.
D. cl., $2.25 ; bds., $1.75.

Chaucer for children ; a golden key, by Mrs.
H. R. Haweis. New ed., rev. N. Y., Scrib-
ner & Welford. O. $2.50.

Church, Rev. Alfred J. Stories from Livy ;
with il. from designs by Pinelli. N. Y., Scrib-
ner & Welford. D. $2.

Coffin, C: Carleton. Building the nation.
N. Y., Harper, sq. O. $3.

” Intended to attract children to a study of the political
and economical growth of the United States. The hi.stori-
cal student might take exceptions to many of the writer’s
most unqualified assertions, and to his generally summary
decisions upon points which are still debatable ; but from
the boy’s point of view there is very little to criticise.” —
Nation.

Eggleston, G; Cary. The wreck of the Red
Bird : a story of the Carolina coast. N. Y.,
Putnam. D. $1.25.

Ewing, Juliana Horatia. Brothers of pity and
other tales of beasts and men. N. Y.,
Young. D. 75 c.

“ The story of the quaint little dreamer is very attractive.
As he pores over pictures in old books his imagination is
fired by the ‘ masked faces and solemn garb’ of the ‘ Fra-
telli della Misericordia,’ who ‘ bind themselves to be ready
in their turn to do certain offices of mercy, pity, and com-
passion to the sick, the dying, and the dead. . . . They
work with covered faces, and are not known even to each
other. . . . Each takes his turn when it comes round to
nurse the sick, carry the dying to hospital, and bury the
dead.’ Musing over the old Italian brotherhood and be-
wailing his youth and weakness, the child determines to be
a Brother of Pity to all little beasts and insects.” — Academy.

French, H; W. Our boys in India. Bost.,
Lee & Shepard, sq. O. $2.50 ; bds., $1.75.

” Sensational, but full of information and of human in-
terest. But is it impossible for a writer to make American
boys talk decent English ? Scott Clayton, who was a very
good youth, and one of the travellers, had, sometimes, a
most unattractive style of conversation, but he improved at
the last. This is one of the most important books for
young people that has appeared this sea.son.” — Boston Ad-
vertiser.

Gautier, Th^ophile. My household of pets ; tr.
by Susan Coolidge. Bost., Roberts, sq. S.

$1-25.

Greey, E: The golden lotus, and other legends
of Japan. Bost., Lee & Shepard, sq. D.
$i.50-

‘‘ Adults will find an after-dinner hour well spent in
chuckling over the pages of this book of faultless typog-
raphy, and the young folks will learn how the children of
Japan think, dream, and play.”—

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Greky, E: The wonderful city of Tokio. Bost.,
Lee & Shepard, sq. O. $2.50 ; bds., $1.75.

“ Every page of the book betrays the author’s thorough
familiarity with the Japanese character, both human and
typographic, and he gives us a picture of New Japan,
snowing how at every turn the old and the new civilization
jostle each other. The old quaint and pleasing supersti-
tions are being hustled away before the meaner supersti-
tions of trade and Mammon. The book is both fascinating
and instructive, despite the monotonous gestures and be-
havior of Sally and Fitz.” — Nation.

Hale, E: E. Stories of discovery told by dis-
coverers. Bost., Roberts. S. $1.

“ Begins with the first voyage of Columbus, and narrates
briefly the more important sea-voyages of discovery of the
last three centuries, Bruce’s African explorations, and the
opening up of the country west of the Mississippi. It is
almost unnecessary to say that Dr. Hale knows how to
make a book for boys.” — Sttnday-school times.

Hale, E: E. and Susan. A family flight over
Egypt and Syria. Bost., Lothrop. il. sq. O.
$2.50 and $3.

Harris, Amanda B. Wild-flowers, and where
they grow ; il. by Miss L. B. Humphrey.
Bost, Lothrop. sq. O. $3.

Irving, Fannie Belle. Six girls : a home story ;
il. by F. T. Merrill, {New issue. '\ Bost,,
Estes & Lauriat. D. $1.50.

“ Plainly the work of a young American woman who
can neither spell nor write English ; and, no matter how
racy the style nor how full of incident the story, how can
the critic recommend a book that is written with culpable
carelessness, if not ignorance, of which the veriest school-
girl should be ashamed ?” — Independent.

Higginson, T; Wentworth. Young folks’ his-
tory of the United States. New ed., brought
down to Arthur’s administration, Bost., Lee
& Shepard. D. $1.50.

Johnson, Rossiter. History of the French war.
N. Y., Dodd, Mead & Co. D. (Minor wars
of the U. S.) $1,25.

Johnson, Rossiter. History of the war of
1812-15 between the United States and Great
Britain. N. Y., Dodd, Mead & Co. il. D.
(Minor wars of the U. S.) $1.25.

Kingston, W: H: G. James Braithwaite, the
supercargo ; story of his adventures ashore
and afloat. N. Y., Armstrong. D. $1.50.
Knox, T: W. Boy travellers in the far East.
Pt, 4 : Adventures of two youths in a journey
to Egypt and the Holy Land. N. Y., Harper,
sq. O. I3.

Lillie, Lucy C. Mildred’s bargain, and other
stories. N. Y., Harper, sq. S. $1.

“ A collection of six stories. Three of them evidently
written for young girls, the other three for children.”—
Literary world.

MacDonald, G: The princess and Curdie.
Phil., Lippincott. D. $1.25.

“ Poetry thinly disguised in exquisite prose. It is a
charming allegory intended for children, but will prove
equally interesting to ‘ children of a larger growth.’ It is
deeply religious, although the name of the Deity does not
occur in it. Its influence can be only be for good.” — Liter-
ary world.

Miller, Olive Thorne. Little people of Asia.

N. Y., Dutton, sq. O, $2.50.

Morw^ood, Vernon S. Facts and phases of
animal life, interspersed with amusing and
original anecdotes. N. Y., Appleton. D.
$1.50.

It would be useless to multiply extracts to show how

worse than worthless is this miserable compilation. The
‘ anecdotes ’ consist largely of obnoxious stories conspicu-
ously silly, teeming with errors of fact, often superstitious
or ludicrously credulous. It is a book which should not be
put into the hands of any child. The illustrations are
mostly old, worn cuts, which seem in part to have been
taken from spelling-books of a past generation. The press-
work and binding are good, and are the only good things
about this publication, though the author is styled on the
title-page ‘ Lecturer to the Royal Society for the Preven-
tion of Cruelty to Animals.’ ” — Nation.

Omer, F: a. Young folks’ history of Mexico.
Bost., Estes & Lauriat. S. (Young folks’
hist.) $1.50.

“ We do not know of any other accessible history of
Mexico from the earliest times to the present, and Mr.
Ober has done his work with great industry and thorough-
ness.” — Nat io n .

Oswald, Felix L. Zoological sketches : a con-
tribution to the outdoor study of natural his-
tory. Phil., Lippincott, O. $2.

Percy, T: The boy’s Percy : old ballads of
war, adventure, and love, from Bishop T.
Percy’s “ Reliques of ancient English po-
etry ed. for boys with an introduction by
Sidney Lanier. N. Y., Scribner. D. $2.50.

” I know that he who walks in the way these following
ballads point will be manful in necessary fight, fair in trade,
loyal in love, generous to the poor, tender in the house-
hold, prudent in living, plain in speech, merry upon occa-
sion, simple in behavior, and honest in all things.” — Intro-
duction.

Rideing, W: H. Boys in the mountains and on
the plains ; or, the western adventures of Tom
Smart, Bob Edge, and Peter Small. N. Y.,
Appleton, sq. O. $2.50.

Scudder, Horace E. The Bodley grandchildren
and their journey in Holland. Bost., Hough-
ton, Mifflin & Co. il. sq. O. bds., $1.50.

” The new Bodleys with the old go to Holland to pick
out the connection between Dutch and American history.
The framework is the same lively and piquant narrative as
of old, and the filling instructive fact with plenty of pict-
ures. Evidently both author and publishers find the
Bodleys too profitable a family to be allowed to die out,
and a large section of the juvenile reading public will be
glad that they show themselves bound to keep up the
race.” — Literary world.

Shaw, Flora L. Phyllis Browne. Bost., Rob-
erts. S. $1.

“ One closes this admirably written story with sincere
regret that so charming a book should be deformed by two
or three painfully sensational chapters. The characters of
the Polish lad, of plucky Katie, and of the sweet and brave
Phyllis, are well drawn and consistent thoughout ; but
they are brought into most undreamed of and tragic situa-
tions. For girls and boys in their teens, the story will be,
however, attractive and rich in good lessons. For younger
children, it is too exciting to be wholesome reading.” —
Christian register.

Stockton, Frank R. Ting-a-ling tales ; il. by
E. B. Bensell. {New ed.'\ N. Y., Scribner.
S. $1.

Stoddard, W: O. Saltillo boys. N. Y.,
Scribner. D. $1.

Stoddard, W. O. The talking leaves : an In-
dian story. N. Y., Harper, sq. S. $1.
Strickland, Agnes. The queens of England ;
abridged and adapted from Strickland’s
‘‘Queens of England,” by Rosalie Kaufman.
Bost., Estes & Lauriat. sq. S. (Young
folks’ hist.) $1.50.

Towle, G: M. Drake : the sea-king of Devon.
Bost., Lee & Shepard. S. $1.25.

THP. LrBRARY JOURNAL.

[^February, '83.

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ititratj) ^iJurcljase^Jiist.

A SKLECriON OF NEW 1500KS, WTIH NOTES OF
COMMENDAT ION OR CAUTION.

Books mcniioned without notes can, as a rule, be safely
purchased for the general reader. The binding, tinless
otherwise expressed, is generally understood to be iti
cloth.

A RGEL, Maggie. ['‘The Duchess”] Por-
tia. Phil., Lippincott. D. $1.25 ; pap., 40 c.

“ The author of ‘ Molly Bawn ’ and ‘ Airy Fairy Lilian ’
has won a place for herself, and her last novel, ‘ Portia,’ will
be sure of readers, but it will not altogether please them. It
is a rather painful story, told in this author’s sprightly man-
ner.”— Literary world.

Adams, Herbert B. The Germanic origin of
Ne.vv England towns. Balt., O. (Johns
Hopkins Univ. studies), pap., 40 c.
Baghavad-gita (The) ; or, the sacred lay : a
Sanskrit philosophical poem ; tr. with introd.
and notes by J: Davies. Bost., Houghton,
Mifflin & Co. O. (Eng. and for. philos. lib j
$3-50.

Baldwin, Ja. Introduction to the study of
English literature and literary criticism : de-
signed for the use of schools, seminaries, col-
leges and universities. In 2 v. V. i : Poetry.
Phil., Potter. D. $2.50.

Bancroft, G: History of the United States
from the discovery of the continent to the es-
tablishment of the constitution in 1789. Neiv
ed., partly rewritten and thoroughly revised.
In 6 V. V. I. N. Y., Appleton. O. $2.50.
” On comparing this with the corresponding volume of
the ‘ Centenary ’ edition of 1876, one is surprised to see how
e.xtensive changes the author has found desirable, even
after so short an interval. The comparison of the three
editions illustrates his untiring energy and faithfulness of
preparation, as well as, perhaps, a certain restlessness and
captiousness of self-criticism. . . . There is an excellent
analytic table of contents. But the new arrangement is
not the result merely of subdivision : the matter is rear-
ranged in such a manner as vastly to increase the lucidity
and continuousness of treatment.” — Nation.

Barrington’s fate. Bost., Roberts. S. (No
Name ser.) $1.

“One of the best of the recent novels.” — Boston Ad-
vertiser.

Bartlett, J; Russell. Familiar quotations.
%th ed., greatly enlarged. Bost., Little, Brown
& Co. D. $3 ; hf. cf., $5.

Bent, S: Arthur. Short sayings of great men ;
with historical and explanatory notes. Bost. ,
Osgood. O. $3.

“ Each mot has a short explanatory note giving the time
and circumstances under which it was said, written, or, as
in the ca.se of Gen. Dix C Shoot him on the spot ’), tele-
graphed. Has indexes of authors and sayings.”
Bloomfield. Georgiana, Baroness. Reminiscen-
ces of court and diplomatic life under Queen
Victoria. 2 v. N. Y., Putnam. O. $7.50.
— Same, N. Y., Munro (Seaside lib.) pap., 20 c.

” Lady Bloomfield held for several years the post of
lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria, and then married the
Hon. Mr. Bloomfield, who was for over fifty yeais in the
English diplomatic service as MinLster at the courts of St.
Petersburg, Berlin, and Vienna.” — Chicago Tribune.

“ A chatty and entertaining work.”

Brink, Bernhard ten. Early English literature
(to Wiclif) ; from the German by H. M.
Kennedy. N. Y., Holt. D. $2.25.

“ We commend it most heartily to the earnest study of

every lover of English literature. The writer is a master
of his subject, and holds all the details in a firm gra.sp. For
the first time since we have had a literature, we are able 10
read its primal history in a coherent and intelligible
shape.” — Nation.

Br INTON, Daniel G., M.D. American hero-
myths. Phil., Watts. O. cl., $1.75.

Dr. Brinton says, “ Nearly all historians continue to
write about some of the American hero-gods as if they had
been chiefs of tribes at some undetermined epoch.” The
object of this book is to show the true character of these
hero-myths. — Phila. Telegraph.

Browne, Irving. Law and lawyers in litera-
ture. Bost., Soule & Bugbee. D. net, $1.50.

The design is to show by extracts how the law and
lawyers have been treated in literature by historians,
novelists, poets, moralists, essayists and satirists.

Browning, Rob. Lyrical and dramatic poems,
sel. from the works of Robert Browning ; ed.
by E: T. Mason. N. Y., Holt. D. $2.

“ Selected with special reference to the large number of
readers who can enjoy those portions of his poetry which
are clear and melodious, and do not enjoy those which tax
the ingenuity and fail to please the ear.”

Buell, Walter. Joshua R. Giddings : a sketch.
Cleveland, O., W: W. Williams. D. $1.

” Biography of a noted opponent of slavery and a promi-
nent American statesman, b. 1795, d. 1864; was for 21
years a Member of Congress, where he was noted for his
great oratorical powers.’’

Caine, T. Hale. Recollections of Dante Ga-
briel Rossetti. Bost., Roberts. O. $3.

“ Mr. Caine gives us more of the man and Mr. Sharpe
more of his works.” — Boston Advertiser.

Carter, Rev. Andrew, and Watt, Francis.

Picturesque Scotland ; its romantic scenes

and historical associations, described in lay,
legend, song, and story, with an account of
the national sports and games of the High-
lands. N. Y., Wiley. 6 pi. and 125 il. O.
^ $2.50.

^Cleveland, Nehemiah. History of Bowdoin
College, completed by A. S. Packard. Bost.,

Osgood. O. $5..

Cohn, Morris M. Essay on the growth of law.

Chic., Callaghan. D. $1.50.

Diltz, H. P. The Duchesse Undine. Phil.,
Peterson, sq. S. pap., 75 c.

” A hysterical aberration.” — Chtc. Tribune.

Farrar, F: W. Early days of Christianity.
Cheap ed. N. Y., Cassell, Petter, Galpin &
Co. O. 75 c. ; pap., 40 c.

” Those who have read Canon Farrar’s former works will
be sure that the narrative portion will be conducted with
fascinating eloquence ; that every page will furnish evidence
of wide reading and refined culture ; that, combined with
reverence for Christianity as the supreme and perfect relig-
ion, there will be everj-where apparent a generous apprecia-
tion of whatever may be true and good in other systems ;
that questions affecting traditional opinions will be discussed
in a scholarly fashion, and with an air of the most entire in-
dependence, but without the concession of any really impor-
tant point.” — R. B. Drummond in the Academy.

Forrester, Airs. I have lived and loved.
Phil., Lippincott. S. $t.

” The book is full of wretchedness— the wretchedness that
comes of selfishness, untruth, dereliction in duty, and is
enough to give a sensitive organization the nightmare.” —
Literary world.

Francillon, R; E. Quits at last. N. Y., Q.

(Harper’s Franklin sq. lib.) pap., 15 c.
Franzos, Karl Emil. The Jews of Barnow :
stories ; from the German by M. W. Mac-
dowall. N. Y., Appleton. S. $1.

“The author has felt keenly how degraded is the social

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position, how depraved is the moral tone, of the Jews in
Austrian Poland ; and he has done his best to call atten-
tion to some of their rare virtues, to create an interest in
their dreafy lives.” — Saturday Review.

Freeman, E; A. Introduction to American in-
stitutional history. Balt. 39 p. O. (Johns
Hopkins Univ. studies.) pap., 25 c.

Froude, Ja. Anthony. Short studies on great
subjects. <\th ser. N. Y., Scribner. D. $1.50.

” His account of John Henry Newman and the Tractari-
an movement derives special importance and vividness
from the intimate relations in which Mr. Froude stood to
Mr. Newman and others. The other articles are : ‘ Life
and times of Thomas Becket,’ ‘Origin and Celsus,’ ‘A
siding at a railway station,’ ‘ Cheneys and the house of
Russell,’ ‘ A Cagliostro of the second century.’ ”

Geddie, J: The Russian Empire — historical
and descriptive. D. N. Y., T. Nelson &
Sons. $2.

” His historical authorities are "scanty, his principal one
being Rambaud ; but he has made good use of his materi-
als in general, and his book will be found instructive read-
ing.”— Nation.

Geikie, Archibald. Geological sketches at
home and abroad. N. Y., Fitzgerald. O.
(Humboldt lib.) pap., 15 c.

Gerhard, W: P; House drainage and sanitary
plumbing ; repr. from Van Nostrand' s Maga-
zine. N. Y., Van Nostrand. T. (Van Nos-
trand’s sci. ser.) bds., 50 c.

Gibbon, C: The golden shaft : a novel. N. Y.,
Q. (Harper’s Franklin sq. lib.) pap., 20 c.

” The story is interesting, the plot is most ingeniously de-
vised, the characters are cleverly conceived and consistently
drawn.” — Sat. review.

Hale, P; M., co7np. The woods and timbers
of North Carolina. N. Y., E. J. Hale & Son.
D. $1.25.

Harris, Jos. Gardening for young and old :
the cultivation of garden vegetables in the
farm garden. N. Y., Orange Judd Co. D.
$1.25.

Haussonville, Vicomte de. The salon of Mme.
Necker ; from the French by H: M. Trollope,
N. Y., Munro. Q. (Seaside lib.) pap., 20 c.

” To some, her principal interest may seem to be that she
happened to be the beloved of a very remarkable lover [Gib-
bon], the^wife of a very remarkable husband, the mother of a
very remarkable daughter [Mme. de Stael]. But, however
insolent a game Fortune may choose to play, she does not
usually put in such a group of relations a person who is not
remarkable herself.” — Athenceum.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Twice-told tales.
[Riverside ed.] Bost., Houghton, Mifflin &
Co. D. $2.

The first volume of an entirely new edition, from new
electrotype plates, of the works of Hawthorne, with intro-
ductory notes by G: P. Laihrop,

Hunt, W: M. Talks on art. 2d ser., ed. by
Miss H. M. Knowlton. Bost., Houghton,
Mifflin & Co. O. $1.

“The matter is very uneven in style and quality. All
of it, however, is chai-acteristic.” — Boston Advertiser.

Johnston, R: Malcolm. [“ Philemon Perch.”]
Dukesborough tales. N. Y., Q. (Harper’s
Franklin sq. lib.) pap., 25 c.

” Among the best chpacter studies that we have ever
seen, the characters in this instance being such as are native
to Middle Georgia in recent and antebellum days.” — R, W.
Stoddard in the Mail and express.

Keary, Annie. Memoir of Annie Keary, by
her sister. Macmillan. D. $2.

*• This story of a singularly sweet and beautiful life, told

simply and unassumingly by the only person who could tell
it aright, has a strange pathos. The incidents in it are
nothing ; there is little variety, little that is tragic, until the
brave, uncomplaining end ; yet the life is intensely interest-
ing.”— A thencEum.

King, C: The colonel’s daughter ; or, winning
his spurs. Phil., Lippincott. D. $1.50.

“Life in our Western army is described with great
fidelity and vitality.” — Bostoji Advertiser.

Lanman, C: Leading men of Japan. Bost.,
Lothrop. D. $2.

“ Brief biographical sketches of distinguished Japanese
statesmen, soldiers, and scholars, drawn mainly from na-
tive sources, and a reprint of the author’s bird’s-eye view
of the history of Japan, from ‘Johnson’s Encyclopaedia,’
with additions. There is a useful bibliography at the end
of the volume, but no index.” — Boston A dvertiser .

Lee, Margaret. Divorce. N. Y., Lovell. S.
50 c.

“ A strong, straightforward presentation of the way in
which modern families are separated by the cruel and in-
congruous laws of different States.” — Christian Intelli-
gencer.

Lock, Alfred G. Gold : its occurrence and
extraction ; embracing the geographical and
geological distribution and the mineralogical
characters of gold-bearing rocks ; ed. by C:
G. Warnford Lock. N. Y., Spon. O. $20.
Machiavelli, Niccolo. Historical, political,
and diplomatic writings ; from the Italian by
Christian E. Detmold. Bost., Osgood. 4 v.
O. $15 ; hf. cf., $30.

“ Mr. Detmold has produced a rendering which is
clear, fluent, and eminently ‘readable.’ Along with the
translation he gives a brief sketch of the facts of Machia-
velli’s life, taken cJtiefly from the biography by Luigi
Passerini ; and in a preface he discusses in an inde-
pendent and intelligent spirit some of the problems sug-
gested by Machiavelli’s character and career. Mr. Det-
mold also provides careful reproductions of portraits of
Machiavelli, Lorenzo de Medici, and Caesar Borgia, and
a representation of Machiavelli’s tomb in the Church of
Santa Croce, Florence. Altogether, the volumes are most
attractive, and ought to do much both in England and
in America to promote the study of one of the most illus-
trious of Italian writers.” — St. James Gazette.

Malet, Lucas. Mrs. Lorimer : a sketch. N.Y.,
Appleton. S. $1.

“ Exposition of the feelings of a woman of our own day,
demanding, from the materials within her reach in this our
resent world, the happiness she feels her nature has been
orn to and intended for. Her story is one of questioning
times, sceptical of future possibilities, concerned only with
present elements.” — London News.

Mollett, J; W. An illustrated dictionary of
words used in art and archaeology. Bost.,
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. il. sm. Q. $5.

“ It is and professes to be a compilation and condensation
of several large and expensive books. Probably, almost
10,000 terms are quoted and explained in the book. The
peculiar value of the book is in the illustrations, which are
many — sometimes there are five on a single page— these are
well done, and are indispensable. The reader can see that
no words can express the shape of a cylix or the purposes of
a tabard as one of these illustrations does. It is, in short,
a valuable hand-book.” — N. Y. Tribune.

Murray, D. Christie. Val Strange : a story
of the Primrose Way. N. Y., Q. (Harper’s
Franklin sq. lib.) pap., 20 c.

Pabor, W: E. Colorado as an agricultural
state. N . Y. , Orange Judd Co. D. $1.50.
Payn, Ja. Kit; a memory: a novel. N. Y.,
Q. (Harper’s Franklin sq. lib.) pap., 20 c.
Perrot, Georges and Chipiez C: The history
of art in ancient Egypt : tr. and ed. bv Wal-

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[Eebriiary, ’83.

ter Armstrong. N. Y., Armstrong. 2 v.,
sm. O. 600 il., I15 ; tky. mor., $25.

“ To say that this magnificent work is the best history of
Egyptian art that we possess is to state one of the least of
its titles to the admiration of all lovers of antiquity, Egyp-
tian or other. No other work can compare with it for method
or completeness.” — Saturday Review in a review of the
French edition.

Pkyton, J: L. History of Augusta Co., Va.

Staunton, Va., S: M: Yost & Son. O. $3.50.
Pond, G: E. The Shenandoah v Iley in 1864.
N. Y., Scribner. D. $1.

“ One of the best volumes of the series ; in laying down
this book, the military reader, at least, cannot fail to be re-
minded of what the lapse of 20 years has done in the way
of settling and ascertaining the truth as to the matters here,
treated.” — N. Y. Times.

Rice, Harvey. Pioneers of the Western re-
serve. Bost., Lee & Shepard. D. $1.50.

” Not properly a history, but an informal narration of
some of the early haps and mishaps of pioneer life. Fights
with the Indians, midnight assassinations, and episodes of
starvation are interspersed in these relations with reminis-
cences of frontier frolics, of old-fashioned and not too re-
fined jokes, and tragedies of accident.” — N. Y. Tribune.
SCHERR, J. A history of English literature ;
from the German by M. B. N. Y., Scribner
& Welford. O. III. 75.

Sharp, W. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, N. Y.,
Macmillan. D. $3.

See notice under Caine, T. Hale.

Steele, Ja. W. Froniier army sketches.

Chic., Jansen, McClurg & Co, D. $1.50.
Stein, Armin. Count Erbach : a story of the
Reformation ; from the German by Ja. I.
Helm, D.D. N. Y., Randolph. D. $1.25.

Martin Luther is the central figure of this story, which
graphically narrates the gradual influence of the Reforma-
tion upon Count Erbach and his family, and their final
change to Protestantism.

Streeter, Edwin W. The great diamonds of
the world ; history and romance ; ed. by Jos.
Hatton and A. H. Keane, N. Y. Q. (Har-
per’s Franklin sq. lib.) pap., 20 c.

Veitch, J: Hamilton. Phil., Lippincott.

(Philos, classics for Eng. readers.) D. $1.25.

“A concise, handy, and satisfactory biography. ... a
little dry.” — American.

Walker, Francis A. Political economy.
N, Y., Holt. D. (Am. sci. ser.) $2.25.

” Not so much a treatise in itself as a thorough digest of
all previous treatises on the subject, illustrated by facts,
statistics and parallels, and peculiarly adapted to national
requirements. Every question is openly approached and
critically e.xamined, not on one, nor on both, but on all
sides.” — New York Tribune.

W1LLLA.MS, G: F. Bullet and shell. N. Y.,
Fords, Howard & Hulbert. O. sttbs., $2.75
and $3.25.

“Written without prejudice or passion and under the
guise of fiction, includes the events of 1861-65.”

Williams, G: W. History of the negro race
in America, 1619-1880. In2v.,V. i. N. Y.,
Putnam. O. $3.50. |

“ The fact that a man of color has conceived such a work, I
and that he has had the patience as well as the ability to I
carry out his conception, is more significant than the work [
itself. For, in spite of his shortcomings as a historian, he ,
has put hi-, race in a new attitude to civilization and given [
it a new dignity in the thought of men. Few of [his I
f-iults of treatment] detract from the great merits of thorough
and patient labor and unimpeachable fairness. The history
will always remain a valuable book of reference.” — Ameri-
can. I

Enoupms anh ^seuhongms.

Ca npaign of the 45^// Reg M. V.M., the Cadet
Regiment; [by C: Eustis Hubbard]. Boston,
1882. 1. O.

Lesson in love. Boston, Osgood, 1881. S.
(Round-robin series.) — Mr. Bynner says that he
is not the author.

Bolton Rowe. — “Under this pseudonym Mr.
B. C. Stephenson has already distinguished him-
self by his careful adaptation of French senti-
ment to the English stage.” — London Times.

B'. Anstey (Vice versa). — F. Anstey Guthrie. —
Critic.

Mr. Philemon Perch — The first nine stories
of R: Malcolm Johnston’s “ Dukesborough
tales ” were originally published under this
pseudonym.

A 'J'ribtine “ note” tells us that some of Mr.
Trollope’s characters are easily recognizable.
“ Mr. Gresham” is Mr. Gladstone ; “ Mr. Dan-
berry” Mr. Disraeli — or rather Lord Beacoris-
field ; while “ Lord de Terrier,” was intended,
it is said, for the late Lord Derby. ” Mr. Plan-
tagenet Palliser” has been identified sometimes
as Lord Carlingford.

JBtotes aiitt ©uetks,

Mr. a. Cotgreave, of the Richmond (Eng.)
P. L., has invented a ‘‘ Long-Reacher, ” de-
signed for use in libraries (public or private),
and booksellers’ shops. It ” will be found,” he
says, ” an immense saving of labor and time in
lifting down books from high shelves, and where
not too tightly packed, replacing them again ;
ladders being thus almost entirely dispensed
with. It is fitted with a lamp when required^
for the purpose of throwing a light upon shelves
in dark corners, where the titles of books, etc.,
cannot be seen by the ordinary light. It is com-
posed almost entirely of metal, and its mechani-
cal action is not complex, so that if working
loose or in any other way getting out of order
(which is very unlikely) a child could easily put
it right again. It has been exhibited and tried
at the libraries of the House of Commons, and
several other public institutions, and has every-
where given great satisfaction. Prices run from
25J-., according to size, strength, and purpose
for which they are required.”

Book registry. {See Lib. jnl. 8 : 16.) For
such a library as H. T. C. asks about, I think the
simplest plan of book register would be the en-
closed : Keep two books— for 2000 or 3000 vol-
umes a cap blank-book for each account would
be ample. Give each applicant a place in the
book : an alphabetical arrangement would be
best, but for 100 or 200 readers not really neces-
sary. A printed card given to each reader with
the number on it will be the guide to his or her
account.

The other book will have to be large enough

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to receive the numbers of all the books and space
to add new accessions. When John Smith takes
out a book, register in lead pencil the date (as in
first column) ; second, the number of the book
loaned ; third, the date of return. In the other
book, opposite the number of the book, place the
card-number of the person receiving the volume.

When the book is returned, cancel the book-
number in the one book and the reader’s number
in the other.

This mode will tell you what book any reader
has out, if you desire to know, or who has a book
asked for, and the length of time it is away from
the library.

These suggestions are only intended for small
libraries, such as H. T. C.’s, but will prove simple
and efficient. This plan would seem to me ap-
propriate for rural library associations.

Respectfully, William Kite.

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John Smith.

Mary Jones.

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It will save me a great deal of time and labor
if I can have our catalog printed directly from
the cards ; this of course would soil the cards,
but is it necessary to keep them in the accus-
tomed place after we have a printed catalog?
Can I not box them up and put them away for
safe keeping ? M.

I see no reason why you should not print
from cards. When you once get your matter
on a page, you will never want to look at those
cards except to find the origin of some mistake.
They should be kept, however, for they might
be needed to print a consolidated catalog from
at sonie future time. The Boston Athenaum
prints its “ List of additions” from cards and
continues to use the cards. Careful compositors

do not soil them ; indeed, they need not be
touched by the printer except to turn each over
with his nail, when he has set the title. They
should be kept in a little pasteboard box, with a
back and sides, but no front, attached to the
compositors’ stand. C.

ffienecal |lotcs.

The Congressional library bill, it is now
thought, may be passed this session, the site
to be Armory Square, government land, the cost
$1,500,000, the plan Mr^. Smithmeyer’s renais-
sance design.

Bunsen’s library has been presented by his
son, Baron G: von Bunsen, to the library of the
High School of Korbach, in Waldeck, in which
old town (now scarcely more than a village)
Bunsen was born in 1791.

The library of Rev. Dr.Krauth, the late Vice-
Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, is
valued at $60,000 and will be presented by the
family to some public institution, in accordance
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The Bridgeport (Conn.) Public Library,
whose books formerly belonged to the Calliopean
Society of Yale College, is to receive a bequest
of property worth between $75,000 and $100,000
from Mrs. Pettengill, widow of Hon. A. A.
Pettengill.

The Franklin collection of Mr. H: Stevens,
which has been purchased by the Government
of the United States, has been handed over to
Mr. Lowell. The manuscripts are by the Act
of Congress to be deposited in the Hall of
Records in the State Department at Washing-
ton, and the printed books in the Library of
.Congress.

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other day whether recent newspaper strictures
upon certain works of fiction had had any effect
I there. “ They have had the effect of making
[ all sorts of people inquire for the books spoken
I against,” was the response. This, however, is
; not so appalling as it may look to many good
people. It illustrates the curiosity, not necessa-
j rily the depravity, of human nature. — Boston
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The Palermo National Library celebrated
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in 1782 with the volumes taken from the library
of the Jesuits, whose order was suppressed
about that time, but on being reinstated in the
early part of this century they took possession
again of their former property. They were
driven out a second time is 1848, but came back
in 1850, in which year the library numbered
40,000 volumes. Sent out of the country a third
time in i860, the Jesuits had to give up once
more, and the present administration have in-
creased the library to 120,000 volumes and 3000
manuscripts.

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Letters of Lydia Maria Child.

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The Co-operative Index; The New York FreeCir-
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New England Libraries, 48

Library Economy and History 49

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Notes and Queries. . . .
Anonyms and Pseudonyms .
Literature for the Young.
Library Purchase List . .
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E. C. Richardson, Hosmer Hall, Hartford,
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New Englander.

T. P. W. Rogers, Fletcher Free L., Cornhill,
Portfolio.

T. H. Safford, Williams College L., N. Amer-
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Miss M. E. Sargent, Middlesex Mech. Inst.,
Lowell, Mass., Harper, Blackwood.

W. K. Stetson, Wesleyan Univ. L., Spectator,
Saturday rev.

Miss E. F. Whitney, Concord P. L., Living
age.

S. F. Whitney, Watertown P. L., Library
journal.

The following periodicals are still seeking in-
dexers :

Antiquary.
Bibliographer.
Catholic world.
Chambers’.
Colburn.

Knowledge.
National Review.
Science.

Temple bar.

Van Nostrand.

It is to be hoped that our English friends will
participate in the good work.

The New York Free Circulating Library has
hit upon a plan for raising funds which is
worthy of consideration by other impecunious
boards of trustees. A “Womans Fund’’ has
been established, the income of which is to be
devoted to the employment of women in the
library. It is an ingenious device. It says to
friends of woman’s right to labor, “You can
kill two birds with one stone ; by a single gift
you will at once instruct the poor of New York,
and give employment to that particular class of

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[March-Ap.^ ’83.

the poor in which you are specially interested ;
you will at once benefit the library and advance
your favorite reform.” Note also that this
brings in gifts for a department of the library
which few donors are likely to remember. To
give for the purchase of books or the erection
of a building is common ; to give for adminis-
trative expenses is extremely rare. One reason
has been that there is no fame to be gained by
it. A book can be labelled with the donor’s
name ; a building can be called after its founder ;
but money given for current expenses is swal-
lowed up and forgotten. Besides people are
interested in books and in architecture ; they
offer definite objects for feelings of generosity.
Few persons are interested in library work but
librarians ; few persons think of its necessity ;
it has not acquired a status among the regular
testamentary outlets for American fortunes.

Mr. Alfred E. Whittaker, Librarian of the
Mercantile Library of San Francisco, despairing
of seeing a Conference of Librarians on the Pa-
cific Coast “ in substance,” has made up his
mind to “be satisfied with the shadow,” and
accordingly sends out a circular to his brother
librarians asking for their folografs. It would
not be a bad plan for librarians to establish
librarians’ fotografic albums, each in his own
library, giving his own portrait in exchange for
those which he would collect. To exchange with
the 3000 librarians in the country, however,
would be too much of a burden. It would prob-
ably be necessary to draw the line at members
of the American Library Association.

Mr. John Hallam, an alderman of Toronto,
has undertaken the establishment of free public
libraries in Toronto. The pamphlet of which
we give the title in another place led the way.
Mainly by his influence the local legislature
passed an act (Ont. stat., ch. 22) for the estab-
lishment of free libraries, with or without the
adjuncts of a free newsroom or a museum, the
management being vested in a board on which
the public school board of the municipality is
directly represented. But this act. like the Eng-
lish libraries act, is merely permissive. The
rate-payers may tax themselves for this object.
It was necessary to persuade the property owners
of Toronto to saddle themselves with a new tax,
a task which is nowhere very easy. Mr. Hal-
lam was not dismayed, and after a lively fight

won the day. 1500 posters were displayed on
the walls. 17,000 circulars went through the mails,
and 16,000 Christmas cards were distributed to
the school-children, with such inscriptions as
“Vote for the Free Library on New Year’s Day.”
The consequence was the largest vote ever cast
on any municipal scheme requiring the expendi-
ture of money and a majority of nearly two to
one in favor of the library. The half-mill rate
will produce $31,000 a year— not a bad income
for a population of 96,000— and Mr. Hallam has
devised a scheme for the issue of bonds, the
interest and sinking fund to be paid out of the
rates, which will give the library money enough
at once to erect a sufficient building and purchase
some 50,000 volumes and yet leave over $15,000
for current expenses. Plainly if the library fails
it will not be for want of energy in its promoter.

NEW ENGLAND LIBRARIES.

To the North, to the South, to the West, they
stand, the New England Libraries, throwing
out strong, steady pulses of light and happiness
into the surrounding darkness. First, to the
north of us, the elegant Concord Library, with its
parlor-like reading-room, over which preside the
crayon portrait of the large-eyed Thoreau and the
sweet smile of young Emerson ; without, in sum-
mer, is the English-like sward, rich and sweet ;
and within a unique aroma of genius, a kind of
quintessence of idealism, so hallowed and so
sacred is the place. Here in one drawer are
Thoreau’s plant-books, bound by himself in sail-
cloth ; and here in another drawer are por-
traits and manuscripts of Hawthorne and Emer-
son.

Moving still farther north, do you see those
imposing and handsome structures in Andover,
in Haverhill, in Newburyport ? Do you find
such libraries in the West, in New York, in the
Middle States ? We have never seen such in the
small cities there ; such comfortable and solidly-
elegant arrangements for readers ; such cata-
logues, system, quiet, and order. The compara-
tively new library of Newburyport is a marvel for
plain, rich decoration (woodwork of light ash),
abundance of sunshine, spaciousness. The refer-
ence-room looks like a private parlor. Can
it be possible that there are any gamins in New-
buryport ? Apparently not ; else why such royal
furnishings in a free public library?

Return now to Boston, look westward, peep
into the public library at Worcester, and get a
sight that will salve a mind daily hurt by the hid-
eousness of a nation without manners. In the
patient toil of that librarian to enlighten, encour-
age, stimulate the reading of the young, you see
the salvation of democracy. Then at Springfield
is a library doing an immense amount of good
among the manufacturing population. Here they
have recently opened a beautiful reading-room
for periodicals.

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Southward there is a fine little public library
at Saybrook, the original seat of Yale College,
whose rich library at New Haven is one of the
pleasantest to work in that you can imagine. In
fact, we always find the college libraries the best
places for actual work on the premises. We
would except only one library in the country,
namely, the library of the Boston Athenseum,
the delightful coziness and quiet of which re-
mind one of those “ bowers of paradise ” at the
Bodleian, as the floors remind one of the British
Museum reading-room. But for absolute con-
venience of reference-books, there is perhaps
no library that begins to equal that of Harvard
University. The books in the delivery-room are
precisely the ones that the scholar most needs ;
in fact, the reference shelves are a miniature of
the whole library. What infinite comfort there
is in that blessed row of help-books above the
card catalogue of authors ! Combine the refer-
ence-books of the delivery-room with the re-
served books of the alcoves, and you have a tool-
shop of vast range and excellence. And the man-
agement of the delivery department is most
soothing to the irritated nerves of the book-
hunter ; perfect courtesy, clock-like system, well-
trained boys, who rarely fail to bring down their
game at the first shot — such is the excellent ar-
rangement of the shelves in the new fire-proof
iron building, with its perforated floors and abun-
dant light.

Lastly, we come to that colossal congeries of
libraries — the Public Library of Boston. The
uppermost feeling on entering Bates Hall of the
Boylston Street building is : “Now I shall be
pretty sure to find something rare, some book
that I cannot find elsewhere. In that mammoth
card-catalogue I shall discover a rich collection
of books on my specialty.” In the lower room,
you have the satisfaction of feeling that the
masses are being supplied with the bread of life,
and you are pretty sure to find in the reading-
room some periodical not to be found anywhere
else. It is, however, a nearly general .remark
among people, that they experience a feeling of
irritation in the Bates Hall library, owing to the
fact that they must hunt blindly through so many
cards and volumes, wait so long, and have no one
to give them a soothing hint or direction that will
illuminate their darkness and put them on the
right track. This defect, however, is one that
may be remedied ; and if the library gets into the
new building which it hopes for, we shall find the
old Boston Public Library abreast of the other
great libraries in the smaller details, as it is
now superior to most others in extent, in richness
of resources, and in excellence of administration
and working plans.

When one compares the working facilities af-
forded by the public libraries of Boston and
Cambridge with those offered by the great book-
museums of Philadelphia and New York, one
feels that the superior advantages of the New
England libraries more than counterbalance the
deficiency in cosmopolitan dash and munificence
one finds here. Boston is still the paradise of
the scholar in the New World, and seems likely
to remain so. — Lite7'ary world, March 24.

jLitrarg latonomg anti ffitstorj).

Allacci, Leone. Relazione del trasporto della
Biblioteca Palatina da Heidelberg a Roma ;
ora per la prima volta pub. da G : Beltrani, con
notizie slor. e bibliog. Firenze, tip. Bencini,
1882. 80.

“ From the Revista europca, April i, 1882. The
celebrated Greek scholar, Leo Allatius superin-
tended the conveying of the Palatine Library
from Heidelberg to Rome in 1622, when it was
presented by Maximilian as a trophy of war to
Gregory xv. He was proud of the success
of his undertaking, and claimed that the transfer
had been made without losing a single leaf.” —
Moiithly notes.

Boehmer, G : H. History of the Smithsonian
exchanges ; from the Smithsonian report for
1881. Wash., pub. by the Smiihsonian Insti-
tution, 1882. 8+162 p. O.

An account of the system of literary and sci-
entific exchanges, organized and first carried
into effect by the Smithsonian Institution in
1850, with an introductory sketch of early efforts
in international exchange.

Greenwood, Prof. J. M. What the school-
children read. (In Kansas City journal, Feb.
10.) col.

“ The examination covered the reading of 1371
boys and 1506 girls for eight months :

T — Fiction ii,75i

2— Travels, adventures, etc 4i5^‘8

3 — Histones 3-47i

4 — Biographies 3-808

5— Scientific books 3)247

6— Literature and essays 776

7 — Poetical works 4)348

8— MLcellaneous 3-250

9 — Yellow-back trash 4-556

“ From the foregoing it will be seen that 30 per
cent of the books read were fiction; nearly ii
per cent travels and adventures ; 8^ per cent
history ; per cent biography ; 8 per cent sci-
entific ; 2 per cent literature and essays ; nearly
12 per cent poetry ; 8 per cent miscellaneous,
and II per cent ‘ trash.’

“ Upon inquiry it was found that 432 pupils had
read one or more copies of the Police gazette ;
in other words that one pupil out of every five
was either a constant or an occasional reader of
this paper. In fifty-seven rooms, pupils were
found who read it ; in nine rooms, no readers.
When questioned, the pupils said they read it
because it ‘ had lots about fights and killings in
it,’ and with great unanimity they thought ‘ it
ought not to be sold for children to read it.’

“No public library in the United States can
show a better record in this respect.

“ To what is this due? Answer — to several
causes :

“ First — Many of the teachers have used their
influence in various ways to cultivate a correct
taste for reading among the pupils of their rooms.

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“ Second — Our local book-dealers supply the
market with an unusually high order of books,
and the literary standard has been raised among
our citizens.

“Third— The numerous articles in the city
press inveighing against ‘ trash,’ have done much
to enlighten the public mind.

“ Fourth — The public library, owing to its care-
ful selection of books and the great number of
persons who frequent it, is one of the most po-
tent factors in producing these results

“There are 15,000,000 of school-children in the
United States to day. What are they reading ?
The great majority live in the country, and while
they have not the facilities for getting books and
sensational papers enjoyed by the children in
towns and cities, yet they always manage to pick
up some books and papers, which they read.
The state, by virtue of its right to exist, and to
perpetuate that existence, takes the child and ed-
ucates it ; gives it the power to write, to think
and act in the capacity of a citizen, subject to
law. This education, whether good or bad, at
least arouses a desire for knowledge of some
sort. So the child sets out in quest of informa-
tion ; not having been trained in regard to the
character and quality of books, the flashy and
sensational more easily attract attention, capti-
vate and enlist the emotions, pander too fre-
quently to the very lowest elements of human
nature. . . .

“ It is not an uncommon thing to find boys and
girls who can tell something about the characters
in a story, but unable to recall the author’s
name or the title of the book. They open the
package and begin to sample it without looking
at the trade-mark. It is of the utmost impor-
tance that the child should read as an intelligent
critic, and learn to balance in his own mind the
subjects discussed, and place something like a
proper estimate upon them.”

Hallam, J: Address to the Board of Manage-
ment of the Toronto Free Library, by J: Hal-
lam, chairman, n. p.. [Feb. 28, 1883]. 4 p. O.

“Looked at from the commonest standpoint
— vievved in the dollars and cents light — I main-
tain that free libraries are profitable investments
for ratepaying bodies. They develop a taste for
reading ; they keep people out of bad company ;
they direct the rising generation into paths of
study : they divert workingmen from the street
corner and the low, corrupting dram-shop ; and
by developing these virtues among the multi-
tude, they must necessarily diminish the ranks
of those two great armies which are constantly
marching to jails and penitentiaries, and in the
same ratio they must decrease the sums of money
which ratepayers have to provide for the main-
tenance of those places. And even if these
libraries effected no saving of money, nay, even
involved an ultimate increase in public expendi-
ture (which they will not), then, I say, it would
be still wise to have them ; for I contend that it
is infinitely preferable to pay for intelligence
than to tolerate ignorance. . . . The fore-
thought and anxiety which usually precede the

establishment of a new hotel or other business
enterprise should here be exercised with at least
equal care. The site should be on a populous
thoroughfare in or near the centre of commer-
cial activity. The structure itself should be, as
nearly as possible, isolated, so as to protect its
frequenters from the noise and bustle insepa-
rable from its neighborhood. It should be spa-
cious, neat, and comprehensive in design, every
detail being adjusted with a view to practical
utility rather than to artistic effect ; mere archi-
tecture and ornamentation should be studiously
avoided, as entailing great expense, and as being
altogether unnecessary to the successful carrying
on of the work of the institution. The building
should be fireproof, and have a shelving capacity
of not less than 100,000 volumes, in addition to
reading-room, offices, and other necessary apart-
ments. I cannot too strongly urge my opinion
that every minute detail should be planned with
a special eye to some useful end. The ceilings
should be plain and not over sixteen feet high,
the floors of tesselated tiles, and the shelving of
hardwood, and not to exceed seven feet in height.
The arrangements of the windows, more espe-
cially of the reading-room, if not lit from the top,
should be such as to afford the maximum of
light, with inside steel shutters and revolving
fans. The reading-room and offices should be
lighted with the electric light. ... A suitable
structure, with capacity of 100,000 volumes, may
be erected for about $70,000, not including the
site, which would probably cost $40,000.

“ The appointment of a librarian is perhaps the
most important of all the questions devolving
upon the board for settlement, lor on him more
than upon any other factor whatever must the
success of the library depend, and it is abso-
lutely necessary that his appointment should be
independent of any political or sectarian influ-
ences. Men are often pushed into such posi-
tions who have no special aptitude by nature or
experience, through these influences and the
mistaken zeal of their friends, who, if they had
the remotest idea of the special abilities needed
for a successful librarian, would not embarrass
the board by their importunities. When such is
the case the institution loses much of its useful-
ness.

“ The requirements of a thoroughly efficient li-
brarian, such as we should have in Toronto, are
almost innumerable, and are such as are seldom
to be met with in a country where bibliography
is yet in its infancy. He must, first of all, be a
man of education, with a competent knowledge
of English philology. His knowledge of books,
more especially of those written in the English
language, should be vast and comprehensive.
He ought to be at least to some extent familiar
with every important work in English literature,
and with the chief landmarks in the literary his-
tory of Continental Europe. It is, of course,
absolutely essential that he should be minutely
familiar with the history and literature of our
own country. He must be thoroughly acquaint-
ed with every book and important pamphlet bear-
I ing upon our history, polity, and institutions,

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and mnst be able to direct the researches of
educated and intelligent persons who frequent
the library for purposes of reference. He must
be well acquainted with the literature of Lower
Canada, which implies that he must be able to
read it in the original French. He must be a
scholar in whose lear»ing and intelligence the
public can repose confidence, and who may be
implicitly trusted to keep himself abreast of the
literary activity of the times. He should be capa-
ble of editing and annotating such mss. as may
from time to time be consigned to the library
archives, and which may be thought suitable for
publication. Then he should be a capable man
of business, and familiar with the chief book
markets of the world, and with the system of
classifying and cataloguing in vogue among
skilled bibliographers. He must be courteous
in his bearing and demeanor, yet of sufficient
firmness and strength of character to enforce the
rules of the establishment against rich and poor
alike.”

The rate allowed by law — ^ mill on a dollar —
would produce in Toronto at its present valua-
tion almost 130,971 a year. Mr. Hallam pro-
poses to raise $225,000 by bonds to build the
library ($130,000) and to buy books ($95,000).
The interest would be $11,250, leaving $19,721
for the current purchase of books and periodicals
and for salaries and other expenses of manage-
ment.

Hallam, J: Notes by the way on free libraries

and books, with a plea for the establishment

of rate-supported libraries in the Province of

Ontario. Toronto, 18&2. 36 p. O.

L. A. U. K. Monthly notes. London, Nov.,

Dec., 1882, Jan., Feb., 1883. O.

The Nov. no. has an article by Mr. C. Pfoun-
des on Japanese libraries and books, and one
on illustrated art catalogues. The exact amount
paid for the Hamilton mss. is stated to have
been ;i^82,ooo.

In the Dec. no. Mr. H: R. Tedder reviews

M. Cousin’s Organisation des bibliotheques pub-
liques under the title, A French librarian on
librarianship. “ The want of knowledge of what
has been done lately in England and America is
remarkable in a book which is otherwise full of
information of an old-fashioned kind. ... M.
Cousin presents successfully the French official
view of scientific librarianship.”

An Edinburgh correspondent writes : “In
the liquidation of the Select Subscription Li-
brary the ravages caused by this oxidation of
the sulphur compounds in the gas into sulphuric
acid have been very thoroughly disclosed, the
value of the stock being thus palpably de-
preciated, though it is yet too early to con-
descend on figures regarding this. A num-
ber of the books bouffd in buckram with paste-
board covers have stood unharmed for forty
years, side by side with their now disabled
half calf and sheepskin neighbors. By the
way, the readiness with which the members

of this now defunct library have purchased its
volumes opens up a new vista of library econ-
omy. Of course the same practice prevails in
the larger booksellers’ circulating libraries. But
it might also be mooted in a public library, which
is supposed to contain a more solid class of
books, as to how many might thus be period-
ically disposed of, if the real property of the in-
stitution ? And this being granted, might not
such a library be accommodated in smaller
buildings. A library is no doubt a store for the
best literary treasures of the present and past
ages ; but only one or two institutions can be
so, while the majority are sort of half-way
houses betwixt the bookseller and the reader.”

In the Jan. no. E. C. Thomas writes on “ The
distribution of public documents to libraries in
the United States.” *^The new Bodleian cata-
loguing rules are printed in such a way as to
show their difference from the L. A. U.K. rules.
It is noted that printing the British Museum
catalogue has already made a saving of 23 feet
of shelving.^

The Feb. no. has a paper by W. R. Credland
on “ Free public libraries in 1882,” and a very
valuable resume by Mr. Tedder of “The bibli-
ography of 1882,” which reminds one of Mr. S:
S. Green’s paper on library aids. “There are
now,” says Mr. Credland, “nearly 100 rate-
supported libraries in Great Britain, containing
over 3,000,000 volumes, and during last year
books were lent to over 10,000,000 readers.”
Mr. Tedder says, “ Leaving out of consideration
the comprehensive division of literature, we find
that during the past twelve months English bib-
liography has been chiefly devoted to history
and science ; America has had most to show in
history and sociology, and has done more work in
natural science than any other country ; France
has been rich in history and biography ; Ger-
many in history and the arts ; and the chief
proportion of Italian bibliographies have fallen
in history and biography. French writers have
applied themselves chiefly to what may be called
antiquarian bibliography. The German work
lies principally in the department of special
scholarship. The increased attention paid in
the United States to technical librarianship has
produced a quantity of treatises directing popu-
lar reading. The character of English bibli-
ography is more difficult to fix ; it partakes of
the nature of the three countries named, but is
less specially antiquarian than the French, less
scholarly than the German, and less popularly
useful than the American.”

Library notes and news. (In American Book-
seller, Mar. I.) col.

Robinson, F. W. The private libraries of Phil-
adelphia ; the library of G: W. Childs

Phila., 1882. 46 p. T.

Schools and Library. (In The Inter-ocean,

Chicago, Feb. 13.)

“To bring the public library and the public
schools into closer relations, Mr. Poole has

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each Saturday morning for several weeks in-
vited some class from one of the high schools,
under the charge of its teacher, to the library,
where he has arranged in the directors’ room an
exercise which has been very entertaining and
instructive to the pupils. A subject is selected
beforehand, and the books which treat upon and
illustrate that subject are collected upon the
large table.

“ Mr. Poole opened the talk by saying that
he had invited the class to the library that they
might see it from the inside instead of the out-
side, as they had been accustomed to see it, and
might better appreciate the opportunities the
library afforded of investigating special subjects
like the one before them.

“Some students, he said, probably thought,
when they graduated creditably from the high
school, that they knew a great deal, and. that
they had finished their education. He disa-
bused their minds of this idea, for they knew
very little about any subject ; and as for being
educated, they had just learned the alphabet and
had begun to spell in words of one syllable.

“ They had only learned how to study, and
their real education, if they ever had ii, they
must get from the study of books after they left
school, and without the help of their teachers.
The purpose of this library of nearly 100,000
volumes was to help them to educate themselves.
The difference between an educated person and
one uneducated was not that the one knew more
than the other ; but that the former knew how
to think and acquire information, and the latter
did not ; in other words, the educated person
knew how to use books, as the good mechanic
used the tools of his trade.

‘“The main purpose of this little talk,’ said
Mr. Poole, ‘ is to give you some hints as to the
use of reference-books, in order that you may
help yourselves. If I had the arrangement of
the studies in our high schools I would have
fewer ’ologies and ’ographies in the scheme, and
more instruction in the methods of original in-
vestigation and the use of books of reference.
Few books can be read consecutively ; but all
books may be used as works of reference, and
that is their highest purpose.’

“He then took up some topic and showed
them the method they were to use in its investi-
gation, the helps which the library furnished in
the form of cyclopaedias, dictionaries, and in-
dexes, and the authorities they were to consult
on that special topic.

“ They were, on historical subjects, to accept
no writer’s statements as infallible, but to set
them against the statements of other writers,
and to form no opinion without an impartial
exercise of the critical faculty. The use of books,
as a theory, could be taught by lectures, but the
thing itself could only be learned by the prac-
tical use of books in a large library. All these
facilities were here available, and he invited the
pupils of the high schools to use them in the
freest m.anner. The office door of the librarian
was always open, and they were invited to come
in without any formality when they needed

help, but with this caution, that they were not to
call upon him for help until they had made a
square, honest endeavor to help themselves and
had failed. His time was too valuable to be
taken up by lazy persons, and helping lazy peo-
ple was misdirected effort.

“ The teacher whose class was present then
speaks to his pupils on the special topic of the
day as illustrated in the books before them, and
impresses upon their minds that what they have
learned in school is the mere introduction to
library resources upon the same topic. He
gives them instruction as to how to use these
books and of their relative importance. After
the talking is over the pupils are invited to re-
main and examine the books at their leisure,
and such as wish to do so go behind the railing
and inspect the classification of the books, the
arrangements of the library, and the card cata-
logue, asking such questions about the same as
they wish.

“ It was curious to see the expression of inter-
est and almost of wonder in the faces of many
of the pupils which this hour’s exercise inspired ;
for they had not before seen so many books or
those so beautifully illustrated. A good number
had no cards on which to draw books, and had
never before visited the library. They forthwith
took the blanks by which they might procure
cards.”

Slater, J. Herbert. Library manual, a guide
to the formation of a library, and the valua-
tion of rare and standard books. London,
L. U. Gill, 1883. 7+120 p. O.

The Treasury and the Ashburnham mss. (In
Saturday rev., Feb. 17.) col.

An argument for their purchase by the British
Museum.

Abstracts of and extracts from reports.

Burlmgton ( Vt.) Fletcher Free L. (9th report,
total V. 14,000 ; issued 26,437, of which 18,308
fiction.)

“ This year we have a novelty to present — the
beginning of a plan to make the librar)'^ more
useful in our schools. The credit of the plan is
due to our painstaking librarian, and the faithful
teachers who have fallen in with it. It is, really,
a plan to make the schools branch libraries, or,
if you please, to make the library an annex to the
schools. Baskets of books are sent to the pri-
mary and intermediate schools, of the best read-
ing for girls and boys, which the teachers then
loan, keeping the proper account. These are
circulated till they are read through, and then
another basket is got together by the teachers
and librarian. Thus, instead of choosing in a
blind way from the catalogue, or by hearsay
from their mates, the chij^ren are directed in a
plain way of good reading. Already some of
the teachers report a healthy readiness on the
part of the scholars to read what is thus ready
to hand, and set before them with pleasant ex-
planations as to what the books are all about. 1 le

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was prudent who, in answer to the cant about
‘ not prejudicing a child’s mind,’ replied that
he would prefer to ‘prejudice’ his garden plot
in favor of strawberries than leave it to the
chance of purslain and pig-weed. This novelty
in our library work promises to do something to
plant ‘ herb of grace’ in the children’s minds.
Teachers are finding it awakening a new set
of ideas among their scholars, and calling out
some freshness of interest in their school work.
We have brought our reference library, as well
as our circulating, into the schools. The librari-
an sends down his selections of books, not only
to loan, but for use during school hours.”

Melbotirne Public Libraiy. (Report for 1881.)
Added 6213 volum'^s and pamphlets. The Li-
brarian, Dr. T. F. Bride, complains of the want
of space. Not only are all the shelves filled,
but the ledges of the bookcases are used, and in
one gallery the floor, from end to end, is strewn
with thousands of volumes. 'I'he result is that
there are numerous breaks in the classification,
and it easy to see the inconvenience caused to
the staff and the public,

Milwaukee P. L. “ The uncommonly large
number of gifts to the library during the past
year is in great measure due to the personal
efforts of a member of your board who conceived
the idea of asking citizens to pledge themselves
to contribute yearly a volume of some kind to
the library.”

“There was a time when the public library
was only appealed to as a last resort, because
every other source of information had failed,
often with a certain consciousness that it was
‘not much use anyway.’ Frequent agreeable
surprises in this respect, however, are rapidly
changing the current of public opinion, and, as
a result, the librarian and his assistants are now
daily requested to give their assistance in look-
ing up references and searching for light on ob-
scure topics.

“ It affords me great pleasure to note also the
increased confidence in the library shown by
the teachers of the public schools, who now fre-
quently make practical use of the books, and are
often to be met with in all departments of
the library. As a beginning toward the estab-
lishment of more intimate relations between
these educational institutions of our city, there
was created, as an experiment, in January last,
a so-called ‘school department’ of the public
library, by purchasing a number of copies of
each of Scott’s ‘Lady of the lake,’ Goldsmith’s
‘The deserted village,’ Shakespeare’s ‘Julius
Caesar,’ and Towle’s ‘ Ralegh,’ which have
since been furnished to the various schools, on
requisition of the principal, to serve instead of
‘readers,’ and to be read with the view of
imparting to the children knowledge of how to
read a book, stimulating them to collateral read-
ing, and teaching them how to make an intel-
ligent use of the library. How far this latter
object has been accomplished I am unable to
say, but the teachers have, without exception,
expressed themselves as highly pleased with

the result in their schools and desirous of see-
ing this new department of the library largely
extended.”

Newton {Mass.) Free L. “ During the past
two years the Trustees have been compelled to
restrict their purchases of books below what they
considered the wants of our peopfle and the
standing of the library fairly required, in con-
sequence of a necessary diversion of funds to
meet the increased expense of a daily distribu-
tion of books by express to the various wards of
our city. This increased expense, however,
has been fully justified by the increased facilities
afforded for the enjoyment of the benefits of the
Library by the inhabitants of our more distant
wards.” “The librarian has, from week to
week, occupied considerable space in the New-
ton Journal (the proprietors generously offering
their columns for this purpose) in giving the
titles of new volumes, with short notices of their
contents and character. This work has been
evidently appreciated, for the books thus an-
nounced have been quite sure to be called for
during the ensuing week.

“ While, in nearly every instance which has
come under our notice, the reports of librarians
show a falling off during the past year in circu-
lation, the Newton Library, although we have
not added the usual number of fresh books, has
increased its annual circulation by 400. And,
what is still more gratifying, the purchases dur-
ing the year have been largely of a substantial
character, and there has been a diminution to
the extent of 400 volumes, as compared with the
previous year, in the demand for works of fic-
tion, with a corresponding increase in the dis-
tribution of works of a higher order.”

Concludes with “ a sketch of the rise and
progress of the library.”

N. Y. Free Circtdating L. (Issue 71,840 v.,
fiction 68 per cent.)

“ Whenever it can be done, suggestions are
given, and selections are often made by the li-
brarian or assistants. The boys especially are
more and more guided by us in their reading.”
... “A large number of valuable volumes have
been received as gifts. Among the latter atten-
tion is called to one of more than 1000 volumes in
German, admirably selected and already in ex-
tensive circulation. Another gratifying feature
is the creation of a special fund under the name
of the ‘Woman’s Fund,’ the income of which is
to be devoted, as far as possible, to the employ-
ment of women in the library ; and it is hoped
that liberal additions will be made to this fund
in the future by those who are interested in ex-
tending to women another field of useful work.”

The Royal Library at Brussels has opened a
salle des periodiques containing the bound volumes
of periodicals, and a number of dictionaries,
gazetteers, etc. In the evening the hall also
serves as a reading-room in. which works from
the main library (which is closed at 3 p.m. in
winter) can be studied, provided that a list of the
books desired is handed in during the day.

THE LIBRARY JOURNAL.

[Marc/i-Ap., ’83.

Uibliografj).

Armington, H. E. The Sunday question in
literature ; [a bibliografy]. (In Index, Mar.
15.) col.

Bahder, K; Die deutsche Philologie im Grund-
riss. Paderborn, Schoningh. 16-I-456 p.

6 m.

4110 nos., systematically arranged with au-
thor-index. Intended to take the place of the
excellent “ Grundriss ” of Hoffmann von Fal-
lersleben (1836), now somewhat antiquated.

Brahmig, Bernh. Ratgeber fiir Musiker und
Freunde der Tonkunst bei der Wahl geeigne-
ter Musikalien. 2® verm. Aufl. umgearb. v. H.
Kilrbitz. Lpz., Merseburger, 1882. 10+143

p. 8«. I m.

Contains select lists of books in all depart-
ments of musical literature.

Carr, J. Comyns. Book-illustration, old and
new. (In yournal of the Society of Arts, Oct.
13, and foil, nos.)

Delayant, Leopold. Bibliographic rochelaise ;
pub. par. ordre du Conseil Municipal [par
G: Musset]. La Rochelle, typ. A. Siret, 1882.
13+437 P- 8^

A list of works relating to La Rochelle, with
notes, not a list of the authors or typographical
productions of that city. Noticed by T. de Lar-
roque in Polybiblion, p. 129-30.

Dufour, r abbe Valentin. Bibliographic artis-
tique, historique et litteraire de Paris avant
1789. Paris, A. Laporte, 1882. 8 + 537 p.+

4 plates. 25 fr., papier verg6, proofs, 50 fr.
The author was formerly sub-librarian at the
Bibliotheque de 1’ Hotel de Ville.

Gracklauer, O. Deutscher Journal - Katalog
fllr 1883, 1606 Titeln. Lpz., Gracklauer, [1882].
45 P- 8®. 75 m.

Grassauer, Ferd. Handbuch fiir dsterreich-
ische Universitiits- und Studien-Bibliotheken,
sowie fiir Volks-, Mittelschul- und Bezirks-Leh-
rerbibliotheken. Mil einer Sammlung von
Gesetzen, u.s.w. Wien, Griiser, 1883. 6+314
p. 8^ 5 m.

Hildebrandt’s Bibliographic der Staats- und
Rechts - wissenschaften. i. Band, von der
Grilndung des deutschen Kaiserreiches bis
Sept. 1876. 2. Band, Sept. 1876-Ende 1881.

Berlin, C. Heymann, 1882. 2 v., 274 ; 315 p. •
8”. 7.50 m.

Hurst, J: F. Bibliotheca theologica, a select
and classified bibliography of theology and

general religious literature. N. Y., C; Scrib-
ner’s Sons, 1883. 16+417 p. O.

Refers to about six hundred works. The
criticism of the selection must be left to theo-
logical students. The bibliograficaP form is
good, author’s names, titles, and imprints being
given with sufficient fulness to facilitate procur-
ing the book ; and the mention of the number
of pages showing its extent.

Merlet, L. Bibliotheque chartraine ant6rieure
au 19® siecle. Orleans, Herluison, 1883. 452 p.
8'^. (50 copies.)

From the Mem. de la Soc. archeol de I’Or-
leanais.

Petit, Louis D. Proeve eener bibliographic der
Nederlandsche dialecten. i. gedeelte. Leiden
1883. 2 I. + 55 p. 8°.

A Robinson Crusoe bibliography is given in
a review of Stock’s fac-simile reprint of the ist
ed. in the Bibliographer, Jan., p. 33-36.

Slater, J. H. The library manual ; a guide to
the formation of a library and the valuation of
rare and standard books. London, L. U. Gill,
1883. 120 p. 8*^. 2s. 6d.

A treatise on bibliography, with a classified
catalogue of rare and standard books.

Soule, C: C. The lawyer’s reference manual of
law-books and citations. Boston, Soule &
Bugbee, 1883. 8+497 p. O.

“An invaluable book of reference for law-
yers. The task has been performed with care,
discretion, and accuracy.” — Nation.

Westwood, T., and Satciiell, T. Bibliotheca
piscatoria, a catalogue of books on angling,
the fisheries, and fish culture, with bibliograph-
ical notes and an appendix of citations from
old English authors. London, W. Satchell,
1883. 24+397 p. O.

3158 eds. and reprints of 2148 distinct works,
beside 727 parliamentary papers and 341 acts of
parliament. The titles and dates of 2465 are
given from a personal examination of the books.

WoAS, Franz. Repertorium der Journal-Litera-
tur der Eisenbahn-Tecknik. Berlin, Springer,
1882. 16+260 p. 8®. 5 m.

The first part of a publication which the pub-
lisher hopes to continue annually. The present
number contains the railway literature of 1880
and 1881.

WiisTENFELD, F. Die Geschichtschreiber der
Araber und ihre Werke. A. d. 28. u. 29. Bde.
d. Abhlgn. d. K. Ges. d. Wiss. Gottingen,
Dietrich, 1882. 8 + 307 p. 4°.

Bibliografy has become a much esteemed
science in some of the government departments,
and they have struck out new ways for them-

March- Ap.^ ’83.]

THE LIBRARY JOURNAL.

selves, differing decidedly from old and accept-
ed standards. For instance, in the catalogue of
one of the libraries, a paper entitled '' A nalges
minor, eine neue Milbe im Innern der Federspu-
len der Hiihner,” is entered as foHovvs : “ Mi-

nor analysis of"a new mite in the quill feathers
of hens ” ! A Correspondent.

Catalogs and cataloging.

Peoria P. L. Reference list, English fiction
and juveniles ; by F. J. Soldan. Peoria, 1882.
^3 + [i] p. 1. O.

Authors and titles ; no imprints.

Full Names.— John Jacob Clute (Annals
of Staten Island) ; Nathaniel Holmes Bishop
(Voyage of the paper canoe) ; Thomas Emory
Van Bebber (The Flight into Egypt) ; Robert
Morrison (The proofs of Christ’s resurrection) ;
Isaac W. Hammond (Town papers) ; Barton
Warren Evermann (Animal analysis) ; Francis
Thayer Russell (Use of the voice in reading
and speaking) ; G: E: Pond (The Shenandoah
valley in 1864) ; Francis Percival Dewees
(The Molly Maguires) ; Eugene C. Gardner
(Home interiors). The C. in this last name is
an adopted letter and does not stand for any
name.

Indexes.

Griswold, W: H. (“ Q. P. Index.”) A gener-
al index to the Contemporary review, the Fort-
nightly review, and the Nineteenth century.
Bangor, Me., Q. P. Index, 1882. 36 p. O.

(Q. P. Indexes, no. ii.) pap., $2.50.

Mr. Cushing’s Index to the North American
'review has been reduced in price to $i (includ-
ing the supplement.)

To Lane’s Arabian society in the Middle Ages,
Mr. Stanley Lane-Poole “ has added an elab-
orate and scholarly index (for even an index
can be scholarly).” — Acad.

iBtotrs antt ©ucries.

Pas te. — After having tried all sorts of pastes,
mucilages, dextrine, etc., for library use, I hav
at last found an adhesiv material so eminently
satisfactory, that I consider it my duty to pub-
lish it for the benefit of the profession. Here
is the recipe for about one quart of paste :

To four tablespoonfuls of the best wheaten
flour, add two tablespoonfuls of common moist
or brown sugar, and a little corrosiv sublimate ;
the whole to be boiled, and, while boiling, con-
tinually stirred to prevent lumps, til of the
right consistency. If a few drops of some es-
sential oil, say lavender or peppermint, be added,
the usual moldiness wil not appear, and the
paste wil keep for a great length of time.

I hav never seen a better paste for all pur-
poses. K. A; Linderfelt.

A circular having been sent to eight librarians,
asking whether in arranging books on the shelves
they would put all the states, counties, and towns
of the United States in one alfabetical order, or
arrange them first geografically by states, and
then alfabetically under each state, five replied
in favor of the latter arrangement, two did not
reply at all, and the eighth misunderstood the
question.

amongins anil |JscuIitin8mg.

Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich, by Arthur Hugh
Clough. — ‘‘Hobbes in the ‘Bothie’ was Ward
Hunt, Adam was Clough himself, Lindsay was
F. R. Johnson of Christ Church, Hewson was
J. S. Winder of Oriel, Arthur was H. W. Fisher
of Christ Church, and Airlie was J. Deacon of
Oriel. Sir Hector, I believe, was Mr. Farqu-
harson.” — A. H. A. Hamilton in the Acade7ny,
Jan. 6, 1883.

History of the churches of New Bedfoj'd (New
Bedford, i86g, D.) was by Jesse Fillmore Kelley
and Adam Mackie. The ist ed. pub. in 1854
was by Kelley alone.

Arige-Benigne. — “ II est inoue comme les fem-
mes aiment a prendre des pseudonymes mas-
culins. Ange-B/nigfie e’est Mme. de Molenes ;
Pierre Cour, Mme. de Voisins; Philippe Gerfaut,
Mme. Dardenne de la Grangerie ; facques Rosier,
Mme. Jules Baton.” — Polybiblion.

Ashford Owen, ps. of Anna C. Ogle in ‘A lost
love,’ London, 1855, O.

Claude Frollo. — It has been decided by a Pa-
risian tribunal that M. Catulle Mendes, who had
used this pseudonym in the Petit Parisien, could
not contribute under the same name in another
paper, that is that the paper and not the user of
the pseudonym owns the copyright. By a parity
of reasoning Mark Twain could not change his
publisher without changing his pseudonym ; and
carrying it a little farther, no writer can take a
new publisher Avithout taking a new name ;
women would have to marry, and men either to
disguise their name or to apply to the legislature,
for a change.

Mary Blake, the Century contributor on house-
hold matters, is Mrs. Mary N. Blakeslee {itot
Blakesley), the wife of a Connecticut clergyman.

Maryan, ps. of Mme. Marie Deschard in
“ Chez les autres,” ” Un mariage de conve-
nance,” and ‘‘ Les chemins de la vie.”

Triolet, a ps. used in the Gaulois by Paul
Mahalin.

Arana, Diego Barros. — Notas para una biblio-
grafia de obras anonimas i seudoniraas sobre la
historia, la jeografia, i la literatura de America.
Santiago de Chile, imp. nac., 1882. 4*^.

THE LIBRARY JOURNAL.

YMarc/i-Ap., ’83.

ILitcvature for tljc l!)oung.

Edited by Miss C. M. Hewins, Librarian of
Hartford Library Association.

Notes a7id suggestions^ from various sources, on read-
ing and the best use of books, are to be included in this
departjnetd.

Advanced lessons in kitchen garden, with
songs and occupations : pub. by the Kitchen
Garden Assoc. N. Y., Scherinerhorn. S.
bds., 35 c. ; pap., 25 c.

Contains lessons on : Dining-room ; Chamber work ; The
laundry; Ironing and starching ; The kitchen ; Marketing
and cooking lessons ; Bread ; Yeast ; The nursery ; Good
manners for girls; house-cleaning.

*Calthrop, H. C. Hollway. Paladin and Sara-
cen : stories from Ariosto ; il. by Mrs. Arthur
Lemon. N. Y., Macmillan. S. $1.75.

“An excursion through the old wonder-world of myth and
legend under the leadership of a scholarly and attractive
writer. The stories of King Arthur, the Norse mythology,
and the Niebelungen Lied have recently been given to
young readers, and it is opportune that the tales of Charle-
magne, and of Rinaldo, Orlando, and the other Paladins,
should be put into the same form. Ariosto is the magician
who weaves the old spell with the magician’s wand of the
imagination, and his great work must always remain a store-
house of fancy and romance, extravagant and unreal m the
light of our century, but perennially fresh and fascinating.”
— Christian union.

Catalogue. Point Street Grammar School li-
brary. Notes on children’s books. Gems of
thought. Providence. S.

A full account ot the use made of this catalogue, and the
careful guidance of children’s reading in this school, is given
by Mr. Foster in the February Library journal.

Davis, Irenseus P., M.D. Hygiene for girls.
N. Y., Appleton. S. $1.25.

Has chapters entitled: Nerves and nervousness; Habit
and association; Sympathy and imagination; Organs pe-
culiar to women ; Feminine employments ; Amusements ;
Social customs; Harmony and elements of beauty; Hy-
gienic morals.

“ It is the best book of its kind with which we are ac-
quainted. Its style is good, its scientific accuracy unim-
peachable, and best of all it is marked by uniform good
sense throughout. It is a book that any mother can put
into her daughter’s hand without the least hesitation.” —
Kxaininer.

Drayson, a. W. The gentleman cadet; his
career and adventures at the Royal Military
Academy, Woolwich. London, Griffith and
Farran. N. Y., Dutton. S. $1.50
GibePvNE, Agnes. Twilight talks ; or, easy les-
sons on things around us. N. Y., Carter. S.

75 .c-

An introduction to physics.

Grimm, Jac. L; and W; C : Household stories
from the collection of the brothers Grimm ;
from the German by Lucy Crane, and done into
pictures by Walter Crane. N. Y., Macmillan.
S. $2.

Hope, Ascott R. Homespun stories. N. Y.,
Appleton. S. $1.

“Amusing reminiscences of the rough jokes, the frolics, and
the misfortunes of boys at boarding-schools. He tells of no
cruelty, but of many kindnesses on the part of the masters,
and by a rough sort of ju-.tice the guilty boys usually got
punished, and the tables were turned on those who tried to
play practical jokes. There are other personal experiences
at sea : in the wilds of Canada; at a street barricade in
Paris at the time of the coup d'etat; in Ireland, where
shooting landlords is not a new pastime ; and there is a pict-
uresque sketch of the frolics and celebrations in Scotland
at the coming of the new year.” — Boston advertiser.

Ingersoll, Ernest. Old ocean. Dost., Loth-
rop. S. $1.

A description of the ocean, with information on currents,
ships, voyages, commerce, etc.

Luxton, Mrs. W. The new house that Jack
built. Lond., Routledge. S. $1.

An exoellent story for girls from ten to fourteen years
old.

Moleswortii, Mrs. The boys and 1. Lond.,
Routledge. S. $1.25.

Molesworth, Mrs. Hoodie. Lond., Routledge.
S. $1.25.

Molesworth, Mrs. Rosy; il. by Walter Crane.

N. Y., Macmillan. S. $1.25.

Molesworth, Mrs. Summer stories for boys
and girls. Lond., Macmillan. S. $1.50.
New Arabian nights ; select tales, not included
by Galland or Lane [tr. and ed. by W. F. Kir-
by]. Phil., Lippincott. D. $2.

Otis, Ja. Mr. Stubbs’ brother: a sequel to
“Toby Tyler.” N, Y., Harper, sq. S. $1.
Otis, Ja. Tim and Tip ; or, the adventures of
a boy and a dog. N. Y., Harper, sq. S. $1.

“ A bright little story of a boy and dog, who suffer hard-
ship together, enjoy all the fun of camping out, triumph
over imaginary bears, and come to as h<ippy an ending as
any other lovers. Kindness to animals is constantly sug-
gested ; and thte various phases of boy-life, especially their
ways of talking together, are told with admirable accuracy,”
— Boston advertiser.

Romanes, G: J. Animal intelligence. N. Y.,
Appleton, 1883. D. (International scientific
ser., no. 44.) $1.75.

Anecdotes of animals from the lowest to the highest types.
Although not written for children, told in language simple
enough for them to understand.

Notes and suggestions.

Charlemagne. — “What can you suggest for
a club of boys and girls from sixteen to eighteen
years old, who are reading on Charlemagne ?
They have finished Bulfinch’s Legends of Charle-
magne, and wish something entertaining and
attractive and at the sam.e time trustworthy.”

There are no historical novels of Charle-
magne’s reign. The life of him by James
has for a long time been a standard work, but
James’ methods of investigation and -work are
old - fashioned. The life of Charlemagne by
Eginhard, published in Harper’s Half-hour se-
ries, may be bought for twenty-five cents. It is
an entertaining sketch of a great man by one of
his friends. If you are really studying, try a few
chapters from Bryce’s Holy Roman empire,Parke
Godwin’s history of France, and Sir James Ste-
phen’s Lectures on the history of France, or Gui-
zot’s Popular history. If you have read Bulfinch,
you hardly need the new Paladin and Saracen,
or the Tales from Ariosto retold, published by
Roberts Brothers in 1879. Poole’s Index will
show you where to find many articles on Charle-
magne in periodicals. There is a good one on
his friend Alcuin or Alcwine in the January
Cornhill, reprinted in Liltell's Living age for
January 20.

A Child’s Library. — The following appeared
in the IVonian's yotirnal under the heading,
“ How Colonel Higginson Selected a Child’s

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THE LIBRARY JO UR HAL.

Library.” It appeared, on inquiry, that the
ages of the children ranged from twelve down
to three, the two oldest being girls. To meet
the probable demands of these children to the
extent of $30 was the problem ; bearing in mind
that the cliildren might or might not be preco-
cious, and that "in fitting mental food as well as
bodily clothing, it was better to have an eye to
possible growth. After some demurring I ac-
cepted the task, and after some consultation with
those ever genial and kindly men of books,
Messrs. Lee & Shepard, the following list was
adopted :

Snow-bound. Illustrated. Whittier.

Life of Longfellow. Kennedy.

A summer in the Azores. Baker.

Among the Isles of Shoals. Celia Thaxter.

' The boys of ’76. Coffin.

’ The boys of ’61. Coffin.

Story of our country. Richardson.

Book of Anierican explorers. Higginson.

Sir Walter Raleigh. Towle.

Child’s history of England. Dickens.

Tales from Shakesptari. Lamb.

Tales from Homer. Church.

The wonder-book. Illustrated. Hawthorne.

Young folks’ book of poetry. Campbell.

Poetry for childhood. Eliot.

Bits of talk about home matters. H. H.

The seven little sisters. Andrews.

“ Hans Brinker ; or, the silver skates. Dodge.

Room for one more. Mary T. Higginson.

King Arthur for boj’^s. Lanier.^

Doings of the Bodley family. Scudder.

Mother-play and nursery rhymes.

Children’s Robinson Crusoe.

The four-footed lovers.

Marnmy Tittleback and her family. H. H.

The Little Prudy books. Six volumes.

Guest’s Lectures on English history is better
than Dickens’, and the ” Prudy ” children are
so mischievous, so full of young Americanisms,
and so far from .being “ wells of English unde-
filed,” that they are not always good compan-
ions for boys and girls. I have known a child’s
English spoiled by reading the Prudy books.

Dangerous Reading. — The following com-
munication was addressed to the editor of the
JV. V. Evening Post : “ Sir — The other day my
son, aged about fifteen years, asked me the
meaning of a certain objectionable passage in a
play of Shakespeare, which, he said, he was in-
structed by his school-teacher to analyze. Surpris-
ed that the boy should have such subject-matter
given for his lucubrations at so early an age, I
made inquiry at the school, at the same time ex-
pressing my desire that he should receive other
subject-matter for his studies in composition.
I was informed in reply that, as the boy was
understood to be preparing for entry at Harvard,
the rules required as part of the examination
papers an analytical knowledge of certain of
Shakespeare’s plays, including the disgusting
one, ‘Othello.’ The rules also required, that
the boy entering should have a knowledge of the
novel called ‘ The mill on the Floss.’ Appreciat-
ing the propriety of keeping such literary stuff
out of a boy’s head at so early an age, I have
changed my resolution of sending my son to the
above university. I will seek to place him in
Columbia or some other college, where the fac-
ulty may have sufficient common-sense and dis-
ciiniination to select from the wide field of Eng-

lish classic literature material for the education
of youth that may be quite as useful for the
mental and more suitable for the moral educa-
tion of those to be placed under their charge.

“New York. Parent.’’

[“ Parent ” is quite right not to send his son
to Harvard. His mistake is in resolving to send
him to Columbia or anywhere else. A young
man who cannot be trusted to read “ The mill on
the Floss” or “ Othello” should not be sent to
any college whatever or allowed to go at large
at all, but should be kept safe at home. — Ed.
Evening post.~\

Dime Novel Work. — Pernicious stories of
the ” dime novel ” class continue to do their mis-
chievous work. The latest recorded victim was
a New London boy, aged fourteen, who shot him-
self during a period of mental aberration caused
by reading dime novels. Parents who hear of such
cases and fear for their own boys usually wish
that some one would kill the writers and pub-
lishers of the vile trash that most boys read when
they can get it ; but such wishes do not mend
matters in the least, for there is no one to do
the killing. The only antidote to the dime novel
is good reading matter that is not prosy ; there
is plenty of it in the market, and fathers who do
not see that their boys are well furnished with it
have only themselves to blame if the youngsters
are compelled to find their own literature for
want of a paternal supply. — New York herald.

Edgeworth. — Perhaps some who began to
read half a century ago can remember how
they welcomed Maria Edgeworth. “ Harry and
Lucy,” opening with the words, “Harry was
brother to Lucy, and Lucy was sister to Harry,”
was followed by larger and more mature books ;
“The parent’s assistant,” “Frank,’’ “Rosa-
mond.” Frank, with his little vanities and weak-
nesses, with his horse Felix ; Rosamond with*
her purple jar ; all these entranced the children
of a former generation, nor have they yet lost
their power. From the pen of the Aikens came
“ Evenings at home,” including “ Eyes and no
eyes,” “The transmigrations of” — well, really,
we cannot recall his respectable name ; but we
have read it times without number. “ Bar-
bauld’s Hymns ” gave many a happy hour. The
Taylors gave to the young “ Original Poems.”
— Maria Edgeworth (or rather the Edgeworth
Family, for she was sister or half-sister to seven-
teen others), the Taylors and the Barbaulds, may
be considered the founders of our present child-
literature. Our grandfathers and grandmothers
remember the days when “ Mother Goose,”
“Jack the giant-killer,” “Goody-two-shoes,”
with now and then a fairy book, were the chil-
dren’s store, and pretty scarce at that. Then
there were sometimes those most vicious and
horrible stories of blood and spectres, “The
Mysteries of Udolpho,” “The two Spaniards,”
and kindred tales, which the youths used to read
with shuddering terror, and then go to bed to
pull the clothes over their heads.

To trace all the steps since those days would
carry us beyond the space at our disposal. But
the progress is immense. Literature for our

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[Marc/i-Aj^., ’S3.

young people is thought not unworthy to de-
mand the efforts of the finest minds. Miss
Phelps, Miss Alcott, Mr. Frothingham (who,
strange as it may seem, is the author of two of
the best collections of Old and New Testament
stories with which we are acquainted), Mr. Haw-
thorne, Mr. Longfellow, the Abbotts, these are
but a few among those who have written largely
for the young. To write acceptably and usefully
for the young is a task more formidable than
most persons imagine. There must be the ut-
most clearness of thought, along with an equal
clearness of language, and a vividness of de-
scription, that are by no means universally be-
stowed.— National baptist.

Sunday-School Books. — The Connecticut
Ladies’ Commission on Sunday-school books has
accepted fifty-six volumes since last May. The
list, whichhasbeen printed, includes “Ben-Hur,”
“ The household of Sir Thomas More,” “ Marian
Douglas,” “ Peter and Polly,” and Edward Gar-
rett’s ” Occupations of a retired life.” Books for
advanced readers are marked A, for youths F,
and for children C,

Sunday-School Libraries, — Mr. S. S. Green,
of Worcester, spoke at a meeting of Sunday-
school teachers held in the Hollis Street Chapel,
Boston, on February igth, of Sunday-school li-
braries. He said that ” in the school with which
he was connected, a special committee selected
new books to be added to the library, three or
four at a time, as they came out. These books
were carefully read by the committee, and notes
of each made, showing what its contents were,
what characters were brought out, what virtues
inculcated. These notes were put in a man-
uscript catalogue, and explained to the chil-
dren by the superintendent, when the books
were placed for inspection on the librarian’s
.table. The necessity of a good catalogue was
emphasized by Mr. Green, who advocated one
arranged by means of a single alphabet under
the title of the book, or perhaps with advantage
divided into sub-headings of poetry, history, bi-
ography, etc. Above all, there should be notes
showing in brief the contents of each book. Yet
this method of introducing books is not sufficient.
A consulting librarian is needed, who can sit
where both teachers and scholars can have access
to her, and supply their wants. A teacher can
then be given the story she wishes to read to her
class, while the opportunity is afforded to direct
into right channels the reading of the boy who
comes for a stirring story.” — Christian register.

Supplementary Reading. — The Boston
School Committee has passed an order, author-
izing certain books to be used for supplementary
reading in the high and grammar schools.
Thirty-five copies of each book are^to be placed
in the high, and fifty-six in the grammar schools.
They are to be used for readitig at sight, and
may also be taken home over night by the chil-
dren, who are frequently required to tell in their
own language what they have read. The full
list of books is given in the New Englatid Jour-
nal of education for January ii.

iLibrarj) IJurcfjasesiList.

A selection of new books, with notes of
commendation or caution.

Books mentioned without notes can, as a rule, be safely
purchased for the general reader. The binding, unless
otherwise expressed, is generally understood to be in
cloth.

Adams, Mary. An honorable surrender. N. Y.,
Scribner. S. $1.

“A love story of a fresh and unconventional type.”

Bancroft, Hubert Howe. History of the Pa-
cific States of North America. V. 4 : Mexico
V. I, 1516-1521. San Francisco, A. L. Ban-
croft & Co. O. $4.50 ; leath., $5.50.

Black, W: Shandon bells: a novel. N. Y.,
Harper, 1883. il. D. $1.25 ; Same. Q. (Har-
per’s Franklin sq. lib.) pap., 20 c.

“ _We feel the charm, but feel also the difficulty of analyz-
ing: it, just as we should feel the difficulty of analyzing our
delight in the balminess of the air on a typic.al June morn-
ing.”— A cademy.

Blake, Mary E. [“ M. E. B.”] On the wing :
rambling notes of a trip to the Pacific. Bost.,
Lee & Shepard. S. $1.

Blind, Mathilde. George Eliot. Bost., Rob-
erts Bros. S. (Famous women ser.) $1.

“ A graceful and unpretentious little bography ; tells
all that need be told concerning one of the greatest writers
of the time.” — N. V. Tribune.

Bradley, G: Granville, D.D. Recollections of
Arthur Penryhn Stanley, late Dean of West-
minster. N. Y., Scribner. D. $1.

” The ‘ Recollections of Dean Stanley,’ by his successor at
Westminster, Dr. Bradley, form a complete, well-written,
and much too brief biography.” — Boston Advertiser .

Butt, Beatrice May. Geraldine Hawthorne.
N. Y., Holt. S. (Leisure hour ser.) $1.

” A very' good story by the authoress of* Delicia’ and * Miss
Molly,’ and it has much of the sweetness and delicate but
high feeling of those stories. She is alway's pure and true,
and her tales' are excellent reading, especially for young
girls.” — Boston Advertiser.

Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Letters and memorials ;
prepared for pub. by T: Carlyle, ed. by James
Anthony Froude. N. Y., Scribner. 2 v. O.

^4. . .

“A continuous narrative of Mrs. Carlyle’s life from the
date of the removal from Craigenputlock to Chelsea in 1834
until her death in 1866. The story of her young woman-
hood and early married years has already been related in
Mr. Froude’s account of the first forty' years of her hus-
band’s career. The reader of the former book learned to
appreciate the accomplished intellect and amiable charac-
ter of this remarkable woman, and he obtained, too, some
glimpses of the perpetual repression and frequent trials
which she underwent in the uncongenial, we had almost
said the freezing, atmosphere of her husband’s house. The
impressions then made are confirmed and deepened by
these letters and extracts from Mrs. Carlyle’s diary.” —
M. PV. Hazeltine in the N. Y. Suu.

Carlyle, T:, atid Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The
correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph
Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872. Bost., James R.
Osgood & Co. 2 V., D. $4 ; hf. cf. $8.

“ Extends over a period of nearly forty years, and t’nrows
a great deal of light on the relations and the respective
opinions, aims, and character of the writers.”

Crane, Lucy. Art and the formation of taste ;
six lectures, with il. drawn by T: and Walter
Crane. N. Y., Macmillan. D. $2.

” Entirely of the latest artistic school. Miss Crane, in

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these easy lectures on art and taste, interprets Ruskin and
Morris, and appeals to Burne-Jones. Her aim, seemingly,
is to preach high art, and yet show that this is not neces-
sarily high-and-dry art.” — Academy.

Creighton, M. History of the papacy during
the Reformation. Bost., Houghton, Mifflin
cS: Co. 2 V., O. $16.

“ We predict thatTor many years this will be the book
most often taken in hand by those who seek for a knowledge
of the time it covers.”—

Daudet, Alphonse. L’ Evangeliste : a Parisian
novel: tr. by Mary Neal Sherwood. Phil.,
Peterson, sq. S. $1.25 ; pap., 75 c.

Intended as a picture of Protestant fanaticism in France.
Has been much read, though generally considered artisti-
cally inferior to Daudet’s previous works. Free from the
“ objectionable ” features of ordinary French novels.

Ebers, Georg. A word, only a word : a ro-
mance ; from the German by Mary J. Safford.
N. Y., Gottsberger. S. 75 c. ; pap., 50 c.

“The scene is laid in the reign of Philip II. of Spain,
and introduces the terrors of the Inquisition and the Span-
ish excesses in the Netherlands. . . . The early chapters,
treating of the hero’s youth, contain many charming pict-
ures ; but before the middle of the book the most attractive
characters disappear from its pages.”

Feuillet, Octave. A Parisian romance. {Un
roman Parisien.) Phil., Peterson. sq. S.
pap. 50 c.

“The original title was Hhtoire <€ utte Parisienne ;
under this name ‘ The History of a Parisienne,’ it was
published by this house in i88i. Also issued July 30, ’81,
in the Seaside Library under the title, ‘Jeanne; or, the
History of a Parisienne.’ ”

Field, H: M., D.D. On the desert ; with a
brief review of recent events in Egypt. N. Y.,
Scribner. O. $2.

“ The charm of Mr. Field’s volume lies in its simplicity,
its directness, its fidelity to fact, and its suggestions of the
picturesque.” — R. H. Stoddard in the Mail and express.

Gilder, W: H. Ice-pack and tundra: an ac-
count of the search for the Jeannette and a
sledge journey through Siberia. N. Y., Scrib-
ner. maps and il. O. $4.

“ A simple, straightforward story, creditable to the au-
thor’s faculty for observation and to his modesty, bravery,
and fertility of resource.” — Bost. Traveller.

Gilman, Daniel C. James Monroe in his rela-
tions to the public service during half a cen-
tury, 1776 to 1826. Bost., Houghton, Mifflin
& Co. S. (American statesmen ser.) $1.25.

“ Mr. Gilman produces no small amount of fresh material
for elucidating the history of our government at a time
when several important questions — notably the Monroe
doctrine — were engaging public attention.” — Publishers'
iveekly .

Godwin, P. Biography of Wm. Cullen Bry-
ant, with extracts from his private correspon-
dence. Appleton. 2 V. sq. 8“. gilt top. $6.
“ Is not a biography of the first American poet, but a his-
tory, in its own manner, of American literature for 70 years,
— that is, from the publication of Bryant’s ‘Embargo’ in
1808, till his death.” — Springfield Republican.

“ A great deal of new light is thrown upon the poet’s life,
early and late, and there are letters which the world will be
extremely glad to possess and to remember,” — N . Y . Times.

Gosse, Edmund W: On viol and flute : poems.
N. Y., Holt. $1.75.

“The atmosphere of scholarship pervades them all; the
influence of classical studies and classical associations has
determined m many instances the choice of subject and
treatment.” — The Critic.

Graham, H: Grey. Rousseau. Phil., Lippin-
cott. S. (For. classics for Eng. readers.) $1.

“ Distinguished by conscientiousness and thoroughness of
work.” — A thenceum.

Haweis, Rev. H. R. American humorists.
N. Y., Funk & Wagnalls. D. (Standard lib.)
pap., 15 c.

Popularly written lectures on Washington Irving, Oliver
Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Artemus Ward,
Mark Twain, and Bret Harte.

Hawthorne, Julian. Dust: a novel. N. Y.,
Fords, Howard & Hulbert. D. (Our con-
tinent lib.) $1.25.

“An interesting story with an elaborate plot, a better
finished novel than his others, and with no disgusting
deformity like that which disfigures some of his former
eflbrts. But it is very immature.” — Boston Advertiser.

Haydn, Jos. Dictionary of dates. \'^th ed.,
containing the history of the world to the
autumn of 1881, by B: Vincent, revised for
American readers. N. Y., Harper. O. $6.

“ The difference between the two editions is largely in
favor of the American edition.” — N. Y.Mail and express.

Hood, Edwin Paxton. Oliver Cromwell : his
life, times, battlefields, and contemporaries.
N. Y., Funk & Wagnalls, 1883. 286 p. D.

(Standard lib.) pap., 25 c.

“Mr. Hood’s style is peculiarly adapted to biographical
work, especially to the delineation of strong, rugged char-
acters. These qualities have enabled him to succeed in his
aim to produce a ‘popular and portable’ volume such as
he claims has not been written heretofore.” — Congre-
gationalist.

James, H:,yr. The siege of London ; The pen-
sion Beaurepas ; and The point of view.
Bost., Osgood, D. $1.50.

“ In the best range of his peculiar style — as closely stud-
ied, as compact with minute material, as sharp with wit of
the finely polished, sarcastic order, as his best.” — Critic.

Kiddle, H:, and Schem, Alex. J., eds. The
cyclopaedia of education : dictionary of infor-
mation for the use of teachers, school officers,
parents, and others. 3^/ ed., with appendix.

N. Y., Steiger. O. $5 ; pap., uncut edges, $4
(also in 4 divisions at $i each) ; leath., $6.

The present edition has an appendix of ten pages, giving

the latest educational statistics to 1883.

Kollock, H: \comp.'\ History of New York
State ; embracing historical, descriptive, and
statistical notices. N, Y:, H: Kollock. il.

O. I1.50.

Liddell, H. G., and Scott, R. \comp.'\ Greek-
English lexicon, ^th ed., rev. Harper. 4*^.
shp-. $10,

“ Truly a magnificent work, both in its exterior form and
in its contents. It would be difficult to say wherein it falls
short of the ideal of a Greek-English lexicon.” — Profi. W.
S. Tyler., A mherst College.

McMaster, J: Bach. A history of the people
of the United States, from the revolution to
the civil war. In 5 v. V. 1. N. Y., Apple-
ton, O. $2.50.

“ What the late Prof. J. R. Green did for his countrymen
by writing his ‘ History of the English People,’ Mr. John
Bach McMaster has essayed to do for us. ... He carries
out in a complete, vivid, and delightful way his promise to
describe the dress, the occupations, the amusements, the
literary canons of the several epochs. To note the changes
in morals as well as manners ; to trace the growth of a hu-
mane spirit in legislation and the influence of more enlight--
ened views upon public opinion ; to recount the manifold
improvements, the multifarious inventions and discoveries
which have marvellously augmented the conveniences of
life and the productive power of labor,” — N. Y. Sun.

Maxwell, J. C., Life of, with sel., from his
correspondence, etc., by L. .Campbell and W.

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Garnett. 3 steel pors. and col. pi. Macmil-
lan. O. $6.

Muzzey, a. B. Reminiscences and memorials
of men of the revolution and their families.
Bost., Estes & Lauriat. por. and il. O. $2.50.

Biographical sketches of the Otis family, Adams family,
Quincy, Lincoln, Parker, Monroe, Brown, Kirkland and
Ellery families ; of William Ellery Channing ; Revolution-
ary men in the war of 1812 ; Oliver Hazard Perry; Andrew
Jackson; Boutelle family; Lafayette; Emerson, the pa-
triot, and men of the Southern and Middle States in the
Revolution. Also a complete history of the Society of the
Cincinnati, its formation, members, etc.

Nasmyth, J a. James Nasmyth, engineer: an
autobiography ; ed. by S: Smiles. N. Y.,
Harper. Q. (Harper’s Franklin sq. lib.) pap.,
20 c.

Life of a Scotch engineer, b. at Edinburgh, Aug. 19, 1808.
He invented the steam hammer (1*839), the steam pile-driver
(1843), chilled iron shot (1862), and many other useful and
wonderful mechanical contrivances.

“Emphatically a book for young men.” — Boston Com-
monwealth.

Nicoll, H. J. Landmarks of English litera-
ture. Appleton. D. $1.75.

“ Mr. Nicoll’s literary criticism is neither original nor
profound, but he writes tolerably good English, echoes
conventional criticisms, and sets a large number of literary
facts in orderly and convenient array.” — Phila. North
A merican.

Ogilvie, J; The imperial dictionary of the Eng-
lish language. Netv ed., revised and augment-
ed ; ed. by C: Annandale ; il. by above 3000
engravings printed in the text. N. Y., The
Century Co. 4 V. Q. $20 ; hf. rus., $25.

“ Probably the most comprehensive and exhaustive work
of the kind that has ever been placed before the English-
speaking public.” — Phil. North American.

“ The definitions'in general are terse and explicit, care
being taken to explain clearly what is not familiar, and to
dismiss in a single line or compact phrase what every 'reader
may be expected to know.” — N . Y. Tribune.

Oliphant, Mrs. M. O. W. It was a lover and
his lass : a novel. N.Y., Harper. Q. (Har-
per’s Franklin sq. lib.) pap., 20 c.

“ She has never more effectively set forth the character-
istics of the old-fashioned Scottish gentlewoman than in
the portraits of Margaret, Jean, ‘and Lilias Murray.” —
Athen^um.

Perry, T: Sergeant. English literature in the
eighteenth century. N. Y., Harper. D. $2.

“ It sets forth judgments which are usually sound, in lan-
guage which is always entertaining.” — Pnila. North A mer-
ican.

Has made liberal use (with due acknowledgment) of the
works of Symonds, Leslie Stephen, and M. Beljame.

PiCTON, J. Allanson. Oliver Cromwell : the
man and his mission. N. Y., Cassell, Petter,
Galpin & Co. O. $2.50.

“ Next to Carlyle as an interpreter of Oliver Cromwell we
musj place the author of the remarkable volume before us.
He is clearly no theorist determined to press his hero into
some narrow mould of his own making, but a careful
searcher, who has weighed every fragment of evidence that
has come before him.”— Peacock in the Academy.

Porter, N. Science and sentiment. Scribner’s
Sons. D. $2.50.

Quincy, Josiah. Figures of the past from leaves
of old journals. Bost., Roberts. D. $1.50.

“ Most interesting reminiscences reproduce in the most
vivid^ manner the life and times of 50 years ago, more or
less, in Boston, in Massachusetts, and in Washington.” —
Boston Post.

Romanes, G; J. Animal intelligence. N. Y.,

Appleton, D, (Internat. scientific ser.) cl.,
$i-75-

“The volume altogether will take rank at once as the
standard work on the subject with which it deals ; and any
future text-book of comparative psychology will necessarily
proceed to build upon the solid foundation here laid down.”
— Grant Allen in the Academy.

Russell, F. T, Use of the voice in reading
and speaking. Appleton. D, $1.50.

“ Good for use in a competent teacher’s hands ; but fur
mere private use, any attempt, such as here, to express in
words what can be described and enforced only by the liv-
ing voice, must prove to be a failure.” — N. Y. Times.

SiMCOX, G: A, History of Latin literature from
Ennius to Boethius. N. Y., Harper. 2 v.
D. $4. ^

“ Comprehensive, .scholarly, luminous, and interesting.” —
Phila. North American,

Smith, R, Bosworth. Life of Lord Lawrence.
N. Y., Scribner. 2 v. pors. and maps. O.

$5.

“ He has written from materials that he alone was known
to possess. . . . Outspoken on the subject of the sources
of the mutiny, and a valuable contribution to the general
political history of British rule in India.” — N. Y. Mail and
express.

Spofford, Ainsworth R,, ed. American almanac
and treasury of facts, statistical, financial, and
political, for the year 1883, N. Y. and Wash.,
American News Co. Library ed., p. D. cl.,
$1,50 ; Popular ed., 281 p, D, pap., 25 c.
Statesman’s year-book : statistical and his-
^ torical annual of the states of the civilized
world for 1883 ; 20th annual pub., rev. after
official returns, [by J. Scott Keltic.] N. Y.,

, Macmillan. D. $3.

Topelius, Z. Times of Gustaf Adolf ; trans-
lated from the original Swedish. Chic., Jan-
sen, McClurg & Co, D. (The surgeon’s
stories.) $1.25.

The first of the famous series of “ Surgeon’s stories.”

Winks, W: E: Lives of illustrious shoemakers,
N. Y., Funk & Wagnalls. D. (Standard lib.)
pap., 25 c.

Both in ancient and modern times, interest has been felt
in shoemakers, as a class, on account of their remarkable
intelligence and the large number of eminent men who
have risen from their ranks. Includes Sir Cloudesley
Shovel, James Lackington, William Gifford, Robert Bloom-
field, etc.

Warning to Unsuspecting Buyers. — A
book entitled “A jolly summer,” just pub-
lished by White, Stokes & Allen, New York,
1883, is the same literatim et punctuatim as a
work published by Carleton, New York, 1880,
under the title of “ College tramps, a narrative
of the adventures of a party of Yale students
during a summer vacation in Europe. By
Frederick A. Stokes.” No intimation whatever
of the identity of the former with the latter is
given anywhere in its pages. — A similar fraud
is the reissue of Mrs. Annie Edwardes’s “ Or-
deal for wives,” first published in 1873, as No,
8 of a “New series,” with the title “Delicate
ground,” and the first three pages so altered
that any one who compared the beginning of the
books would suppose they were different. (Sec
also above, Feuillet.)

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(fr.eneval |lotfs.

The Brooklyn Library has received in the
last year $85,000.

ApriiENTiCEs'^LiBRARY, N. Y. — “ Of late years
there has been a marked improvement in the
character of the readers added each year.”

Mr. J. T. Bulmkr, of Halifax, N. S., is try-
ing to procure a change in the Dominion tariff,
whereby books, etc., imported direct for libra-
ries, etc., may be admitted free of duty.

The Hon. Frederick Billings, of Woodstock,
Vt., has supplemented his gift to the Vermont
University of a $15,000 library with $75,000 fora
library building.

At Tours, in consequence of numerous com-
plaints. a commission was formed to investigate
the public library ; they discovered that many
books and manuscripts had been abstracted,
whereupon the library was closed for a time.

British Museum. — The Bookseller calls for
“ some limit to the issue of tickets of admission
to the reading-room. It is frequently so crowd-
ed that late arrivals have difficulty in finding
a vacant seat, while many of the desks are oc-
cupied by idlers, for whom the use of the room
was never intended.”

The Ottoman Government, having inquired
into the management of the mosque libraries^ has
now instituted an Ottoman Public Library, which
is housed in buildings adjoining the mosque
of Sultan Bayazid. With this is to be combined
the library of the Ministry of Public Instruc-
tion. Great efforts are making to obtain dona-
tions from private libraries.

The Bibliotheque Nationale has a photo-
graphic room. Operators are obliged to furnish
their own apparatus ; the objects photographed
are never put into their hands, but are always
in charge of an employ^ of the library. This
rule is adhered to very strictly. The use of the
room is increasing rapidly, and it is said that
some operators have taken as many as 200 plates.

San Francisco, besides its Public Library and
its Mercantile Library, has a Mechanics’ Insti-
tute Library, a Law Library, an Odd Fellows’
Library, the library of the French National
League (12,000 v.), the library of the Indepen-
dent Order of the B’nai B’rith (4060 v.). the li-
brary of the Ancient Order of Druids (half in
German), the library of the Improved Order of
Red Men (1000 v.), and a Biblioteca Espanola
e Hispano-Americana, just organized.

Sydney Free P. L. — “Although not forming
a portion of the Garden Palace, had the wind
been in a different direction nothing could have
saved Macquain Street, and with it necessarily
would have fallen the Free Public Library and
all its contents, including the unique collection
of works relating to Australia. It at once

shows the necessity that all buildings holding
such valuable contents, although contiguous to
each other, should be isolated, and so far as
possible each separate section should be fire-
proof. The necessity for such extreme care lies
not only in the value of the property stored,
but- in the fact that in many cases the contents
can never by any possible outlay be replaced.”
— 7'rubner.

Congressional Library. — The senate library
committee will meet soon to oversee some
necessary additions to the library space. They
will include the rooms adjoining the old hall of
representatives ; but the rooms are low and in-
convenient, and entirely unsuited to the uses of
the library. In addition to the Toner collection,
now immured in the damp recesses of the Capitol
crypt, a large number of books in the library
will soon be moved down there and put on the
temporary shelving which is now preparing.
If no building is authorized by the next Con-
gress, the idea suggested by Mr. Townshend, of
Illinois, will have to be adopted — to take out
one third of the books and burn them in order
to make room for the rest.

Bodleian Library. — The Curators have sanc-
tioned an experiment which not only gives a
large immediate increase of staff, but tends in-
directly to realize the idea of making the Bod-
leian a training-school for library-assistants.
Six boys are to be engaged as under-assistants,
working six hours daily, and receiving los. a
week ; their salary will not be increased, and so
in a few years they will necessarily leave, and
giv-e place to a new set — but they will be en-
couraged and helped to qualify for library-assist-
antships elsewhere, and to gain the certificate
of the L, A. U. K. As they are required to
have a fair knowledge of Latin, and some knowl-
edge of French, to start with ; as the lightness
of the hours will leave them time for self-im-
provement ; and as the pressure of work in
the Bodleian necessitates quickness, no less than
the nature of it necessitates extreme accuracy,
it is hoped that public and other libraries may
be inclined to look to the Bodleian as a source
from which they can draw exceptionally well-
qualified junior assistants.

PUBLISHER'S NOTICE.

The offer to print the cooperative index in the
Lih'ary journal was made in order to extend
its benefit to the public at large, and it is hoped
that the result will be such as to encourage the
continuation of the useful work. Although the
addition of the feature will considerably increase
the expenses of the journal, those who already
have subscribed for the current year will be en-
titled to the index without any additional charge
until the end of the year. It will be necessary,
however, to raise the subscription price to $4
for any subscription received after this date, and,
should the index be continued, also for re-
newals of subscriptions in 1884.

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politician thinks oj the next election; a statesman, 0/ the next generation. A politician looks for the suc-
cess of his party : a statesman, for that of the country. The statesman wishes to steer, while the politician is satis-
fied to drift.'" — James Freeman Clarke.

“ Of all studies the most delightful and the most useful is biography." — Walter Savage Landor.

AMERICAN STATESMEN.

A SERIES OF BIOGRAPHIES OF MEN CONSPICUOUS IN THE
POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.

EDITED BY

JOHN T. MORSE, Jr.

John Quincy Adams. By John T. Morse, Jr., author of a “Life of Alexander
Hamilton,” etc.

Alexander Hamilton. By Henry Cabot Lodge, author of “ The English Colonies
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chambeau’s Army, 1781. Romant de la Rose, Paris, 1538, with beautiful woodcuts, and of extreme rarity. The Plays of
Nicholas Rowe, first editions. A superb copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle, very large, clean, and beautifully bound.
The Plays of Elkanah Settle, 1675-1694, originals. The Plays of Thomas Shadwell, first editions, 1675-1696: The first
four folio editions of Shakespeare, in superb condition, and the Halliwell folio Shakespeare. The Plays of James Shirley,
all original editions, 1638-1655. Spenser’s Fairy Queen, both the first and the second editions, 1500-1596. Spenser’s
Complaints, 1591. Spenser’s Colin Clouts, 1595, and also the first folio editions of Spenser, all in beautiful condition.
Stirling’s Annals of the Artists of Spain, uncut. Sturt’s Book of Common Prayer, a magnificent work, every page of
which IS engraved on copper; large paper, very rare. Taylor, the Water Poet, folio, 1630. 'I'homson’s Seasons, original
editions, 1728. A copy of NIi’lar’s quarto edition of Thomson’s Poetical Works, 1736, enriched by the addition of pre-
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nisba ; also the sale of Thomson to Millar of the enuie property in Summer, Winter, and many other poems, and various
other most valuable papers ; a unique book. Vaughan’s Golden Fleece, 1626. Waller’s Poems, 1645, a beautiful copy of
a very rare book. Besides these which are enumerated, there are a great many others just as worthy of enumeration.
The publications of Pickering and of Baskerville are here in large numbers, and many specimens of printing and en-
graving previous to 1500.

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Editorial 71

A. L. Annual Meeting. — Poole’s Index, its size. —

N, Y. libraries.

Appeal of a State Librarian. — Mrs. S. B. Max-

well. . . . . 72

Convict Indexes 72

Unwelcome Library Visitors 74

A Vandal’s Suggestion 75

Book-Thirst.— 7. M. H. . . .

Library Economy and History

Bibliografy

Anonyms and Pseudonyais . .
Literature for the Young.
Library Purchase List . . .

General Notes

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day to Friday, August 14-17. Let every librarian
so arrange his vacation that he can spend
that week at Buffalo, and, if possible, the Satur-
day and Sunday following at the Falls of
Niagara. Our Buffalo friends have already
organized committees who will see to it that re-
duced fares are obtained on the railroads and
lower rates at the hotels, both at Buffalo and
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Niagara may well take the place of a stay at the
Isles of Shoals or the White Mountains.

What has struck us most in the English
notices of Poole’s Index is their surprise, real or
affected, at its size. They doubt whether it will
ever pay for the enormous labor expended on

No. 5.

it ; they hint that it is too large to be con-
veniently used. It may be that this is merely
because a reviewer thinks some fault must be
found with every book, and the size is a ready
resource in a book which does not present other
obvious handles for blame. In one case the
very number that contained this objection had a
highly laudatory notice of Ogilvie’s Imperial
dictionary, which is about eight times as large.
We have seen no complaint made of the size
which the English Philological Society’s diction-
ary is sure to attain. Why should there be ?
How could these dictionaries or our Index have
fulfilled their ends without being large ? If any
attempt had been made to exclude say half the
articles on the ground of inferior literary merit
or of less importance, not only would the labor
of preparation have been enormously increased,
but the result would inevitably have been un-
satisfactory. A chorus of complaints would have
come up from all sides. Already there are those
who ask why certain other magazines were not
included, and hope that they will make part of
the first five-yearly supplement.

The growing favor with which the New York
Free Public Library is regarded promises well
for this city ; but it must not cast into the shade
the good work of some others. The Appren-
tices’ Library is free to all females employed in
any legitimate business, clerks under eighteen,
and all males engaged in mechanical employ-
ments, without respect to age, and under the
care of Mr. Schwartz is distributing 165,000
volumes a year, to 8500 readers. Another
library is doing a good work in a small
way and by its use offering additional proof
that the want of books is much felt here.
It is that of the De Witt Memorial, a miscel-
laneous library composed of standard works of
fiction, history, biography, travel, science, and
religion for the benefit of the Sunday-school and

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\^May, ’83.

the public of every creed and nationality. Every
one is welcomed as a member, with the right to
draw books, if trustworthy and observant of the
rules. The library is the only public one on the
east side. It is open twice a week and in eleven
months has circulated 8000 volumes. Forty-two
per cent of the readers are adults. Such re-
sults accomplished with a few volumes amply
justify the desire expressed by the directors of
the Free Circulating Library, to establish rnan)^
small branches in different parts of the city,
especially the poorer quarters. The poor can-
not go great distances to get books. Even the
Mercantile, though addressing a class that can
better afford to travel, has complained from time
to time that its situation stood in the way of its
usefulness.

APPEAL OF A STATE LIBRARIAN.

Iowa State Library,

Des Moines, April 23, 1883.

My Friends : Will you assist me in res-
cuing from the oblivion to which time is
rapidly consigning it the early history of
our State, by sending me — to be carefully
preserved in the State Library and catalogued
in such manner as to be easily accessible
—books, pamphlets, sheets, proceedings of so-
cieties, scraps of history, anything and every-
thing printed or manuscript which tends to pre-
serve the history — natural, civil, ecclesiastical,
and literary; biography, poetry, fiction, jurispru-
dence. everything in any way relating to Iowa
or her people, and everything written by Iowa
authors.

There is now in the library, a beginning, a few
Iowa books and pamphlets that shall serve as a
nucleus around which must grow into grand
proportions the department to be known as the
“ Literature of Iowa.”

To the editors and publishers of newspapers
and magazines, I would suggest that a file of
each publication in the State Library would be
an invaluable aid to the object sought to be at-
tained, and I respectfully request that copies be
sent to me. Ample accommodation for their
preservation and use has been provided in the
Library Room in the New Capitol.

A list of the names of literary persons in the
State, to be used in an appendix to the cata-
logue of the library, is earnestly desired. Will all
such persons please send me their names and
the names of others known to them, together
with a list of their writings?

With an earnest desire to preserve to future
generations the names and good work done by
Iowa authors and writers, I am

Most cordially yours,

Mrs. S. B. Maxwell,

State Librarian.

‘‘CONVICT INDEXES.”

To the Editor of the Nation :

Sir : Will you allow me to offer a suggestion
on the subject of convict labor ? It is this :
Let all convicts who can read and write, be set,
under competent supervision, to indexing books ;
and let those who cannot, receive the necessary
instruction as soon as may be.

It is almost an insult to your penetration to
point out the advantages of this plan. 1 may
mention, however —

That it will not conflict with the interests of
any class of laboring persons, or at least any
that has a claim to consideration ;

That the kind of labor proposed is peculiarly
suited to the reformatory idea, being incompar-
able for teaching order, patience, humility, and
for thoroughly eradicating the last trace of the
Old Adam in whoever pursues it.

I am, sir, etc., Anobium Pertinax.

Johns Hopkins University, Feb. 2, 1883.

To the Editor of the Dial :

If some future compiler of American humor
should wish to make a chapter on “ Elephantine
Jokes and their Authors,” he will thank us for
contributing to the list the name of Mr. Wm.
Hand Brown, the Librarian of Johns Hopkins
University, and the solution of ihe riddle which
he furnished to the A^ation of Feb. 8, p. 123, in
the form of a communication on Convict In-
dexes.” The indexing of books he regarded as
work peculiarly adapted to the taste and capacity
of convicts in our penitentiaries. If they cannot
read, they ought to be taught the alphabet for
this purpose. The communication was dated at
‘‘ Johns Hopkins University,” and had a fictitious
signature in bad Latin. The name of so re-
spectable an institution inspired curiosity ; and
a note was addressed to the editor of the Nation,
asking the real name of the writer, his connec-
tion with Johns Hopkins University, and, was
he a convict ? The note was sent by the editor
to the writer in Baltimore, who replied over
another assumed signature in correct Latin, that
he was the writer, that he was a convict, that his
ancestors before him had been convicts, and that
he ” looked forward with some assurance to the
day when ‘ Convict Indexes,’ in tasteful striped
bindings, would be found in all libraries.” A
note was then sent to President Gilman, inclos-
ing the handwriting, and asking for the name,
and the official position in his institution, of the
anonymous writer. The president courteously
replied, and gave both, as stated above. The
article in the N'alion, he said, was intended as
a joke ; and whatever might be thought of its
jocosity, the writer was an estimable and ami-
able person. To cast odium or ridicule on work
so useful to students and literary men as the in-
dexing of books was the last thing which would
occur to so good a man. It seems, therefore,
that for once Mr. Browne wanted to be funny ;
and his success was that of the elephant who
attempted to dance a hornpipe. We accept the
explanation, and record it among the curiosities
of humor. W. F. Poole.

Mj.\\ ’83.]

THE LIBRARY JOURNAL.

To the Editor of the Nation :

Sir: Mr. W. F. Poole havincf made an on-
slaught upon me touching an inoffensive note in
your columns, 1 must pray you of your courtesy
to allow me a few words in answer.

My suggestion that convict labor should be
employed in the manufacture of indexes was not
altogether original, being a recommendation of
Joseph Scaliger’s. He, however, looked rather
to the penal advantages, while I was chiefly
moved by the wish to relieve many worthy .'per-
sons of an humble, though certainly useful,
drudgery, of which I can speak feelingly, having
made indexes myself. Neither Mr, Poole nor
his Index was at any time in my mind.

Mr, Poole, however, imagined that I was bias
pheming both him and his book, and waxed ex-
ceeding wroth ; apparently under the hallucina-
tion that no one can mention an index without
thinking of his, and an uneasy suspicion that, if
any one laughs, he is probably laughing at him.
This was all so absurd that it was notin human
nature to refrain from treating him to a little
harmless persiflage ; which seems to have irrita-
ted him to a quite extraordinary extent, as other-
wise I am sure he would never have committed
such a breach of literary good manners as to pub-
lish my name, and, what is vvorse, the private
communications of a third person, without per-
mission given in either case.

Mr. Poole compares me to an elephant. The
elephant is a noble animal, and I do not disdain
the comparison. But to that particular historical
elephant who, pushing where he had no business,
and, getting pricked with a needle, responded with
a ferocious and unpleasant douche — it seems to me
the counterpart might be found in another quarter.

However, Mr. Poole evidently suffers from
hypersesthesla, and his is a case for sympathy,
not for smiles. It were inhuman to molest him
further ; and — since levity so offends him — I .
trust that in future his name and that of his
Index will raise a general sadness whenever
spoken. Wm. Hand Browne.

To the Editor of the Nation :

Sir : Probably Mr. Poole will accept the role
of the elephant which Mr. Browne assigns him
in your last issue, as in that little story the laugh
is on the tailor rather than on the elephant. But,
leaving aside the interesting question whether it
is in Baltimore or in Chicago that the elephant is
to be seen, I wish to beg the favor of a few lines
in which to assure Mr. Browne that his former
communication was not so “inoffensive” as he
would like it to appear. Of course it’s the g^led
jades that wince. Should the Nation print a
“ facetious” note, averring that the work of libra-
rians is “fit only for old maids or decayed par-
sons,” it is to be presumed that Mr. Browne’s
withers would not be altogether unwrung. No
more can we, who have made indexing the field
for the exercise of our best energies and efforts,
and found in it ample scope for all our powers
and all possible culture and scholarship, consider
inoffensive the suggestion that it is mere hack-
work, drudgery, convict labor.

But it is not the offensiveness to us indexers
of such a suggestion that I would make most
prominent, or ask your space to point out. It is
rather the fact that it voices one of the rankest
literary heresies of the age — namely, the idea
that anybody can make an index, if he only
knows the alphabet. The Nation could nowise
better serve the book-users of this day and gen-
eration than by doing its best to root out this her-
esy, by exposing the results of “ convict index-
ing ” as shown in the many published indexes
made on the hack-work plan. May I add three
instances lately noticed ? The index to Scrib-
ner''s Monthly (vols, i.-x. ) contains no refer-
ence to engraving, simply because the article in
volume iv. is called “The Graphic Art.” An
important article in Harper's magazine on Mex-
ico is not cited in the index (vols. i.-xl.) under
Mexico, but only under Aztecs, because it is
called “ Land of ihe Aztecs,” And, to cap the
climax, an illustrated article on the East River
Bridge, in Appletons' jo7irnal, appears in the al-
phabetical index of the volume only under “ Spi-
ders, Up among the !”

The index to the Popitlar science monthly just
issued by the publishers of that journal is from
one end to the other a good example of “con-
vict-indexing.” Shall we, who rejoice in the
character of professional indexers, take it kindly
if we are asked to let the “ convicts ” take all
indexing into their own hands ? Rather shall
we not magnify our office, and insist that such
first-class literary work be no longer butchered
by being put into the hands of hacks and
drudges ? W. I. F.

Hartford, Ct., April 23, 1883.

To the Editor of the Nation :

Sir: I fancy all who were interested in the
subject were as much astonished at the savage
onslaught made, in another journal, on the author
of the amusing and inoffensive (if not specially
brilliant) suggestion about “convict indexes”
as the unfortunate writer must have been. Mr.
Browne, however, is evidently quite able to de-
fend himself, and I wish merely to point out the
flaws in “ W. I. F.’s” argument.

1. He asumes that convict labor is unskilled
and bungling, whereas I believe prisons turn
out as good quality of such articles as they make
{e.g., hats, furniture, etc.) as other establish-
ments. Convict hat-makers, of course, have to
be trained, but so also do indexers.

2. “ W. I. F.” calls the index to the Popular
science monthly “ an example of convict index-
ing.” It is gross injustice to the industrial
prison system to think for a moment that any
prison which employed its convicts in indexing
would allow such work to go forth.

3. It is obvious that if the occurrence of such

errors as ” W. I. F.” cites stamps an index as
convict labor (I have remarked how unjust to
convicts such nomenclature is), then certain
“ professional indexers ” must be convicts in
disguise, for errors equally singular have been
pointed out in your columns as occurring in
“ Poole.’; • i W. M. G.

■ Library of Congress, Washington, April 26, 1883.

[May, ’83.

THE LIBRAR

To the Editor of the Nation.

Sir : To my claim that indexing is work wor-
thy of the painstaking efforts of the best and
most cultured intelligence, “ W. M. G.,” in your
last issue, offers no rebuttal, and I cannot see
the raison d'etre of his communication. If I do
not misread the initials, ’twere strange indeed if
“ W. M. G.” were willing to admit that index-
ing is only an “humble, though useful drudg-
ery.” Rut I feel called upon to notice two of
his assertions : i. “ ‘ W. I. F.’ assumes that con-
vict labor is unskilled and bungling.” No, not
that ; I dimply say that it lacks brains and heart
and that indexing which shows neither intelli-
gence in nor love for the work is fairly called
convict indexing. 2. “... Errors equally sin-
gular have been pointed out in your columns
as appearing in ‘Poole’” “W. M. G.” ap-
pears to forget that the indexing in Poole is not
mainly the work of its editors. If some of the
collaborators, sharing Mr. Browne’s heresy,
farmed out their share of the work, no wonder
if some results of the convict system of indexing
appear in the completed work. But I am quite
willing that the contrast between the “convict”
and the “ professional ” systems of indexing
should stand or fall by the results of a compari-
son of ” Poole ” with any of the indexes I cited
in my previous note, with regard not to fre-
quency of “errors” (a minor point), but rather
to efficiency and practical value as an index.
And at the same time I wish to appeal to the
candor of “ W. M, G.” himself, whether this
sentence of his as to “ errors equally singular”
is not an overstatement. W. I. F.

Hartford, Ct., May 4, 1883.

UNWELCOME LIBRARY VISITORS.

Quiet, well-behaved persons of literary tastes
ar^ not the only patrons of the city libraries.
These are undoubtedly in the majority, but there
are others whose almost daily presence is an an-
noyance to officers and visitors, a source of loss
to "the institutions themselves, and a cause of
constant watchfulness on the part of the police.
They may be generally characterized as ” cranks,”
thieves, and vandals. The reading-room of the
Cooper Union is a popular resort for eccentric
people. Admission is free, and each visitor who
behaves himself is given a check and passed in.
The check is returned on leaving the room. It
serves as a record of the number of patrons
daily, and, as it must be presented in exchange
for a book, and obtained again before passing
out, it is not easy to rob the library. “ Cranks ”
are very fond of Cooper Union, and most of the
harmless lunatics at large in the city at one time
or another have found their way there. Occa-
sionally they become very offensive and have to
be ejected. They talk to themselves with such
vigor as to be heard all over the room. They
take offence easily, imagine everybody is oppos-
ed to them in some way and disposed to injure
them, and often get into hot water with visitors
who are disposed to answer insults with a blow.
They require more waiting on at the hands of

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the attendants than any other class, and usually
have some hobby about which they read omniv-
orously. There used to be an old German who,
enveloped in a strong odor of garlic, dropped in
at the Astor Library daily. His clothes were
unkempt and ragged, and his hair was dressed
in the Celestial fashion. He pretended to be a
titled personage of great learning, and would
devour Goethe day after day and cover the tables
with little pieces of dirty paper on which he
scribbled mysterious characters. There was also
a Portuguese who would call for volumes of Lope
de Vega every day and pore over only a single
page in the course of hours.

Whenever a storm arises there is a rush of
curious persons to Cooper Union. The reading-
room affords shelter from the rain or snow, and
wanderers who cannot read a line bend over the
printed page as studiously as more fortunate
visitors. Tramps leave the shelter late in the
afternoon in time to look around for the night’s
lodging. They are fond of the more obscure
portions of the room, where a sly nap may per-
haps be indulged in without discovery. Sleep-
ing in the reading-room, however, is not con-
fined to tramps, and among the better classes, it
is asserted, most of these offenders are Germans.
The national beverage cannot be alone to blame,
as young German boys have been observed to
have the same weakness. When the sleepers are
awakened, they will invariably maintain with
solemn earnestness that they “ only closed their
eyes for a moment.’’ Drunken men are drawn
as by a magnet to Cooper Union, and are fre-
quently caught crawling up stairs. Hat and
coat thieves stroll in the library. Soft hats that
can be stowed away easily have a charm for
them.

Vandals who mutilate books, pamphlets, and
newspapers have always been the curse of the
Citv libraries, and increase with the number of
patrons. No effective method of detection has
been devised. The Mercantile Library Associa-
tion has long offered a reward of $50 for each
case of detection, but not a penny has been
spent in this direction. Still the mutilations
continue. A reporter was shown volumes of
Knight’s edition of Shakespeare in which dozens
of pages and pictures were cut out bodily.
Appletons’ Cyclopaedia was badly mutilated. A
favorite subject for the vandals is Knight’s
Mechanical Dictionary, many of whose illustra-
tions have been torn or cut out. Librarians do
not ascribe these mutilations to malice. Read-
ers have only in view their own convenience.
It is easier to cut out a favorite passage in a vol-
ume than to copy it, and if a person is making
a collection of pictures, one has no other re-
source than to cut out a pleasing illustration.
Many valuable books are defaced in the city
libraries by boys. Male persons in illustrated
editions are transformed into women, and women
are decorated with mustaches, silk hats, and
other masculine appendages. The comments
of readers are often found on the margins of the
choicest volumes, and are characterized more by
conceit than wisdom. The Mercantile Library

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officers complain that in some of their works on
the drama entire plays are cut out by the vandals.
A few years ago a Frenchman visited the Astor
Library and, volume by volume, received the
Revtie des Dciix Mondes, and mutilated the whole
40 volumes, valued at $300. He was arrested
and convicted, but got off with a fine of only $10.
His defence was that he was “ not acquainted
with the customs of the country.” The Astor
Library suffers most from those who clip out por-
tions of bound newspaper files. The officer in
charge of the room is not successful in detecting
the offenders. The book mutilations continue, al-
though the volumes are scanned before they are
given out and when returned. As this library is
free to the whole city of New York, it is, perhaps
remarkable that mutilations and larceny are not
more frequent. — N. Y. 7'inies.

A VANDAL’S SUGGESTION.

To the Editors of the Boston Daily Advertiser :

Will you allow it to be stated how, as it
strikes the vandal mind, the erection of any new
library building may be postponed for a gener-
ation ?

1. Gather out from the alcoves of the present
edifice, 50,000 volumes of worthless and vicious
trash, and make a bonfire of it.

2. Stop the appropriation of $30,000, which
is said to be the city’s annual outlay for that
class of literature.

3. Send to Cambridge the great mass of rare
and valuable books — and there is a rich store of
them — which are consulted by scholars and
learned men, and not much by the voting work-
ing people of Boston ; and which, with other
similar treasures in the Athenaeum and the
Harvard College Library, if brought together in
one place, as they should be, for the general
good, like the Bodleian, the British Museum, or
the Bibliotheque Nationale, would form the nu-
cleus of a grand institution — an honor and' a
transcendent boon to New England.

But such an institution is one side from the
purpose of a municipal library. Omar.

BOOK-THIRST.

In 1821 a number of the leading citizens of
Edinburgh founded a technical college, called
the School of Arts, for the purpose of giving
young workingmen and mechanics instruction
in the various branches of science. Among the
first students was James Nasmyth, the celebrated
engineer, whose autobiography has recently
been edited by Dr. Smiles (N. Y., Harpers). In
his account of it he says; “A library of sci-
entific books was soon added to the institu-
tion, by purchases or by gifts. Such was the
eagerness to have a chance of getting the book
you wanted, that I remember standing, on many
occasions, for some time amid a crowd of appli-
cants awaiting the opening of the door on an
evening library night. It was as thick as if I
had been standing at the gallery door of the
theatre on a night when some distinguished
star from London was. about to make his appear-
ance.”— Contributed by J. M. H.

litliratj) iEconomg anti fhistorg.

The [Chicago] Public Library. (In Chicago
d. ne7vs, Apr. 6.) 2 col.

A full account of the history, condition, and
prospects of the library. It has 93,000 v., a cir-
culation of 350,000, 50 per cent issued to men,
30 to women, 20 to boys and girls. The present
tax of \ mill will yield $62,500 income, if it is all
appropriated by the Council. It has also a re-
serve fund of about $20,000 for a new building,
$2200 is collected in fines, and from $600 to 800
from the sale of finding lists, duplicates, etc.
$21,000 is paid for salaries, $10,000 for books.

Foster, W : E. Libiaries and readers. N.Y..
F. Leypoldt, 1882. 136 p. S.

Three of the eight chapters have already been
published in the Library jotirnal ; two others
were delivered as lectures. The titles are :
Some hints of right reading. Correction of aim-
less reading. The specializing of reading for gen-
eral readers, “Current literature” and “ Stand-
ard literature,” Securing the interest of a com-
munity, What may be done at home. How to
use a library. Books and articles on reading.

Grassauer, Ferdinand. Handbuch fiir dster-
reichische Universitats- und Studien-Biblio-
theken, sowie fiir Volks-, Mittelschul- und
Bezirks-Lehrer-Bibliotheken; mit einer Samm-
lung von Gesetzen. Wien, Graeser, 1882.
6+314 p. 8". 5 m.

Green, S : S. Libraries and schools. N. Y., F.
Leypoldt, 1883. 126 p. S. cl., 50 c.

A reprint of six papers ; The public library
and the public schools, by C: Francis Adams,
jr. ; The relation of the public library to the
public schools, byS: S. Green (Lib. jnl., 5 : 235-
45) ; Libraries as educational institutions, by
S: S. Green (L. j., 7 : 141-6); The public library
as an auxiliary to the public schools, by Robert
C. Metcalf ; The relation of libraries to the
school system, by W; E. Foster; A plan of
systematic training in reading at school, by
W; E. Foster (L. j., 8 ; 24-6).

Henman & Beddoe, arch. Gilstrap Free Li-
brary, Newark-upon-Trent [plan and view].
(In Building neivs, March 9.)

Hubbard, James M. The Public Library and
the children ; a second appeal. [Boston,
1883.] 12 p. O.

Kongl. Biblioteket, Stockholm. Handlin,gar,

5. Arsberattelse for ar 1882. Bibliografi :
Sverige till fremmande magter. 3 : 1701-1874.
Stockholm, 1883. ii p. and p. 285-430. O.

L. A. U. K. Monthly notes. London, March
15, 1883. 0.

In “ Classed catalogues and the new classed
catalogues of the German Reichsgericht,” Mr.

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\May, ’83.

E. C. Thomas thinks that altho for general col-
lections and general readers some form of the
dictionary catalog is best, yet that there are
“ some kinds of libraries [especially professional
libraries] and some classes of readers calling for
the old classed catalogue, executed, of course,
with all the improvements which time and ex-
perience have been able to suggest. ... It is in
such libraries that classification might be at-
tempted with the best prospect of success. They,
by their nature, exclude by far the largest portion
of that ‘ miscellaneous,’ and nondescript litera-
ture which it is most difficult to classify, and the
classification of which is least worth the trouble it
involves. ... If each of the now important
subjects were thus classified by and for those
familiar with it, we should have made the best
possible start toward a solution of that problem
which the association has undertaken to attempt
to solve — the best system of classification ; and
the attempt ought, it seems to me, to be made
from this side. Let us begin by classifying par-,
ticular subjects, and let them fall in together into
a whole, and thus suggest their own system,
rather than begin by projecting a general scheme
into which everything must be made to fit. We
shall then be more likely to work out a scheme
which may be the delight of those who know
everything in general but nothing in parti^'ular,
but will only cause grief to the judicious in every
particular subject.” Next comes “A distin-
guished librarian,” Cajetan Andrycevitch Kosso-
vich, by H. W. ; then ” Essential features of a
library building,” by W : Archer, in which the
author adopts the plan most completely carried
out by Mr. Winsor in the Roxbury branch of
the Boston Public Library ; ‘‘ (i) the separation
of the reading-rooms used by the public from, but
with easy access to, the adjoining book-rooms in
which the books are stored, and (2) these latter
rooms being supplied with rows of standing
double presses, not more than eight feet in height,
and, say, some three feet apart — one or more ac-
cording to the height of the building, of such ten
feet high stories being superposed and similarly
furnished with book-presses.”

Matthews, J, Brander, /.r. Arthur Penn. Notes

on bookbinding. (In Critic, Apr. 14.) 3^ col.
A MODEL library. (In Boston d. traveller. Mar.

13,) I col.

An account of the library bequeathed to North
Easton, Mass., by Oliver Ames, and further en-
dowed by his widow and his sons. $85,000 have
been spent on the building and on books, and
the library fund is now $40,000. Miss H. H.
Ames, has had the entire charge of selecting and
cataloguing the books.

‘‘ The full index catalogue, in two elegant
volumes, may be regarded as a model of con-
venience and arrangement ; combining the ex-
cellences of the card system with the excel-
lences of the published catalogue.” The build-
ing (Richardson, architect) “is of syenite, with
brown-stone trimmings. It is two stories in
height, the main building containing the offices,
the reading-room, and the dwelling of the libra-

rian. The reading-room is a model in arrange*
ment. The library proper is a single wing run-
ning south of the main building and is beauti-
fully finished in light wood, its two stories of
alcoves furnishing ample facilities for 20,000
volumes. It is doubtful if a building better
designed and arranged for library purposes can
be found in the country. 10,400 volumes are al-
readv on its shelves.”

[O’Meara, H;] Changes in library plans, the
Boston model system, new ideas of catalog-
uing and shelving, the prevailing systems in
Massachusetts. (In Boston Journal, April 30.)
I col.

An account of the Boston Athenaeum system.
PoucHN, Arthur. La bibliolheque du Conserva-
toire de Musique de Paris. (In Le m^nestrel,
fev. 1883.)

To be continued. The writer says, “ It occu-
pies incontestably the first place among all those
which exist at the present day at Vienna, Brus-
sels, London, Milan, and Florence.”

Private libraries of Providence, J ; Carter
Krown. (\x\ Literary world, Feb. to, p. 43-45.)
Rettig, G: Leitfaden der Bibliothekverwaltung,
hauptsachlich filr Jugend- und Volksbiblio-
theken. Bern, Dalp, 1883. 60 p. 8”.

The author thinks that the ordinary books on
library economy shoot over the heads of small
libraries.

Swing, Prof. The Pullman library dedicatory
address. (In Saturday ev(^. herald, Chicago,
Ap. 14.) Q.\ col.

” The beautiful library-room with its 5000
volumes is one more detail in this collection of
things useful and noble. Can a business firm
afford to furnish libraries for artisans ? There
are two answers to this inquiry. Yes, great em-
ployers can afford to be kind to their men. They
cannot afford to build up self at the cost of the
workmen. The happiness of the workmen will
in a higher state of society make up the happiness
of the employers. Peter Cooper took care of
his men when the days were cloudy ; A. T. Stew-
art ground his to powder when even the days
were bright. This is the general answer, but in
this particular case which calls us here to-night,
the 5000 volumes came from George M. Pullman
himself. What a country shall we have when
such an example shall be imitated in all parts of
the land ! There is nothing inexplicable or mys-
terious in the gold thus applied by the founder
of this library ; but should this gentleman give
a Vanderbilt ball we might well be amazed, for
there $100,000, less or more, were lavished upon
the last point between something and nothing.
All the scene was transient as the flowers of the
evening. Such pageants should come but rarely
into our world ; and indeed they are fading away.
They were frequent in Rome in times of war and
plunder, but, as reason advances, such applica-
tions of money and labor decline. We hope the

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rich men of the West will always prefer libraries,
and parks, and drives, and lakes, and music-
temples, and even good theatres to the perishable
display of a ball-room.

“ These remarks must here end to make room
for an hour of more interest. As a clergyman,
I have in formor years helped dedicate churches
to the worship of the Infinite Father. Our task
to-night is similar in import. A library of good
books is almost as sacred as a sanctuary. Here
the mind and heart will be allured away from
sin and temptation. Here in half-hours away
from the noise of wheels, and amid pure and
beautiful associations, the reader will soon feel
the greatness of the world and of man, and will
reach some realization of the duties and even
glory of life. The gentleman who gave these
volumes, and who has been the soul of this new
alliance between capital and labor, has among
the many good works of his life done no one act
more useful or attractive than this last act re-
corded in these many books. I thank him not
only in the name of the grateful citizens of Pull-
man, but in the name of those good and kind
beings in the outer circle who love to see the un-
folding leaves and blossoms of a better civiliza-
tion. ”

Tokio Daigaku [Tokyo {Japati) University].

Reglement der Universitats-Bibliothek. (In

Neue7' Anzeiger, March.) 4 p.

More and more the leading articles in Le
Livre claim the attention of its readers. “ The
Librarians of the Emperor Napoleon I.” is the
subject of the first in the January number, and
is interesting for the light it throws on Napo-
leon’s judgment and selection of men, and for a
glimpse of the “ 695 volumes of jurisprudence,
literature, ancient and modern history, military
art, geography, travels, etc,,” which he took
with him upon his abdication to Elba. The
third paper tells of the formation, neglect, and
restoration of the unsurpassed library of the
Paris Conservatoire de Musique. It is only
lately that full effect has been given to the royal
ordinance of March 29, 1834, providing for the
deposit in this collection of a copy of every mu-
sical publication in France ; but now the library
is very much in the condition of that of Con-
gress, and books piled upon the floors are fast
choking the passages and making research im-
practicable. Both Berlioz and Felicien David
held the post of librarian, but treated it as a
sinecure, and left the library worse than they
found it. In the present custodian, M. Wecker-
lin, the right man has been found for the right
place. He has in particular, besides a general
methodical rearrangement and filling up of
lacunae, made a collection of more than 1500
musical portraits, and another of autographs,
equally precious ; and, finally, he has substi-
tuted a card catalogue for the former folio. The
veteran statesman Victor Schoelcher, a passion-
ate admirer of Handel and collector of his works,
has given his invaluable Handel library to that
of the Conservatoire. — Nation.

Abstracts of and extracts from reports.

Lynn (Mass.) P. L. (Total 31,182 v. ; added
1209 ; Issued 87,477 ! over- ^o,ooo periodicals
used.) “The Trustee.s, partly with the view of
gaining a little more room, have authorized the
removal from the shelves of some five hundred
volumes which had been superseded by other
and better editions ; or whose days of usefulness
had passed — to be disposed of by sale or ex-
change ; taking care to discard nothing of per-
manent value to the collection.”

A catalogue is to be printed to take the place
of 29 alphabetical lists now in use.

Middlesex Mechanics' Assoc. “The missing
books number 15; only one of any literary value.
The boys carry off the palm, for every book in
the juvenile alcove is in its place. This is a
remarkable record for a library in which every
one has access to every book and whose patron-
age is increasing. . . . The temperature of the
library room during the winter is unsatisfactory ;
the upper part is so warm, especially when the
gas is lighted, that the books are overdried ;
the lower floor is often uncomfortably cold and
sometimes not safely habitable. . . . The in-
crease in the number of persons consulting the
library, together with the decrease in the number
of books taken out, strengthen the opinion of the
librarian that the library is coming to be more
used for study and reference. More time is re-
quired to be spent on thoughtful books than
on the ordinary works of fiction, so that the
number of books bornjwed is in inverse ratio to
the degree of attention paid to the heavy litera-
ture. . . . Confusion arises in the minds of
some subscribers from the fact that cards are
used both in charging books and in the cata-
logue. . . . Our charging system is the same
as that used in the Athenaeum in Boston. . . .

“Within a few years, great attention has been
paid to the science of bibliography throughout
the civilized world. America has led the van in
this good work, and through her Library Asso-
ciation has done much toward utilizing the con-
tents of large libraries, which before had been
but cemeteries of hidden knowledge. Our own
library has felt the influence of this movement,
and is making up for what it may lack in funds
for the purchase of books by the energy of its
librarian in utilizing its material ; through her
indefatigable efforts, the rearranging, renum-
bering, and recataloguing of all the books have
been undertaken, on 'the principle that no library
should be a mere depository of literature, but a
means of conveying information. In co-opera-
tion with some of the librarians in different parts
of the country, the collection of current obituary
notices and the cataloguing of all periodicals
published since 1882 has been begun ; meetings
of the Library Association have been attended,
from which valuable suggestions for the details
of bibliothecal management have been derived ;
the leading reviews of current literature are
closely scanned and lists of the noticeable books
of the day are permanently kept, whether they
are admitted to the library or not ; the different

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\^May^ '83.

classes of patrons are recognized, their wants
are studied and sometimes anticipated ; there
are scrap-books, an index rerurn, and other de-
vices too numerous to mention ; in short, the
rear of the desk is a curiosity-shop of biblio-
graphic machinery, the accumulation of years of
industry. These labors have been rewarded by
an increase in the number of subscribers and in
the attendance of knowledge seekers.”

Natick {Mass.') Morse Institute. “Our refer-
ence-room is visited by increasing numbers for
reference, and especially by many of the youth
in our public schools. Not unfrequently is the
room nearly filled with these pupils seeking
information on specific topics.”

Newcastle-upon- Tyne. “ Your Committee have
resolved to publish next year supplementary
catalogues both of the adult and juvenile libra-
ries. These will be compiled on the lines of the
original catalogue, every entry under author,
title, subject, or cross-reference being in strict
alphabetical sequence, your Committee being now
assured that this form is that most appreciated
by the readers.”

St. Louis Ptib lie School L. “From the very
start of the library, a system of low-salaried
employees has been steadily adhered to. This
policy, however, while saving largely in expense,
has been found to detract considerably from its
usefulness. It has been found that nearly all
our force, more especially the most efficient ones,
after a brief stay in our employ, when their ser-
vices were of the greatest value, have found
more congenial employment elsewhere, at higher
salaries, and left the library, compelling the
managers to constantly recruit their force with
new and untrained assistants. The board have
recently determined to substitute a higher grade
of salaries, which it is hoped will permanently
retain our employees, and add to the efficiency
of all our Library work.”

“ A free institution was the ultimate intention of
the founders of the Public School Library. How-
ever useful one supported in whole or in part
by membership charges or fees of any kind
might be, they were aware that an entirely free
library was much more efficacious. If we com-
pare our own library, which is only partially
free, with those of other cities, much smaller in
population, which are entirely free, the advan-
tage of the latter, in the way of wider influence,
is so marked as to be seen at once. Take the
Free Library of San Francisco, now only four
years old, as an instance ; we find that during
the past year from a collection of 38,800 vol-
umes, 124,984 were read within the building and
194,112 were taken out for home study. No
mention is made of periodicals. So in Cincinnati,
from the Free Library 347,464 books and 325,973
periodicals were distributed during the current
year. Both of these cities have large and popu-
lar Mercantile Libraries in active operation. A
comparison with the public libraries of Chicago,
Boston, and other cities, will only further con-
firm the advantage of the free over the subscrip-
tion system.

“ The law controlling education in this city
contemplates facilities for the instruction of all
our youth, between 6 and 20 years of age. But
our present system of schools affords educational
facilities to children only under 13^ years of age.

“ At the above age our youth have to leave our
schools to enter upon the active duties of life ;
and therefore all between 13^ and 20 years
practically receive no advantage whatever from
them. It is not a question of desire, but one of
opportunity beyond their control, which pre-
vents this large class from the enjoyment of. our
present school privileges. Even if they could
be spared from the tasks of bread-winning and
sent to school, you would have to spend vast
sums of money in building school-houses, and
in paying teachers, before you could accommo-
date them ; for all your school-houses now built
are more than full. What then can be done to
occupy the space, now virtually unoccupied ?
You have your night schools, but they hardly
make a commencement.

“ A great free public library school is the only
practical solution of this important question.
Not a school with a corps of salaried teachers,
conducting recitations at fixed places during
fixed hours, available only to those who are so
fortunate as to have parents or guardians able
and willing to support them, but a library school,
with its thousands of silent but effective teach-
ers, the wisest and best of all countries and
all ages, uninterruptedly furnishing instruction
adapted to the requirements and tastes of every
individual, man, woman and child, without in-
terfering in the slightest degree with the occu-
pations necessary for self-support, and whose
study and recitation rooms shall be in every
home in the city. Such a school will take the
place of all our other schools, co-operating with
them, up to 13 or 14 years of age, and succeed-
ing to them all for the remaining 6 or 7 years of
our legal free school life. It is the only practical
method that can be devised under the circum-
stances that surround us.”

San Francisco Merc. L. A. “This lessening
interest in our noble institution, this decline in
our members which for years has been going
steadily on, are facts which cannot be ignored.

I can offer no adequate remedy. Indeed I am
obliged to confess that in my opinion the causes
lie very deep, are inherent in the social and
business condition of things, and that as a result
the libraries of our county, unendowed and de-
pendent, of which ours is a type, can have but
one fateful ending.”

Watertown (Mass.) P. L. ‘‘No teacher
could hope to satisfy the demand of her forty
pupils by a few minutes’ search through a cata-
logue of books, which she had never read ; an
occasional afternoon or evening among the books
at the library would be better ; but all must
understand that the combined labors are needed
of those whose business it is to know, classify,
and give out the books, and those whose busi-
ness it is to know the pupils, direct their studies,
and watch the effects.”

May, ’83.]

THE LIBRARY JOURNAL.

liibliogvafi).

Biiii.iocRAi'iiiE. (Pages 35-144 of Almanack
(ics traditions popidaires. Paris, 1882. S.)

Carrkl, F. Poingdestre. The book prohibitions
of the Church of Rome. (In Bibliographer,
March, 18S3.) 2 p.

Dklisi.e, Leopold. Les tres anciens mss. du
fonds Libri dans les collections d’Ashburnham
Place. (In Le Temps, 24 Feb., and repr. in
Polybiblion, March, Apr.; also in the Chro-
7iiqiie du jourti. gtfn. de rimprimerie, 10, 24
mars.)

“ Surles mss. autrefois soustraits par M. Libri
aux bibliotheques publiques de France et vendus
a lord Ashburnham.”

Friedlander & SoHN. Naturae novitates ; Bib-
liog. neuerErscheinungenaller Lander aufdem
Gebiete der Naturgeschichte u. d. exacten
Wissenschaften. 5. Jahrg. Berlin, 1883. 8®.

(24 nos @ 1 sheet.) 4 m. a‘ year.

Hewins, Miss C. M., comp. Books for the
young : a guide for parents and children.
N. Y., F. Leypoldt, 1883. 94 p. Tt. pap.,

25 c.

“ The result of years spent not only in trying to
guide the reading of children, but in actually
reading with them. The list is preceded by a
suggestive preface, followed by hints ‘ how to
teach the right use of books,’ a course of ‘ Eng-
lish and American history for children,’ and ‘a
symposium on books for children.’ As a guide
through the mass of the best existing juvenile
literature, the value of this little book to parents
and buyers of children’s books can hardly be'
overstated. According to Mr. Foster, it ‘ meets
most admirably the demand for carefully selected
lists, and contains also valuable and interesting
counsel.’ ”

Koner, \V. Uebersicht d. Nov. 1881-82 a. d.
Gebiete d. Geographie ersch. Werke, Auf
*satze, Karten u. Plane. (In the Zeitschr. d.
Ges. f. Erdktmde zu Berlin, 1882, pp. 463-607.)

The Libraries of Babylonia and Assyria. (In
Knowledge, Nov. 24, March 2.) i|-|-i^col.

Mourier, B\}(\.,and Deltour, F. Catalogue et
analyse des theses fran9aises et lalines admises
' par les facult6s des lettres, avec index et table
alphabetique des docteurs. Paris, Delalain,
1883. 8-1-32 p. 8®.

Munsell, Frank. Bibliography of Albany :
a catalogue of books and other publications
relating to the city and county of Albany,

N. Y. Albany, Joel Munsell’s Sons, 1883.
72+[2] p. O. cl., $2. (75 copies printed^)

Sumner, W. G. Courses of reading in special
subjects: Political economy. (In '1 he critic,
March 10, 17.) il-l-if col.

“A revision of a list published in 1880, in the
Lib. jtil. ”

ScHAKF, P:, and Brown, Francis. Courses of
reading on special subjects : Theology. (In
The critic, Jan. 20, 27, Feb. 3, 10, 17.) 7i
col.

Vismara. Ant. Bibliog. de Cesare Balbo. Mi-
lano, 1882. 43 p. 8*^.

From the Bibliograjia italiana, where Visma-
ra also published bibliografies of Cantu, Mas-
simo d’Azeglio, and F. D. Guerrazzi.

An Irving bibliography (2 p., but incomplete,
especially in the translations into foreign lan-
guages) is given in the Ciitic, March 31.

A hitherto unknown bibliography. We find in
Le livre, bib. mod., v. i., p. 90, in an article
on “Les bibliotheques publiques des Etats-
Unis,” the title of a work which no one on this
side of the water has ever seen: “Le dictionnaire
general des catalogues qu’a public la Boston
Athenaeum Library.’’

Mr. C. W. Sutton has prepared for the Man-
chester Literary Club his second annual list
of publications in that city and works by Man-
chester authors. This one, for 1882, records
375 works, and would have been fuller if all
the publishers had complied with his requests
for information.

Current Ainerican bibliography . By Dr. Daniel
G. Brinton. Extract from the minutes of
the meeting of the Numismatic and Antiq.

SocNof Philadelphia, April 5, 1883.

One of the most noteworthy of recent works in
this department is the A^otas para una bibliogi'ajia
de obras anonhnas i seudonima's sobre la historia,
la jeograjia, i la literatm'a de America ; por Diego
Barros Arana. Santiago de Chile, Imprenta
Nacional, 1882. 4", 171 p.

The author is an expert bibliographer, and he
traces to their authors 507 books on America,
published anonymously or under false names.
Their dates of issue vary all the way from 1493
to the Centennial Exhibition in 1876. Seiior
Arana adds very instructive and often copious
notes on the writers of these productions and on
their value or lack of value.

Of decided general interest is the priced sale
catalogue of books on America, issued this year by
Messrs. Robert Clarke &Co., of Cincinnati. It
contains 6589 titles on 266 double-column pages.
The head of that well-known house is himself an

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\May., ’83.

ardent student of American history, and in
this remarkable catalogue, unequalled by any
in its field hitherto published in the United
States, we cannot fail to recognize his skilful
handiwork.

In a narrower field, it may be mentioned that
that distinguished master of early American
bibliography, Mr. H: Harrisse, has added a most
complete bibliography of the subject to his re-
cently published Vie 'de Jean et Sebastian Cabot.-
Paris, E, Leroux. pp.

An agreeably written but not very accurate or
exhaustive sketch of books and authors on the
native languages of Spanish America has ap
peared from the pen of Dr. Felix C. Y. Sobron.
Los idiomas de la America la tin a ; estudios bio-
grafico-bibliograficos. Madrid, n. d. [1879?] 8'\
137 p. He gives some extended notices of
several rare volumes.

All interested in this subject know of the late
Mr. Joseph Sabin’s gigantic undertaking of a
complete American bibliography. A dictionary
of books relating to America from its discovery to
the present time. N. Y., J. Sabin’s Son, 24
Park Place. The ist part was issued in
1867, and the 80th, which is dated 1881, brings
it into the letter P, and up to the enormous
number of 58,796 titles. About one third of the
work had not seen the light at the time of the
diligent compiler’s death, but his son, in New
York, states in a recent letter that the whole ms.
is in his hands, and that prompt publication will
ensue, if sufficient financial encouragement is
offered. It is strongly recommended to all in-
terested in American history to aid Mr. Sabin
in completing at an early day his father’s praise-
worthy and laborious task.

Another work of great interest, which is in
process of publication, is a “ Bibliography of
North American linguistics,” prepared by Mr.
James C. Pilling, of the Bureau of Ethnology,
Washington, D. C. It is an author’s catalogue,
and will contain a list of all publications in or
relating to the languages of the Indians of North
America. It is the intention to make it as com-
plete and thorough as possible, and in the course
of his work Mr. Pilling has visited all the, larger
libraries of the East, and he has now started lor
the Pacific Coast with a like intention. The
Missions along the St. Lawrence and Ottawa
Rivers have also been visited by Mr. Pilling, and
full notes made of the manuscripts held at these
places. Full titles and collations will be given,
the ends of lines in titles being indicated by
cross-bars. (All editions are given also.) Five
hundred and twelve pages of the bibliography
are in type, covering “ Abbott” - ” Moran”
(2629 titles). New material is being constantly
gathered, and an appendix will be necessary,
and it is supposed that it will finally make 1000
pages of print.

As a model of this kind of bibliographical
work, although not of very recent issue, should
be named with special emphasis Julius Platz-
mann’s Verzeichniss einer Answahl ameri-
kanischer Grammatiken, IVorteidmcher, Katcchis-
?nen, ti. s. w. Lpz., 1876. 8", 38 p. It covers

only 38 pages and 97 titles, but for critical col-
lation and instructive notes it is a sample of
just what such works should be.

Of- works in this branch entirely in manuscript,
the speaker mentioned that he had in his pos-
session two ; the one a very extensive “ Biblio-
theca mexicana, ” compiled by the late Dr. C. H.
Berendt, about 1865-70 ; the second a catalogue
raisonnde, prepared by himself, of the linguistic
and historical collection, chiefly relating to
Central America, left by Dr. Berendt at the time
of his death. Either of these mss. will be at the
service of any scholar who would care to visit
the speaker’s residence to consult them there.

Catalogs and cataloging.

Brooklyn Library. Bulletin no. 17, Sept.,

1882, to March, 1883. n.d. 3i-l-[i]p. 1. 8*^.

This thick bulletin records the first purchases
with the income of the new endowment funds.
The total no. of volumes is now 74,704.

Cornfll Univ. The library, vol. i, no. 5, n.p.,

Apr., 1883. 141-180 p. 1. O.

Contains a note by W; H. Carpenter on a
ms. protocol of the trial for witchcraft of Dr.
Dietrich Flade of Trier, executed 1589 (the ms.
is to be published): Additions ; a contin. of List
of works on mathematics.

Fall River (Mass.) P. L. Catalogue. Fall

River, 1882. i5 + [i] + 933 P- 1. O.

The improvements in cataloguing during the
last fifteen years have been many and well
marked. In these the aim has been to render
the resources of libraries more available, by fur-
nishing a convenient clue to the literature of a
given subject, and to simplify the arrangement
with a view primarily to the wants of the ordi-
nary public in their ordinary reading, rather than
of the learned man in his specialty. In old times
nothing was expected of a catalogue but to fur-
nish an accurate inventory of a library’s treas-
ures, so arranged that the librarian at least
might easily ascertain whether or no the library
possessed any desired work. A subject-index
such as that of the Astor I^ibrary Catalogue was
a not unusual, but clumsy addition, of real use,
however, in finding a book the author of which
was forgotten, or, if one had the patience to fol-
low out the numerous references, in discoveririg
what a library contained on a particular sub-
ject.

A great improvement over this is the fully
developed subject catalogue in its many useful
forms, and a still further advance — valuable es-
pecially for a popular library — is the practice of
inserting notes under the subject headings to
guide the reader in his choice of books and to
direct him to other sources of information.

The only catalogues in which this has been
done to any extent are the Historical Fiction
and Biography Catalogues of the Boston Public
Library (the first of their kind) and the Cata-
logues of the Brooklyn and Quincy libraries.
The new catalogue of the Fall River Public

May, ’S3.]

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Library follows out the same line of work as
these.

It is a larfje, hantlsome volume of over 900
pages, two columns to a page. The print is
excellently clear, the separate entries are brought
out plainly by full-faced letters, the notes, though
in small type, are well leaded and easy to read.
In fact the whole appearance is attractive a
point of real importance in encouraging those
who consult it. It is one of the most generous
of catalogues in explaining the nature of its
books by detailed tables of contents, in re-
peating itself so as to save the reader the an-
noyance of constant reference back and forth,
and in entering its books in a variety of ways to
insure their being found. Indeed, it is fuller
than most libraries could alTord to make their
catalogues. It is considerably more than three
times as large as the Quincy Catalogue, while
in number of volumes the library is two and a
half times larger than the Quincy Library.

Each book has a full author entry, one or
more (frequently several) shorter subject en-
tries, and in most cases a title entry under first
or principal word, when this is different from the
subject word. Under Drama and Fiction both
author and title entries are repeated, so that
every book in these classes is entered four times.
Tables of contents are very freely given, and are
arranged either by volumes or alphabetically by
subjects, as is most convenient in each case. The
Smithsonian contributions and collections oc-
cupy three pages, Sumner’s Works three pages,
the Harleian Miscellany almost four. Lodge’s
Portraits two. In the last and in many similar
cases where the contents consist of men’s
names, the occupation or profession, with dates
of birth and death, is added to each. Several of
these seem to be taken from the Boston cata-
logues, a use which one is glad to see made by
one library of work done by another, when it is
remembered how much time is unavoidably,
spent in doing again what has been done a thou-
sand times already.

The notes too, which are, perhaps, the most
valuable feature of the catalogue, follow, in many
cases, quite closely in the line of the Boston or
Quincy notes, usually with considerable pruning
and simplification compared with the former.
They are generally not learned, but clear,
straightforward, concise, and always helpful,
especially for the class of readers for whom they
are intended.

By far the larger part are devoted to history
and biography ; there are very few in regard
to the various sciences, yet a good deal
of help might be given in this way here
too. Space is saved in many cases by com-
bining in a note a number of references to
periodicals which, in the Quincy catalogue, for
instance, have each a separate entry. Some notes
go into more detiil than could fairly be expected,
as, for instance, under Ossoli (Margaret Fuller)
reference is made among others to a statement
in Greeley’s Recollection, and to a bit of satire
in Lowell’s Fable for critics. It does not ap-
appear, however, that the Fable for critics is re-

ferred to under the other authors who are men-
tioned in it.

Much is done toward bringing all the resources
of the library into use by referring to periodi-
cals, especially in the case of serial stories,
whereby another copy of the book is virtually
added to the library. I’hG Smithsonian Publica-
tions are made useful by entering the separate
papers under both author and subject, and on
almost every page among biographical notes will
be found references to the “ Biographies of emi-
nent men,” “ Lodge’s Portraits,” and other simi-
lar collections. Under Scott a long note is in-
serted from the Boston catalogue, giving his
novels in the chronological order of their sub-
jects, with brief statement of the period each
illustrates .

A few words should be said on the system of
the catalogue. It occupies one of the innumer-
able intermediate positions between the thorough-
going dictionary catalogue and the classed cata-
logue. Authors, titles, and subjects are in-
cluded in one general alphabet. The principle
of entering a book under the most specific sub-
ject is followed in many cases, but in others
special subjects are brought together under gen-
eral. For example. Astronomy. includes, besides
general works, books on Comets, the Earth,
Eclipses, Jupiter, Meteoric phenomena. Moon,
Nebulae, etc., down to Telescope, Uranus, and
Venus. Meteorology, in like manner, includes
Atmosphere, Aurora, Barometers, Climatology,
Clouds. Earthquakes and volcanoes. Observa-
tions, Rain and snow. Storms, Anemometer,
Thunder and lightning. Botany, Zoology, and
Geology, though including more than the pure-
ly general works, are not divided, probably be-
cause they have few titles, and in general the
compilers seem to have been cautious of divid-
ing their subjects into groups, unless substan-
tial advantage was to be gained. Under Botany
are included books on trees, ferns, orchids, etc.,
which are entered again in the main alphabet
under Trees, Ferns, and Orchids.

Biographies and works of history, travel, etc.,
are entered under the name of the subjects or of
the country directly, not under Biography or
Countries, as in the Brooklyn catalogue. The
class Essays is a useful one and well managed.
Rather more than two pages of titles are given,
and at the end a list of selected authors is added,
divided into classes : aesthetic, biographical,
critical, scientific, etc., “for study or reading in
the respective lines indicated.” Dictionaries are
divided into thirty-three classes, and include ap-
parently everything in that form irrespective of
its subject. We find here Savage’s Genealogi-
cal dictionary, but do not find it under Geneal-
ogy. Another slip of the same kind is the
omission of Goethe’s name under Drama,
though Moliereand Corneille both appear there.

Some other things of the same kind might be
pointed out, but it is unnecessary to dwell on
them. Such oversights every cataloguer knows
are inevitable, and it would appear from a hasty
examination that the Fall River catalogue has
comparatively few. A number of typographical

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errors, however, are noticeable, besides the two
pages of corrections placed at the beginning of
the volume.

It is stated in the prefatory note that “ having
outlined their plan for a classified catalogue, the
trustees secured the services of Mr. Frederick
B. Perkins to arrange the classification, and to
prepare the necessary notes,” and that “the de-
tails of the work were committed to the charge
of Mr. George W. Rankin [Asst. Libr.], who
has also prepared many of the notes, and has
had the entire charge of the final revision of the
manuscript.” Both gentlemen are to be con-
gratulated upon having produced a thoroughly
convenient and complete catalogue, which the
readers of Fall River will find to add greatly to
the usefulness of their own collection, and which
will be a valuable addition to the working ap-
paratus of every other public library.

W. C. Lane.

Kelchner, Dr. Ernst. Die Marienthaler
Drucke der Stadt-Bibliothek zu Frankfurt am
Main, bibliographisch beschrieben. Frankfurt
am Main, Baer & Co., 1S83. 10 p. F. With

5 plates. 5 m.

Melbourne P. L. List of newspapers, maga-
zines, publications of learned societies, serials,
and government publications currently re-
ceived. Melbourne, 1882. 26 p. 8°.

Prussia, K. Ministertum der offentlichen
Arbeiten. Katalog der Bibliothek. Berlin, C.
Heymann, 1882. 8-I-259 p. 8*^. 8 m.

Plymouth Free P. L. W. H. H. Wright, the
librarian, says : “ The Index-catalogue of the

Lending Department consists of 248 pages,
containing 25,000 entries. My personal canvass
for advertisements was most encouraging, as I
succeeded in obtaining, principally from our
local traders, 80 advertisements. The sales with
the advertisements have produced over ;^ioo,
so that we may hope the loss on this publication
will be little, if any.”

I NOTICE that best authorities (Boston Pub.,
Ath., Howard, and Ly. Cong.) disagree as to
alfabetization of De Amicis (A or D?), Ten
Brink (T or B?), etc. Will Lib. j. mention
authority by which I may be guided ? W.M.G.

Cutter s rtiles (p. 21, § 17) : ” Put surnames
preceded by prefixes : a. In French ... b.
In English ... c. In all other languages under
the name following the prefix.” Therefore
Amicis, — de. Brink, — ten. With this the A.L. A.
rules agree {lAb. jnl., 3 : 13).

Full Names : Raymond Landon Bridgman
(Concord lectures on philosophy) ; James Jones
Levick (George Smith, M.D.) ; Moses Aaron
Dropsie (Translation of F'erdinand Mackeldey’s
Hand-book of the Roman law) ; William Har-
rison Lowdermilk (History of Cumberland) ;
Robert Templeman Craighill (The Virginia
“ peerage ”) ; John Henry Brown (The rambler’s

calendar) ; Dexter Arnoll Hawkins (Education
the need of the South) ; Julia Henrietta Louisa
De Vaynes (The Kentish garland) ; G; Dudley
Wildes (An address memorial of A. H. Vinton,
E. A. Washburn, etc.).

Indexes.

[Griswold, W. M ] Q. P. indexes, no. 13.

The Q. P. Index annual for 1882. Bangor,

Me., Q. P. Index, 1883. 51 p. O.

Includes 22 periodicals instead of 9 as last
year. Opens with the ‘‘ Necrology of 1882,”
giving obituaries of The Penn monthly and of
Potter s magazine, furnished by the editors. Fol-
lowing is “ Names of dubious authors” — dubi-
ous, be it understood, not morally or socially,
but onomastically ; in other words, it is a list of
authors of dubious name. A novelty in this list
is the references to bibliografies, similar to Mr.
Carr’s {Lib.jnl., 8 ; 27-32) ; another new feature
is marking the references of the obituary notices
by a f. “ Mr. Griswold can now survey no less
than twelve of his indexes, each one of which is
an apostle of the higher learning.” — Nation.

Index to the Popular science monthly, 20 v.,

1872-82, and 3 V. of Supplement. N. Y.,

Appleton, 1883. 4-1-169 p. O. cl., $1.

An index of authors and titles. ” Where the
title did not sufficiently indicate the subject-
matter of the article, a clearer one has been sub-
stituted.”

“ The index embraces the titles of the articles
as they appeared in the several departments of
the magazine. This has been thought sufficient,
but it may be seriously questione(^ whether sub-
jects and names mentioned in articles ought not
to have been recorded. Ten years makes a long
book-shelf, and people vvho keep files of the
monthly may demand an index which gives Latin
and colloquial names for animals, plants, and
minerals, theories stated and theories alluded to,
names of savants quoted, and all the other mi-
nutiiE which is so laborious to sift into an index,
but which is of such use when one comes to refer
to a scientific periodical.” — N. Y. Times, A^r. 16.

The interchanCxE. Vol. T, no. i. Phila., Apr.

1883. 9 p. 1. O. $i a year.

Gives table of contents of 46 periodicals.
Promises that ” the subject contents (omitting
Fiction and Poetry) of current magazines and
reviews under titles of the periodicals will be re-
arranged in an index alphabetically at the end of
the volume.” Does this mean that the subjects
in a periodical are to be arranged by itself, mak-
ing 46 or more separate subject alfabets ?

Prof. E. Roth, 1135 Pine St., Phila., has un-
dertaken the task to make a complete index
to Litlell' s living age. Subscriptions will be
received at $3 till June 15, after which date the
price will be $4. Numbers i and 2, 16 pages
each, forming part of the division “ Biography”
(Abbott — James), and containing about 3000
separate entries, are ready for delivery.

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Rkvikwinc; in \he Academy Ktv. T: Twining’s
“ Recreations of a country clergyman,” Mr. C: J.
Robinson says, “We have but one fault to find
with the editor. He absolutely prints these
words of his great uncle, ‘ I hate a book without
an index. I low perpetually have I been plagued
with hunting for something I had read and liked,
but knew not where to find, and could not find
at all, though certain of its being somewhere in
the book ! ’ and yet sends into the world this
pleasant collection of shrewd remarks and clever
criticisms with nothing more than a bare table
of contents.

The Index Society’s 4th annual report pre-
sents a hiodest account of work done ; but is
full of plans and hopes for the future, if only the
society can get the means to work with. The
annual index of obituaries is to be continued in
a separate volume. With the report comes a
three-page list of indexless books in English his-
tory and biography, and a request that members
would return the list to the secretary after mark-
ing which books they wish most to see indexed,
which they consider unimportant, and what ones
not on the list they would like to see added.

Slnoiujms anil ^sculrongms.

Foley, H: Records of the English Province of
the Society of Jesus, London, 1877-82. 7 v.

80.

Part 2 of vol. 7 contains a catalogue of nearly
900 aliases (assumed for the sake of protection),
with the real family names.

Halkett, S:, and Laing, J: Dictionary of
the anonymous and pseudonymous literature
of Great Britain. Vol. 2 [F-N], Edin.,

W: Paterson, 1883. col. 871-1762 1. O.
Librarians will welcome this carefully pre-
pared and handsomely printed volume, and long
for the next one. As showing the effort of the
editor to insert the latest inlormation, we notice
a reference to the last volume of the Library
journal.

Angns Graeme, a Scottish novel, is by Miss
Veitch. — Chicago Herald.

A daughter of the Philistines (No name
series) is attributed by the TV. V. Times, to Prof.
H. H. Boyesen, of Columbia College.

The dove and the eagle (Boston, 1851, D.)

was by G: Lunt.

Fanchette, the Round-Robin novel, is at-
tributed to Mr. J: Esten Cooke. If it be really
the work of the Virginian writer, he has cer-
tainly made a total change in his literary style.
— Tribune.

Marked “ In haste j' a story, N. Y., 1883, is by
Blanche Roosevelt.

My watch below, yarns by a seafarer, 2d ed.,
London, 1883, is by Clark Russell. — Acad.

Passages from the life and "writings of Wni.
Penn, recently published, was compiled by T:
Pym Cope. lie has also published “Views of
Christian doctrine by Barclay,” and “ Passages,
etc., from the writings of George Fox.” — W. C.
Lane.

The stars and the earth. — Ascribed to Felix
Eberty. What authority is there for this?

A trimester in France and Swisserland, 1821,
was by Rev. Stephen Weston. — Notes and q., Dec.
30, p. 546.

Le baron Stock, ps. of Maria Letizia Bonaparte,
afterward de Solms, then Ratazzi, and now de
Rute, as editor of Les matinees espagnoles,
“ revue internationale europeenne,” published
in French at Madrid. — L' illustration.

Bolton Rowe (Z. /, 8 : 40, 21). — I can’t giv
authority, but hav noted Clement Scott as
having 3 sudonyms : Bolton Rowe, Saville, and
Almaviva.— iV; H. W.

Cellarius, ps. of Rev. T: Welbank Fowle, in “A
new analogy between revealed religion and the
course and constitution of nature,” 1881. — Ath.

Gerald Grant, i.e. Gertrude Grant, author of
“ The Old Cross Quarry” and several other nov-
els and stories and mag. articles, died not
long sins at Goritz, Austria. {Good lit., 4 : 142,
15.)— Z^.- H. W.

Nella, etc. “Mr. Bullen, in his [Collection
of old English plays, v. 2] p. 425, says, with re-
gard to one of these plays. ‘ On the last leaf is
written “ Nella la B,” Some name is pos-

sibly concealed under these enigmatic letters ;
but the riddle would defy an CEdipus.’ There
is a name concealed, but it hardly requires an
CEdipus to discover it. La B. is the contraction
for La Buffa, one of the characters in the play ;
and the enigmatic letters, simply substituting
their names for the letters themselves, read thus,

‘ Nella fi-delta fi ni-ro la buffa,’ which is good
enough Italian for an anagram meaning ‘ I will
end trifling in fidelity.’ But ‘Nella fedelita
{or fidelita) finiro la B.’ transposed gives us ‘ II
fabro, Natanielli* {or Natanielle) Field,’ i.e.,

‘ Nathaniel Field the author,’ I have not read
the play, but the extracts given by Mr. Bullen
are quite consistent with the supposition that it
is one of Field’s lost works.” — F. G. Fleay, in
Ath.

Octavia Hensel, ps. of Miss Mary Alice Seymour
in “ Life and letters of Gottschalk. ” Boston,
1870, 160.— Y. B. N.

P. Bell, ps. of Paul Belief, editor of Le maga-
zine, “ un journal de bibliographic et de repro-
ductions.”

Sherwood Bonner, ps. of Mrs. Kate Sherwood
Bonner McDowell, in “ Dialect tales,” N. Y.,
Harpers, 1883.

* “ If we omit one I (as allowed by anagram law) we get
the correct form, Nataniele.”

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?iitetature for ti)e S^oung.

Edited hy Miss C. M. Hewins, Librarian of
Hartford Library Association.

Notes and suggestions, /nun vartotis sources, on read-
ing and the best use 0/ books, are to be included in this
department .

Ai.den, W : L. The cruise of the Canoe Club.
N. Y., Harper, sq. S. -|i.

Sequel to “ The moral pirates,” and “ The cruise of the
Ghost.” Relates the adventures of four boys on a canoe
cruise across Lake Memphreniagog, Vermont, and down the
Magog, St. K rancis, and St Lawrence Rivers ; has much in-
formation on different kinds of canoes and their manage-
ment.

Creighton, L. Stories from English history.
N. Y., Whittaker, sq. S. $1.

“ Mis. Creighton tells her stories — such as those of the
death of Bede ancl of Drake’s voyage — in the simple, un.if-
fected way which is the best suited for her subject, and she
has generally succeeded in fidfilling her promise of extract-
ing them from chronicles or weaving them together from
well-authenticated historical facts.” — Academy.

Foster, W: E. Libraries ancl readers. Ley-
poldt. S. 50 c,

” Mr. Foster’s discourses are the outgrowth of his experi-
ence in meeting the needs of the actual, and enlisting the
interest of the natural, patrons of his library. No one, with
limited resources, has done more to tui'ii to account the col-
lection under his charge, or shown greater activity and in-
genuity in devising ways and means to stimulate reading,
study, and research, and guide them in the proper direc-
tion. His_ chapters are valuable as exhibiting phase after
phase of his perception of the conditions under which public
libraries are now used, and found to be of service, by widely
differing classes of the community. 'I’hey are all sound,
practical, and suggestive, and will benefit parents, their
elder children, and the author’s fellow-librarians about
equally. They treat of the following topics : Right read-
ing ; Correction of aimless reading ; Specializing of read-
ing ; ‘ Current literature,’ and ‘ Standard literature Se-
curing the interest of a community ; Wh.it may be done at
home ; How to use a library ; Books and articles on read-
ing.”— Nation.

Green, S; S., comp. Libraries and schools;
papers selected by S: S. Green. N. Y., Ley-
poldt. S. 50 c.

‘‘ Bears wholly upon the best method of making the pub-
lic library a component part of the common-school system.
It opens with Mr. C. F. Adams, jr.’s frank addre.ss to the
Quincy teachers in 1876, and notably contains, besides, a
full account by Mr. Green of his success in Worcester in es-
tablishing the coveted alliance, and two papers by Mr.
Foster upon the general theme. Some of li e methoils ad-
vocated or proposed by the several writers itivite criticism,
but librarians and teachers everywhere w«ho consult thi.-.
little volume will close it with a sense of indebtedness.
Reference is made in the last chapter to the library gathered
for a Providence grammar school. The catalogue already
mentioned shows that there is, as there should be, a pupils’
and a teachers’ collection, the former being regarded as a
sort of ‘branch’ of the public library, with the advantage
of the most careful censorship m its formation. I’he dis-
cipline which it is made to yield to the pupils is set forth on
pp. 120-123 of ‘ Libraries and schools,’ and no one can read
Principal Sawin’s scheme without feeling that it embodies
a new and fruitful idea.” — Nation.

Harteliu.s, T. J., J/. D. Home gymnastics for
the preservation and restoration of health in
children and young and old people of both
sexes ; with a short method of acquiring the
art of swimming ; tr. and adapted from the
Swedish by C. Ldfving. Phil., Lippincott.
S, 60 c.

” The purpose of this book is to call the attention of peo-
ple in general to the great importance of bodily exercise for
the preservation of health, and to serve as a simple guide

that will enable them to benefit themselves by the perform-
ance of well-tested movements. Chapter 2 gives some gen-
eral observations on the performance of movements ; 3, De-
scription of particular forms of movements and their effects ;
4, Application of movements for specific purpo.ses.” — Pub-
lishers' 'iveekly.

Marshall, Emma. Dayspring : a story of the
time of William Tyndale, reformer, scholar,
and martyr. N. Y., Carter. D. $1.50.

‘‘ An historical tale, and an interesting one. Much of the
material imagination has had to furnish, but enough is
known of the doughty Christian warrior, William Tyn-
dale, who IS the hero of the tale, to constitute a strong
thread of actual biography on which to string the beads
of fancy, and give the whole the pleasing aspect of veri-
similitude.”

Nasmyth, Ja. James Nasmyth, engineer : an
autobiography ; ed. by S: Smiles. N. Y.,
Harper. 1883. Q. (Harper’s Franklin sq. lib.
no. 299.) pap., 20 c. ; cl.. $1.50.

An excellent book fur a boy with a taste for machinery.
(See also note in last issue, p. 60.)

Newell, W; Wells, ed. Games and songs of
-American children, collected and compared by
W: Wells Newell. N. Y., Harper, sq. O.
$1.50.

“This volume has a double value. It will intere.st and
instruct the older readers. It will recall the games of
their own childhood and make them young again. It will
sliow them the parallels in games coming from different
latitudes and even by different nationalities. It will ex-
hibit to them the comparative science of childhood games
— for even games have a science. It will also furnish to the
young children a storehouse of suggestion for sports. It is
just the book for examination before a children’s party or
by the mother who is so fortunate as to have under her
care a group of little children ; affording mateiial for their
self -amusement for many a romp, if it is used with a due re-
gard to economy.”— union.

Van Dyke, J. C. Books, and how to use
them : some hints to readers and students.
N. Y., Fords, Howard Hulbert. D. $1.

” This attractive little volume is intended to meet the de-
mand for a book on books that shall tell clearly, concisely,
and practically the advantages of reading, the best ways
and methods of reading, the best places and times for read-
ing, the best classes of books to read, and the manner in
which best to get access to the knowledge contained in
books housed up within the walls of a pubiic library. The
book is one to be recommended to every reader, particularly
young readers and college students, for whom it was espe-
cially designed and whom it cannot fail to benefit, as it re-
cords the experience of one who has been a reader for many
years, and has learned by expeiience that which he would
teach others by precept. List of reference-books in appen-
dix.”— Publishers' iveekly.

Witt, C. Classic tnylhology ; a translation,
with the author’s sanction, of Prof. C. Witt’s
GriechiscJie Goiter tind Ileldeiisgeichichten, by
Frances Younghusband ; with a preface by
Arthur Sidgwick ; supplemented with a glos-
sary of etymologies and related myths. N. Y.,
Holt. D. $1.25.

The Greek tales of gods and heroes are told in a simple
and condensed form, without the vividness and fancifulness
of Hawlhorne’s or Kingsley’s versions. ITe book, how-
ever, includes many more myths than theirs, and is a useful
introduction to the study of comparative mythology.

Yonge, Charlotte M. Pickle and his page-boy ;
or, unlooked for : a story. N. Y., E. P. Dut-
ton cS: Co., 1883. 6 -}- 161 p. I il. T. cl., Co c.

‘‘ A pretty little story with a moral, about the temptations
of a little page, who was saved from disobeying his mistress
by the faithful love of his chaige, ‘Pickle,’ a handsome
Skye terrier.” — Publishers' iveekly.

Yonge, Charlotte M. Stray pearls : memoirs
of Margaret de Ribaumont, Viscountess of

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Bellaise. N. Y., Macmillan. D. $1.50.

Harper’s Franklin sq. lib., no. 305, Q. pap.,

15 c.

“ Few writers of historical romance have had the courajie
to do what Miss Yonge does in her present story, and pre-
face their fiction with a succinct account of the history on
which it is strung. Certainly no one has done it so well.
'I'he short sketch, occupying not more than ten pages, in
which the origin and circumstances of the ‘ Fronde ’ are
set foitli in ‘outline like a map,’ is really an admirable
piece itf summarized history 'I'he story itsell is one of Miss
Yonge’s happiest efforts in this line.” — AtherKEunt.

Azotes and sug^i'estions.

Books in Scik^oi..— One of the greatest wants
of country schools, and for that matter city
schools, too, is a good library. Leaving out of
the question works of biography, history, travel,
fiction, and poetry, even reference-books are
wanting. And whatever is done to supply the ,
defect, must be almost entirely the work of the
teacher. One plan which can anywhere be tried
with success may be called the mutual school
library. The teacher prepares half or quarter
sheets of paper and places one in the hands of a
pupil from each family. The pupil places his
name at the head of the slip of paper, carries it
home, and writes on it the titles of all the books
which he can find. This work would pay if it
caused the pupil to do no more than to examine
the books about the house, some of which may
have been for years stored away in some dusty
closet. The slips are returned to the teacher
and he prepares them for future use. If he is
not familiar with the contents of any book re-
ported, he should make himself so ; if he has no
other means of doing so, he may ask the pupil
to bring him an abstract of its contents. Then
in assigning subjects for investigation he can, by
consulting his lists, give each pupil that subject
upon which he can find information at home.
For instance the history class is studying the
period of Clay, Calhoun, and Webster ; the
meagre text-book gives none of the interesting
details of their lives, but on consulting his lists
the teacher sees that one pupil reports a life of
Clay, another of Calhoun, and a third of Webster.
A certain day in the week he lays aside tne regu-
lar text-book lesson and has reports upon the
subjects which have been previously assigned and
prepared by the pupils. Each one has obtained
information on his subject at home, and he is
now ready to report, either verbally or in the form
of a written essay, or in any other manner which
the teacher rnay have directed. — Tennessee
yonrna I of edticn Hon .

A Child’s Library. — The editor, and not Mr.
Higginson, is responsible for a criticism of
Dickens’ Child’s history and the Prudy books, at
the end of his list in the last number.

Newspapers. — The newspapers this spring
have brought a remarkable number of stories of
runaway boys who had been fired by yellow
colored novels with a desire to see the James
boys and go them somewhat better, so to speak.
It is the same report every time. The boy reads
these books on the sly, steals what he can from
his parents, and leaves a home to take his chance
in the great world where he soon learns what

it is to be homeless. As a rule no sight of his
life is more welcome than that of the policeman
who soon or late arrives on the scene and car-
ries him back in disgrace, to be sure, but, after
all, rescued. People talk, and rightly, of the
pernicious influence of yellow-covered literature
upon the boys. It leads to all this runaway
nonsense, to the buying of pistols, the thefts of
money, and the delusions of highway heroism
that end in trampism. But it is in the yellow-
covered dime novel prints that the boys get
these false ideas ; and fortunately there is also
in print, and cheaper than the dime novel, a
very powerful counter-agent to all this mislead-
ing foolishness. That counter-agent is the
newspaper. It is in its pages that the boy reads
the fate of these absurd expeditions. There day
after day he will find the story of the foolish,
broken-down little fellow, who has been led
away by the dime novel and led home again by
the policeman. Such cold truth chills the
romantic spirit as no mere reasoning and no
arbitrary punishment could chill it. It is a
warning of the utmost significance. Judging by
the extent to which these runaway expeditions
are now being frustrated, we take it that a great
many boys are growing up without reading the
daily newspapers. They read the weekly story
papers, the demoralizing and absurd romances,
but they do not read the daily newspaper. They
should be made to. It is a marvellous educator.
So much information and so much useful sugges-
tion are found nowhere else, and sound lessons
of life lie back of many of the items of news
that are not in themselves choice reading. But
the newspaper itself, for its presentation of cur-
rent history, its picture of the life of the day, its
lessons of history and geography, and all its
vast fund of information, is an unequalled in-
structor. Set your boy to reading that every
day, and if he has the misfortune afterward to
take up the flash stories, he will have read enough
sense to realize that the nonsense of the yellov/
covers will not do for him to carry into life.
He may pine for scalps and buffaloes, but he
will take it out in pining, and will be found at
home and regular in his attendance at the three
meals of the day. — Hartford Conran t.

Newspapers in School. — Newspapers may
be made useful in the school-room in various
ways : fiist, if all or many of the pupils read the
same paper it may be used as supplementary
reading matter in place of the text-book which
the pupils are compelled to read and re-read un-
til the lessons have become dry and uninterest-
ing. The teacher can make arrangements with
the editor in many cases to publish a column
each week especially intended for the school-
room. Again, a committee or the teacher may
make on the black-board a bulletin of notable
events, which cannot fail to interest the pupils in
current history and to teach them many geograph-
ical facts as to the location of cities, noted
places, summer resorts, etc., the routes and
names of the railroad, canal, steamship, cable,
and telegraph lines ; and if the teacher will give
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[May, ’83.

mental changes, he can explain to the pupils the
practical part of that very important study, civil
government. The workings of district, municipal,
county. State, and National governments, the
organization of the courts from county jus-
tice to United States Supreme Court, may all re-
ceive attention, and in such a manner that the
pupils will obtain an accurate knowledge of the
machinery of the government under which they
live, and they will then be better prepared to
discharge the duties of citizenship. By pro-
curing a suitable book for the purpose, such as
State or Government report, the whole school
may be interested in preparing a scrap book. If
it is desired to classify the scraps, a certain part
may be devoted to noted Americans, famous
places, Englishmen, temperance, tariff, poetry,
anecdote, etc. The little folks may be pleas-
antly enlisted in the work by offering them a
scrap-book for pictures, which they can cut from
advertisements, illustrated papers, etc.. In fact,
the teacher in a country school can do nothing
better to supply the cravings of first, second, and
third reader pupils for moral, healthy, instruct-
ive, and interesting reading than to subscribe
for such a juvenile paper as Harper's Young
people. It can be placed in their hands at
school, and they can have the privilege of carry-
ing it home on certain days of the week. — Ten-
nessee Journal of education.

Simplicity Appealing to Imagination. —
The fact is that children love toys and books
which leave something to the imagination, and
which are not destroyed by a good deal of rough
usage. They feel the splendor of the little ladies
who fill their picture-books to be oppressive, and
their quaint, resthetic grace appeals to no answer-
ing sense of sympathy. There is nothing fresh to
be found in them by frequent study except cor-
rectness of drawing, which they are unable to
perceive, and prettiness of design, which they
are unable to appreciate. This is a proof that
these numerous and beautiful books leave a
want still unsupplied that they have not destroy-
ed, nor even diminished, the popularity of such a
production as “ Shock-headed Peter.” This was
originally a German work, and so little pains have
the translators taken with the realism of the illus-
trations that the grave of the little boy who falls a
martyr to his obstinacy about soup, and who has
always been called Augustus in the English ver-
sion, is still inscribed Caspar, like that of the
German original, while the tureen which stands
as a melancholy monument beside the tomb is
marked “ Suppe.” It is difficult to conceive
anything more hideous than the colored cuts
which ornament this old nursery favorite, but
we believe any attempt to replace the familiar
illustrations with lithographs of modern pretti-
ness would be most deeply resented by its little
readers. The cats, whose unavailing remon-
strances cannot save Harriet from her untimely
fate, may be like no animals on earth, but their
streaming eyes, “ which made a little pond at
last,” and their tails sympathetically tied up with
crape, are far more personally attractive to the
infant mind than grace of form, or the most

charming reproduction of furriness. In short,
they possess one qualification in which modern
nursery tales are conspicuously deficient— name-
ly, humor of a kind simple and obvious enough
to be understood by children. Perhaps as the
world grows older in each succeeding generation
childhood tends to become shorter, and maturity
to advance a greater distance from it ; certainly
writers for children to-day have lost the direct-
ness and simplicity which gave the world such
immortal treasures as the stories of ” Jack the gi-
ant killer,” “Red riding hood,” and “Cinder-
ella.” Delightful as is ‘‘ Alice in Wonderland,”
its wit can only be appreciated by adult readers,
and even in illustrations the case is still the same.
Nothing can be more humorous, for instance, than
Mr. Caldecott’s self-complacent dog in “The
house that Jack built,” sitting in serene uncon-
sciousness of the approach of the cow with the
crumpled horn ; but it is a humor too subtle
for the perception of a child, and the same may
be said of many of the best points in Mr. Calde-
cott’s illustrations.—- Globe.

Taste Must Be Led. — What were the chief
elements of the children’s library a half century
ago? Books didactic, such as the “Elements
of morality,” translated from the German by
Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Edgeworth’s “ Pa-
rents’ assistant” and Mrs. Barbauld’s “Even-
ings at home or books highly colored and ro-
mantic, as “ Robinson Crusoe ” and its manifold
imitations, “Gulliver’s travels” and the “Ara-
bian nights.” With a few selections like these
the child’s mind was fed and formed. Contrast-
ing the opportunities given then for a choice of
children’s books to the wide range of to-day we
might at first suppose that the book world of the
present was almost made for children, such de-
lightful and successful efforts have been made by
the best modern writers in young people’s litera-
ture. It would seem as if these worthy produc-
tions, made attractive as they are by the artist’s
pencil as well as by the author’s pen, should be
able to drive out the pernicious and poisonous
publications that ruin the literary taste and pol
lute the morals. If this cannot be done by the
mere power of being it should be done by acting.
Neither parents nor library trustees demand the
modern literature of the lowered standard for the
children, but it is not enough not to demand ;
the child’s taste must be led and directed. If the
directors of every library should prepare a “ list
of books recommended to the pupils of the public
schools for reference in their studies and for gen-
eral reading,” as has been done in one or two
instances, and if every parent should take enough
trouble and enough interest to assist children in
selecting books from that list, a great danger
would be guarded against, and the vast amount
of moral and intellectual trash that is published
each year would be kept at least from the chil-
dren.— Boston Journal.

Work and Play. — The following extracts are
from S. C. Hall’s “ Retrospect of a long life,”
just published by Appleton :

‘‘ There are plenty of children’s books, but

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few books for children. The ‘ cause why ’ is
easy of explanation. The little ones are to be
treated as men and women before they have en-
tered their teens. With not many exceptions,
the volumes prepared expressly for them — in
art as well as in literature— should be prefaced
by a motto-line from the ‘ Night thoughts ’ :

‘ Imagination’s airy wing repress ! ’

And perhaps there are more boys and girls,
under ten, who could take respectable rank at a
competitive examination than there are who
could tell us ‘ all about ’ ‘ Puss in boots ’ and
‘ Red Riding Hood.’ I had a little girl on my
knee not long ago, who, desiring to inform me
as to the distance of the planet Jupiter from the
moon, or some such calculation too abstruse for
me, looked at me with astonishment when I
hummed for her a bit of the old rhyme, ‘ Three
little kittens had lost their mittens,’ and wanted
to convince me that ‘ Jack and the bean-stalk ’
could not be true ! ... I believe it is Dr.

Johnson who says he would rather see a boy
throwing stones at an apple-tree than doing
nothing ; but there is a worse state than even
that of listless idleness ; it is when the mind is
crammed with food it cannot digest. I consider
the perpetual inculcation of facts to be not only
detrimental to a child’s present, but pernicious
-to its future ; and that to leave imagination en-
tirely barren is a crime against nature. It is
against this evil ... I enter my protest ;
against a principle that seems to guide and gov-
ern those who are to ‘ rear up ’ the men and
women of hereafter; against a system — for it is
a system — which excludes imagination from its
curriculum, and so depresses sympathy and
puts charity out-of-doors, contracting and de-
pressing judgment — hardening nature by limiting
its exercise to granite facts.” — Mrs. S. C. Hall,
“ Nature demands for all young and growing
creatures relaxation, unbending of mind, sport
in the fresh air, and, in fact, the means of vigor-
ous health, in order to enable them to bear the'
wear and tear of mental tension. But this is
totally disregarded in modern education. All is
work, work, force, force, and no play. ... A
boy we knew in England who was thus drilled
into permature knowledge by a very clever
mother of the mathematical school, who used to
startle us by such remarks as seemed to come
not from himself, but from some familiar that
possessed him. Mrs. Howitt gave him a book
that was a great favorite with those of his own
age — about eight — but he found it infinitely too
juvenile, and informed her that for his occasional
light reading he had just finished Boccaccio’s
‘ Decameron,’ and was beginning ‘ Don Quix-
ote.’ ” — William Howitt.

In Stories by an old Bohemian (London,
Tinsley, 1883), “ ‘ A psychological problem’ is
the story of a mauvais bibliophile , a fearful char-
acter. Corruptio optimi pessima ; when a bib-
liophile is a bad man he is the worst of men.” —
Sat. rev., Jan. 27, p. 123.

iiiljratj) IlJuicljagcsIList.

A SELECTION OE NEW BOOKS, WITH NOTES OK
COMMENDATION OR CAUTION.

Books mentioned -without notes can, as a rule, be safely
Purchase i for the general reader. The binding, unless
otherwise expressed, is generally understood to be in
cloth.

Abbott, Lyman, D.D., ed. Henry Ward
Beecher ; a sketch of his career ; with analyses
of his power as a preacher, lecturer, orator,
and journalist, and incidents and reminiscen-
ces of his life. N. Y., Funk & Wagnalls. O.
subs., $3.

“ Mr. Beecher as an orator, lecturer, preacher, journalist,
man and citizen, is fully and adequately presented.” —
Christian register.

Alexander, Mrs. \pseud. for Mrs. A. F. Hec-
tor]. The admiral’s ward : a novel, N. Y.,
Holt. S. (Leisure hour ser.), cl., $1. Same.
S. (Leisure moment ser.,) pap., 40 c.

Amos, Sheldon. The science of politics. N.Y.,
Appleton. D. (Internat. sci. ser.) $1.75.
Archibald, F. A., D. D., ed. Methodism and
literature : articles from several writers on the
literary enterprise and achievements of the
Methodist Episcopal Church ; with a catalogue
of select books for the home, church, and Sun-
day-school. Cin,, Walden & Stowe. D. $1.50.
Austin, G ; Lowell. Henry Wadsworth Long-
fellow : his life. Bost., Lee & Shepard, 1883,
O. subs., $2.50.

Bacon, Francis. The promus of formularies
and elegancies, il. and elucidated by passages
from Shakespeare by Mrs. H. Pott. Bost.,
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. O. $5.

“The theory of the book is simply this: That Bacon
made this collection of words, phrases, and proverbs, 1655
in number, for use in literary work, and that the plays
known as Shakespeare’s contain hundreds and thousands
of passages which show that the passages were put to use
in writing them. ... A complete and more disastrous
fadure could not be found in the annals of literature. . . .
We have not found an instance, not one, in which a passage
in the plays is shown to have its origin in the Promus.” —
N. Y. Tribune.

Baldwin, Ja. An introduction to the study of
English literature and literary criticism. In 2
V. V. 2, Prose, Phil., Potter & Co. D. $2.50.
Battle (The) of the Moy ; or, how Ireland
gained her independence, 1892-94. Bost.,
Lee & Shepard. S. pap., 25 c.

“ Satirical pamphlet in the style of ‘ The battle of Dork-
ing.’”

Benton, Joel. Emerson as a poet. N. Y., M.
L. Holbrook & Co. D. $1.50.

“ Mr. Benton is a fervent believer in the greatness of
Emerson’s poetry , which he holds to be the most pure,
aerial and fervent-souled since Shakespeare’s music became
measured and still.”

Bolles, Albert S. Financial history of the
United States, 1789-1860. ‘N. Y., Appleton.

O. $3.50.

Bonner, Sherwood. Dialect tales. N. Y., Har-
per. O. $1.75.

“Clever tales of border-state, mountain and rural life.”

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{May, ’83.

Braune, W : Gothic grammar ; with selections
for reading and a glossary ; tr. from the 2d
German ed, by G. H. Balg. N. Y., B. Wes-
termann & Co. O. pap., 90 c.
Brockeehurst, T: Unett. Mexico to-day:
and a glance at the prehistoric remains and
antiquities of the Monte/.umas. N. Y., Scrib-
ner & Welford, with 17 col. pi., map and 37
wood eng. from sketches by the author. O.
$7- 50-

Brown, J. C. co7np. The forests of England —
and the management of them in bye-gone
limes. Edinb., (Lond., Simpkin, Marshall &
Co.) D. 6s.

Browning, R. Complete works. New ed. Bost.,
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 7 v., cr. 8®. $12.

Bryant, W ; Cullen. Poetical works ; ed. by
Parke Godwin. N. Y., Appleton. 2 v. O.
$6.

Buchanan, Jos. Rodes, M.D. Moral educa-
tion; its laws and methods, id ed. N. Y.,
printed for the author by S. W. Green’s Son.
D. |i-5o.

Buckland, Anna. The story of English liter-
ature. N. Y., Cassell, Better, Galpin & Co.,
D. $1.50.

“ Intended for those who come quite freshly to the sub-
ject, not as critics, nor even yet as students, but with awak-
ening intelligence. For this purpose the book is admirably
adapted, and it is eminently calculated to arouse an inter-
est in our literature amongst the young.” — Athenceum.

Burnham, S. M. History and uses of lime-
stones and marbles ; with 48 chromo-litho-
graphs, Bost, S. E. Cassino. O. cl., $6.
Buxton, H. J. Wilmot. English painters ; with
a chapter on American painters by S. R.
Koehler. N. Y., Scribner and Welford. il.
D. (Illustrated art hand-books.) $2.

Cairo, E: Hegel. Phil., Lippincott. D. (Phil-
os. classics for Eng. readers). $1.25.

“ Enables the English reader to take abird’s-ejre view of
the whole system so elaborately wrought out by the great
German philosopher. . . . Not a sentence of Prof.
Caird’s is obscure in expression.” — British quarterly.

Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Letters and memorials
prepared for publication by Thomas Carlyle ;
ed. by James Anthony Froude. N. Y., Har-
per. Q. (Harper’s Franklin sq. lib.), pap.,
30 c. Same, LAbrary ed. N. Y., Harper. D.
$1.50. Same, Ne7v and cheaper authorized ed.
2 V. in I. N. Y., Scribner. O. $1.50.

See notice in last issue.

Child, Francis J., ed. English and Scottish
popular ballads. Edition de luxe. In 8 pts.
Pt. I. Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co. F.
subs., $5. {limited to 1000 copies).

Clum. Franklin D., M.D. Men and women ;
their structure and function, and how to sup-
ply their wants, direct their powers, avoid
their afflictions, and sustain their lives. Bost.,
Lothrop. D. $2.

Concord lectures on philosophy ; outlines of
all the lectures in 1882, with an histoi-ical
sketch ; collected by R. L. Bridgman , revised
by the lecturers. Cambridge, Mass., Moses
King. O. $1.75 ; pap., $1.25.

Daughter (A) of the Philistines. Bost., Rob-
erts Bros. S. (No name ser.) $1.

“A story of the fashionable life in New York which has
its centre in Wall street.”

” Unworthy a place in the distinguished company to
which it has been admitted.” — Literary world.

Davis, I. P. Hygiene for girls. N. Y,, Apple-
ton. S. $1.25.

“ Frank and plain spoken. It i.s in the main sensible, yet
it strikes us as rather a book to be read by those who have
the care of girls than by girls themselves.” — Atlantic
monthly.

(See also notice in last issue, p. 56.)

Davis, W : T. Ancient landmarks of Plymouth.
Bost., Williams. O. $4.

” Contains matter lying for the most part outside of the
domain of history. . . . The first part, largely devoted
to abstracts of titles of estates, is prefaced by so much mat-
ter of a purely historical nature as is needed to throw clear
light on the methods by which the estates were originally
secured to the Plymouth colonists. The second part con-
sists of a genealogical register.” — Preface.

Dix, Rev. Morgan. Lectures on the calling of
a Christian woman, and her training to fulfil
it, delivered during the season of Lent. N. Y.,
Appleton. S. 50 c.

” The American married woman of his acquaintance is
something very different from what he thinks she ought to
be — and from what most of us know her to be.” — Cleveland
Herald.

Dobson, Austin. Fielding. N.Y., Harper. D.
(Eng. men of letters.) 75 c.

” For the first time we have now a plain statement of the
chief facts in Fielding’s life, set free from all the cloudy le-
gend which clusters about famous names.” — Critic.

Duffy, Sir C\ Gavan. Four years of Irish his-
tory, 1845-1849. N. Y., Cassell, Better, Gal-
pin & Co. O. $3.

” A graphic picture of rebellions or risings. The author
writes of transactions in which he for the most part person-
ally shared.”

Elder, W: Conversations on the principal
subjects of political economy. Phil., H: Carey
Baird & Co. 8^ $2.50.

Esmarch, F:, il/.Z). Early aid in injuries and
accidents. Phil., Lea. 75 c.

Fanchette, by one of her admirers. Bost.,
Osgood. S. (Round-robin ser.) $1.

“ Rosy and fanciful to the last degree.” — Dial.

Farrer, T. H. The state in its relation to
trade. N. Y., Macmillan. D. (Citizen se-
ries.) $1.

Ferris, B: G. New theory of the origin of
species. N. Y., Fowler & Wells. D. $1.50.

“ The author accepts evolution in a general sense, but
is of opinion that creative intelligence and power were em-
ployed in the production of the successive steps of the
process.”

Firdusi. The epics of kings ; stories retold
from Firdusi by Helen Zimmern. N. Y., Holt.
D. $2.50.

“ Popular paraphrase from the French version of Prof.
Jules Mohl of the ‘ Shah Nameh’ or ‘ Book of Kings.’
This poem ranks with the Iliad, Odyssey, the Niebelungen
Lied, and other great epics of the world. It is the Persian
national poem.”

Foote, Mary Hallock. The Led-Horse claim,
il. by the author. Bost., Osgood. D. $1.25.

” A romance of the mining camp, in which the idealistic
tendency contends with realism for t'ne mastery. It is of
the new school mining-camp story, as worthy of study in
its way as were Bret Harte’s best efforts.” — Chic. Inter-
ocean.

Freeman, Ja. E. Gatherings from an artist’s

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portfolio in Rome. Bost., Roberts. D.
$1.50.

“ Reminiscences of American, English, German, and
French artists who resided in Rome some twenty-five or
thirty years ago. A very entertaining volume of art gos-
sip.” — Pu bl ish ers' weekly.

Gat.dos, B. Perez. Marianela ; from the .Span-
ish by Clara Bell ; rev. and corr. in the U. S.
N. Y., W: S. Gottsberger. S. pap., 50 c.

” The story is simply and charmingly told.” — Publishers'
weekly.

Gautier, Judith. R: Wagner and his poetical
work, from Rienzi to Parsifal. Bost., Will-
iams. D. $1.

” The body of the work does very little beyond giving an
account of Wagner’s opera texts. . . . 'I'he volume is in
part rather personal, but may well serve as an introduction
to Wagner.” — Boston Advertiser.

Gregory, J: M. A new political economy.
Cin., Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co. D. net, $1.20.

” He claims for his work the presentation of fresh views
on Value, and ‘ a clear recognition of the three great eco-
nomic facts of Wants, Work, and Wealth, as the principal
and constant factors of the industries, and as constituting,
therefore, the field of economic science.’ ”

Griesinger, Theodor. The Jesuits; a complete
history of their open and secret proceedings.
N. Y., Putnam. 2 v. O. $6.

‘‘ His book is not a history ; it is an indictment. His
method is not that of the historian, but rather that of a
prosecuting attorney seeking everywhere for arguments to
prove his accusation. . . . The whole later history of Jesuit-
ism— a dark and sad history enough at the best — is made to
throw its shadow backward over the character and purpose
of its founders.” — Natioti.

Green, Anna Katherine. The Leavenworth
case. Popular ed. N. Y., Putnam. Q. pap.,
20 c.

Greer, H: Dictionary of electricity. N. Y.,

N. Y. Agent College of Electrical Engineer-
ing. il. D. $2.

Guest, Edwin. Origines Celticae (a fragment),
and other contributions to the history of Brit-
ain. N. Y., Macmillan. 2 v. O. $9.
Haeckel, E. Letters of Indian travel ; a visit
to India and Ceylon in 1881. Bost., Cassino.

O. $2.50,

“All his aggressive Darwinism has been laid aside for
the moment, and he comes out in a fresh role as a word-
painter of charmingly idyllic tropical pictures.” — Pall Mall
gazette.

Hall, S. C. Retrospect of a long life, 1815-
1883. N. Y., Appleton. O. $2.50.

“ His long connection with letters brought him into con-
tact with almost every literary man of note of this century,
and with many of the most prominent in art, politics, and
the drama.”

“ The best example of the class of ana to which it belongs
that we have seen for years.” — N. Y. Mail and express.

Hardy, Arthur Sherburne. But yet a woman :
a novel. Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co. D.
$1.25.

” A French story, simple in plot, but charmingly told. . . .
There is one short episode that gives a vivid glimpse of the
Count de Chambord and the restless legitimists who would
have placed him on the throne ; there are sketches of
travels in Spain, and of the quiet, domestic life to be found
even in Paris.” — Boston Advertiser.

“ A literary book, to be prized by those who do not de-
mand in a novel vitality, humor, realism, or power, if only
it possesses refinement, finish, philosophy, and style. . . .
Prof. Hardy has drawn excellent people, but he has not
drawn them excellently. They are merely mouth-pieces
for his own admirable thoughts.” — Critic, Apr. 28.

Hartelius, T. J., M.D. Home gymnastics
for the preservation and restoration of health

in children and young and old people of both
sexes ; with a short method of acquiring
the art of swimming ; tr. and adapted from
the Swedish by C. Ldfving. Phil., Lippin-
cott. il. S. 60 c.

Hay, Mary Cecil. Bid me discourse : a novel.
N. Y., Harper. Q. (Harper’s Franklin sq.
lib.) pap., 10 c.

Hazeltine, Mayo Williamson. Chats about
books; poets and novelists. N. Y., Scribner’s
Sons. D. $1.50.

” Essays of respectable merit, but without extraordinary
quality, either of thought or style.” — Literary world.

“We have no hesitation in placing these papers among
the very best, as liierary criticism, which have been pro-
duced in American journalism.” — N. Y. Times.

Hoimer. The Iliad ; done into English prose by
Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers.
N. Y., Macmillan. D. $1.50.

“Deserves and will obtain a wide circulation.” — Nation.

Hoppus, Mary A. M. A story of carnival,
N. Y., Holt. S. (Leisure hour ser.) $1.
Same. S. (Leisure moment ser.) pap., 25 c.
The scene in Rome, the characters mostly English, the
central figure an American artist, the villain a picturesque
Italian.

Hudson, H; N. Life, art, and characters of
Shakespeare. 4M ed., rev. Bost., Ginn,
Heath & Co. 2 v. D. $4.

Hudson, H; N. Essays on education, English
studies, and Shakespeare. Bost., Ginn, Heath
& Co. S. pap., net, 25 c.

James, H;, jr. Daisy Miller ; a study, and
other stories. N. Y., Harper. Q. (Harper’s
Franklin sq. lib., no. 303.) pap., 25 c.
Contains also : An international episode ; The diary
of a man of fifty, and A bundle of letters.

Jeffries, B. Joy, M.D. Color blindness ; its
dangers and its detection. Mew ed., rev. and
ent. Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co. D. $2.
Johnson, S; Lectures, essays, and sermons ;
with a memoir by S. Longfellow. Bost.,
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. D. $1.75.

“ One who thought all the time and thought precisely,
boldly, largely, with extraordinary breadth of view as well
as singular reach of insight ; an original man, absorbed in
living questions, which he grappled with powerfully, with
fine appreciation of their difficulties as well as of their capa-
bilities.”— Christian register.

Kennedy, W: Sloane. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Bost., Cassino. D. $1.50.

“ Abounds with instances of hasty work. Except for the
bibliography it is hard to see much value in the book.” —
Bost. Advertiser.

King, E; The gentle savage ; [a novel]. Bost.,
Osgood. D. $2.

“ An enterprising piece of melodrama.” — Boston Trav-
eller.

Landon, Melville D. Eli Perkins’s wit. humor,
and pathos. Chic., Belford, Clarke & Co. $1,
pap., 50 c.

Lane, E; W. Arabian society in the middle
ages: studies from “ The thousand and one
nights ed. by Stanley Lane Poole. N. Y.,
Scribner & Welford. D. $2.40.

“ German criticism has found no addition or correction
to make to his description of ‘ The modern Egyptians,’ and
though Herr von Kremer’s Culturgeschichte gives us a
more detailed study of Arabian civilization, we have as yet
nothing in English which can hold rank with the present
work as a popular exposition of the ideas and manners
which have characterized Arabian society.” — Saturday rev.

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\May., ’83.

Locker, F: London lyrics. N. Y., Scribner
& Welford. S. $1.

Lucy, K: W. Gideon Fleyce : a novel. N. Y.,
II: Holt & Co , 1883. S. (Leisure hour ser.)
$1. Same. (Leisure moment ser.) pap., 30 c.

“ Politics are his strong point ; he shines in smart, lively
sketches of typical politicians, of whips ami wirepullers, of
the Tapers and the Tadpoles, and most of his studies
are not only lifelike but entertaining.” — Saturday re-
view.

” But the book challenges admiration on its merits as a
story, and will be read with pleasure by readers who know
nothing and care as little about London notabilities.” —
Nation.

Lupton, W. M. a concise English history.
Bost. , Roberts. D. $1.50.

“Mr. Lupton’s ‘ Concise history of England’ from the
earliest period to the present day contains every important
event from the invasion of Britain by Caesar to 1880. The
arrangement is good, and the index carefully prepared.”

McElroy, J: The red acorn ; a novel. Chic.,
H: A. Sumner & Co. D. (The acorn ser.) $r.

‘ The scene of this enjoyable novel is laid in Ohio, Ken-
tucky, and Tennessee, where the First DivLion of the
P'ourteenth Army Corps earned its well-won laurels. The
title, ’ The red acorn,’ is taken from the army badge of
this corps.” — Chicago Inter-ocean.

Madoc, Fayr. The story of Melicent. N. Y.,
Macmillan. D. $1. Same N. Y., Harper.
(Harper’s Franklin sq. lib.) pap., 10 c.

“ This little story evinces considerable talent. The char-
acters are well and firmly drawn, and the style is careful
and literary.” — Academy.

“ The story is one of petty details and tiresome family
history. . . . The author is not powerful enough to
deal with so difficult a subject of romance. Nor is she
capable of charming, her readers by her style.” — A thenceum.

Maertz, Louise. Key to a new method for the
study of English literature. Chic., Griggs.
D. 50 c.

Markham, Clements R. The war between Peru
and Chile, 1879 — 82. N. Y., Worthington. D.
$2.50.

“ Violently partisan.” — Nation.

Mongredien, a. Wealth-creation ; with intro-
duction by Simon Sterne, N. Y., Cassell,
Fetter, Galpin & Co. D. $1.25.

“The most accurate and important of his works. ...
Unlike most writers on political economy, Mongredien is in
style simple and lucid, for which we may thank the fact
that he is a man of business instead of a scholarly recluse.”
— Thehotir.

“ The conclusions reached are that by the abolition of
war, through arbitration or a confederation of sovereign
states, by the establishment of free trade, and by the
education of tlie common people, the obstacles to produc-
tion will be largely removed and eventually there will be
plenty of wealth for all.” — New York Evening post.

Montgomery, Hugh. Hugh Montgomery :
Irish minister and temperance reformer ; with
sermons and addresses. N, Y., Phillips &
Hunt. D. $1.50.

Morse, J: T., jr. Thomas Jefferson. Bost.,
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. S. (American states-
men.) cl., $1.25.

“ Randall’s three ponderous volumes are unreadable, and
Parton has always shown such an inveterate passion for
whitewashing shady characters that no one will read his
‘ Life of Jefferson,’ except for its picturesque details. For
a dispassionate view of the real man readers have had
to go to the masterly pages of the Frenchman DeWitt,
Guizot’s son-in-law. ... That Mr. Morse’s estimate, or any
estimate of Jefferson, will be universally accepted as the
final verdict, is not probable, but the whole tendency of
opinion has been toward the view presented by Mr. Morse
in his brilliant and vigorous pages.” — Boston Advertiser .

My trivial life and misfortune : a gossip with no
plot in particular, by a plain woman. 2 v.
N. Y., Putnam’s Sons. S. $2 ; pap., $r.

“ This singular book deals with that religion and morali-
ty of mediocrity which were adopted, like other fashions,
by the last generation of London society at its most fashion-
able, most vacuous, most profoundly vulgar epoch. . . .
Never before has this degraded phase of life been so power-
fully and minutely analyzed, because never before with such
bitter experience or in a spirit so forgiving and so charitable.”
— A cademy.

Oldenberg, Hermann. Buddha : his life, his
doctrine, his order; tr. by W. Hoey. N. Y.,
Scribner & Welford. O. $7.

Paige, Lucius R. History of Hardwick, Mass.,
with geneal. register. Bost., Houghton, Mif-
flin & Co. O. $5.

Perry, Gardner B. History of Bradford, Mass. ,
Haverhill, Mass., C. C. Morse & Son.
69 p. O. bds., $1.50. {Edition limited to 250
copies.')

Pollock, F: History of the science of pol-
itics. N. Y., J. Fitzgerald. O. (Humboldt
lib.) pap., 15 c.

Poole, R. S., Richmond, W. B., and others.
Lectures on art. N. Y., Macmillan. D.
$1.50.

Preble, G: H: Chronological history of the
origin and development of steam navigation,
1543-1882. Phil., L. R. Hamersly & Co. O.
$3.50 ;shp., I5.

Prentiss, G:, D.D. The life of Gilbert Haven,
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
N. Y., Phillips & Hunt. O. |2.

Price, A, Who is Sylvia? a novel. N. Y.,
Harper. Q. (Harper’s Franklin sq. lib.)
pap., 20 c.

Pryde, D: The highways of literature ; or, what
to read and how to read. N. Y.,Funk & Wag-
nalls. D. (Standard lib.) pap., 15 c.
Rawlinson, G: The religions of the ancient
world, including Egypt, Assyria and Babylo-
nia, Persia, India, Phoenicia, Etruria, Greece,
Rome. N. Y., Scribner. D. $1.

“ The best part of the book seems to be that devoted to
the Greek and Roman religions. Without going far beneath
the surface, the author gives the principal facts of their
mythologies in clear and easy style, and not without sympa-
thetic appreciation of their ideas. In other parts — particu-
larly in the chapters on the Assyrian and Babylonian,
Phoenician and Persian faiths — he makes a number of in-
correct or unproved statements.” — Nation.

Reade, A; Arthur, ed. Study and stimulants ;
or, the use of intoxicants and narcotics in re-
lation to intellectual life ; as illustrated by per-
sonal communications on the subject from men
of letters and of science. Phil., Lippincott,
D. $1.50.

“More than a hundred ‘testimonials,’ some very curt
and some prolix, upon the mental influence of stimulants,
given by brain-workers in rcplj'^ to specific inquiries, and
nearly a score more extracted from publications, with
twenty p.iges of comment.” — Nation.

Robinson, A: Mary F. Emily Bronte. Bost.,
Roberts. S. (Famous women series.), fr.
“ The author gives much new matter as to the Brontes,
not covered by Mrs. Gaskell and others, and brings Emily
Bronte and her father more prominently forward than the
others.”

“ Written with womanly grace and feeling, with earnest-
ness and eloquence, and in a larger critical spirit than we

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should have expected.” — R. H. Stoddard in the Mail and
express.

Roiunson, E: G. Lectures on preaching. N. Y.,
Holt. D. $1.25.

“ Liberal spirit, valuable suggestions,” — Boston Adver-
tiser.

Rouinson, F: Vy. The hands of justice : a novel.

N. Y., Harper. Q. (Harper’s Franklin sq.
lib.) pap., 20 c.

Romanes, G: J. Scientific evidences of organic
evolution. N. Y., Macmillan. D. (Nature
ser.) 50.

” May be said to be one of the best, if not the best, sum-
mary of the. modern scientific gospel accessible to the
reader who lacks time to read more extensive works, but
who wishes to know what are the beliefs of the best-inform-
ed naturalists of the day and the principal reasons for their
beliefs. — Nation.'^

Roosevelt, Blanche. Marked “ In haste a
story of to-day. [Afwu.] N. Y., Trow’s
Printing and Bookbinding Co., [C: T, Dil-
lingham]. D. $1.50.

” Residents of Paris will recognize a number of persons
belonging to the American colony ; there is one par-
ticularly virulent attack on the wife of a Secretary of Le-
gation who has made herself feared and hated as the Paris
correspondent of American newspapers.” — Alezv Vorh
Times.

Sandeau, Jules. The house of Penarvan.
‘ N. Y., Munro. Q. (Seaside lib.) pap,, 10 c.

Savage, M. J. The modern sphinx and some
of her riddles. Bost., Ellis. D. $1.

“A commonplace, but Conscientious exposition of the
gospel according to Darwin, Huxley, Goethe, Mr. Edward
Atkinson, and indeed pretty much everybody except
Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John. It is a volume of sermons.
Texts are sdipensed with. And Christ is mentioned as ‘ the
grandest of free-thinkers.’ ” — Boston Advertiser.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Select letters ; ed.,
with an introd., by R; Garnett. N, Y,, Ap-
pleton. S. (Parchment ser.) vellum, $1.25.

“ Mr. Matthew Arnold has spoken of these letters as
among the most delightful and finished of Shelley’s works,
and as taking high rank in English epistolary literature.” —
Christian union.

Smith, J. Alden. Report on the development
of the mineral, metallurgical, agricultural,
pastoral, and other resources of Colorado for
1881 and 1882. Denver, Col., Chain & Hardy,

O. pap., 35 c.

Smith, J; Domestic botany : exposition of the
structure and classification of plants and their
uses for food, clothing, medicine, and manu-
facturing purposes. N. Y., Macmillan, il. D.
$3-50-

SoLEY, Ja. Russell. The blockade and the cruis-
ers. N. Y., Scribner’s Sons. D. (The navy
in the civil war ser.) $1.

“ Under the title ‘ The navy in the civil war,’ the
Messrs. Scribner begin a new series, supplementary to
‘ The campaigns of the civil war.’ It will be complete in
three iztno volumes, with maps and plans.”

“ This book is well arranged, written clearly, without
technical terms, and shows great familiarity with the sub-
ject. It is niarked by thoroughness of preparation, sound
judgmeni, and admirable impartiality.” — Nation.

Spencer, Herbert. Descriptive sociology : the
social history of France ; in which the ele-
ments of French social development for two
thousand years are classified and tabulated.
N. Y., Appleton. Large fo. (double number),
$7-

Taussig, F. W. Protection to young industries
as applied in the United States ; a study in
economic history. Cambridge, Mass., Moses
King. D. 75 c.

Free trade in tendency.

Thucydides ; tr. into English with introduc-
tion, marginal analysis, and index by B.
Jowett ; ed., with a preface to Amer. ed., by
A. P. Peabody, D.D. Bost., Lothrop. O.
$3-50-

A reprint of the first volume of the English edition pub-
lished in two volumes — the .second, consisting of critical
notes, being valuable and indeed intelligible only to the
Greek scholar, with the Greek text in hand.

Van Dyke, J. C. Books, and how to use
them. N. Y., Fords, Howard & Hulbert. D.
$1.

Walters, Rev. W. Life and labors of Rob.
Moffat, D.D., missionary in South Africa.
N. Y., Carter, il. D. $1.25.

Wedgwood, Hensleigh. Contested etymologies
in the dictionary of the Rev. W. Skeat. Bost.,
Osgood. D. $2.

Wendling, G: R. Ingersollism ; from a secular
point of view: a lecture. Chic., Jansen, Mc-
Clurg & Co. O. $1.

“A calm argument against the acceptation of Mr. Robert
Ingersoll’s views about religion ; from the Christian stand-
point, and in no way personal.”

Williams, W. Mattieu. Science in short chap-
ters. N. Y., Funk & Wagnalls. D. (Stand-
ard lib.) pap., 25 c.

A popular presentation of every-day scientific facts, such
as the origin of soap, concert-room acoustics, the consump-
tion of smoke, the social benefits of paraffine, the formation
of coal, the barometer and the weather, etc., for busy
people.

MORE WARNINGS FOR BUYERS.

“The student’s encyclopaedia of universal
knowledge ” (vol. i, London, Hodder & Stough-
ton, 1883) is merely a new issue of the Globe
encyclopaedia (Edin., Jack, 1876-79, 6 v.). The
old plates have been used, but some changes
have been made. Unluckily for the purchaser in
many cases in the statistics, iho the year has
been changed, the other figures have been left
as they stood before ! (See Academy, March 3i,[p.
219.)

“Popery judged by its fruits’ [Boston,
1883] is no new work, but a mere rehash of the
slanders and scandalous remarks found in a
work first published in Spanish, in 1748, and
translated into English in 1758, under the title,
“A voyage to South America,” London, 2 v.,
12^. — Lit. world, Apr. 7.

“Barrington’s fate,” one of the “No name
series,” first appeared in England as “ Self-con-
demned,” by Mrs. Alfred W. Hunt. See Satur-
day reviezv, April 7, p. 444, for review of “ Self-
conde^nned," and compare names, characters, and
plot.

For another warning against a book recom-
mended by the highest authorities, see the com-
munication “ Blind guides,” in the Nation,' A^r.
12, where some good remarks are made on the
too common practice of highly recommending
worthless books.

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Way, ’83.

(SGeneial Jlotes.

The House of Commons library is now light-
ed by Edison eclectric light.

Mr. G: Grosvenor Tarbell is about to build
a public library in Lincoln, Mass., his native
town.

At Quebec the old Parliament House was
burned on April ig. “ It is thought that nearly
half the library was saved.”

A National Dramatic Library is to be estab-
lishment in New York. Messrs. Harry Ed-
wards, J. Brander Matthews, and others are a
committee to raise funds.

Columbia, Conn., has received from Mr. Sex-
ton B. Little a lot for a library building and $1000
for a book fund. The people of the town have
subscribed $350 to maintain the library and are
raising money fora building.

A library and reading-room has been started
in Colorado Springs, of which Mrs. M. A. Gar-
stin, who will be pleasantly remembered by the
librarians who returned from the London Con-
ference on the Alsatia., has taken charge.

Monterey, Mexico. — ” It was pleasant to
find a public library open every day, and free to
all comers, established last year, and close to
the chief place of concourse. It consists of only
89 short shelves of books, though they are of
fair quality, and more have been ordered. The
worst sign is that I can count on the fingers of
one hand all the readers I have seen there.” —
Nation, Mar. 2g, p. 272.

The Massachusetts Comrnandery of the Loyal
Legion of the United States has recently estab-
lished a permanent headquarters, and resolved
to gather a library of books, manuscripts, pam-
phlets, maps, etc., relating to the civil war. The
commencement of this collection, by the pres-
entation of books, etc., from members and
others, is very encouraging, and at the last
monthly meeting two members handed over to
the recorder their checks for $100 each for the
purchase of books.

Ann Arbor. — ‘‘ At the University of Michigan
the librarian has been in the habit, for three
years past, of giving stated lectures on bibliog-
raphy to students that chose to attend, and, by
special vote of the Board of Regents in June
last, a regular elective course in bibliography was
added to the list of studies open to candidates
for the several literary degrees. Thirty-six stu-
dents are now pursuing this course under the
instruction of the librarian.” — Nation.

Mr. Winsor is to deliver an address at the
next commencement for the dedication of the
new library building.

Theses. — As the result of official negotiations,
arrangements have been concluded by which an
interchange of academical theses will take place
between France and most of the universities of
Europe. On the one side are sixteen French
libraries, and on the other thirty universities of
Germany, Switzerland, and Scandinavia. It is

estimated that France alone produces nearly 900
of these theses in the year, and the other uni-
versities no less than 1500. — Acad.

Congress steadily refuses to make any suitable
provision for the accommodation and safety of
the Library of Congress, yet year after year it
makes liberal appropriations for the purchase of
literary treasures which it condemns to imprison-
ment in dark dungeons inaccessible to the pub-
lic. Thjs year, besides the usual amount for
books, etc., there is an appropriation of $20,000
to buy the military papers, maps, and letter-books
of the Count de Rochambeau, and one of $8000
for the purchase of “a set of records and briefs
in cases in the Supreme Courts,” belonging to the
estate of the late Senator Matthew H. Carpen-
ter.— Tribune, Mar. ig.

The Bodleian Librarian, Mr. E. B. Nicholson,
pursues his plan of making his treasures avail-
able to students during periods when they were
were formerly withdrawn. He has had the
Camera open from 10 in the morning to 10 at
night, and books wanted by readers from the
older part of the library have been sent for them.
These days make up the twelve old close ones
which Mr. Nicholson has made over to reader^
in five months. Any one who has, like our cor-
respondent, made at different times two jour-
neys to Oxford to consult Chaucer and Wyclif
mss. , and has been sent back without seeing them
on account of needless ” closing” regulations,
will appreciate Mr. Nicholson’s liberality. — Acad.

CO-OPERATIVE INDEX.

Notice to Collaborators.

Since the previous issue, several periodicals
have been added to the list, and several new col-
laborators have offered their services, as follows ;
MissM. C. Harbaugh, State Library, Columbus,
O. ; Antiqtiary.—G. Wm. Harris, Library of
Cornell University ; Bibliographer, Scottish re-
view.—M.\ss H. P. James, Free Library, Newton,
Mass. ; Catholic world. — C. Alex. Nelson, Astor
Library; Knowledge, Overland, Van Nostrand. —
S. B. Noyes, Brooklyn Library ; National re-
view, Teinple bar. — J. C. Sickley, Board of
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to accommodate the Young Men’s Association,
the Grosvenor Library, the Fine Arts Academy,
the Historical Society, and the Society of Nat-
ural Sciences, and to contain a public hall with
2500 seats. A meeting was held on April 19,
and a subscription-list was begun. It may be
remembered that a somewhat similar scheme
was proposed in Chicago a year or two ago with
reference to the use of Dearborn Park ; at pres-
ent it appears to be in abeyance. Boston might
profitably meditate such an enterprise. It has
the Consolidated Charities, why not the Consol-
idated Libraries ? There are sevreral that have
outgrown their quarters. The Massachusetts
Historical Society, the American Academy, the
Medical Library, the N. E. Historical Genealog-
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will soon be in want of room, and perhaps the
libraries of the Horticultural Society, the Har-
vard Musical Association, and the Civil Engi-
neers’ Association might be added to the list.
The Social Law Library is not to be thought of in
this connection, though it is the most crowded of
all, because it must for convenient use always be
kept in the Court-House. A great Union Build-

ing in a central situation, well lighted and aired,
which should contain rooms for the private de-
bates of the societies, and a hall for public meet-
ings, and shelf-room enough to hold three or
four or five times the number of books that
would at first be put into it, would be a great
boon to the libraries. It is not necessary to in-
sist upon the advantage of housing many similar
societies under one roof. London has tried the
experiment, and found it greatly to her advan-
tage. An even greater gain comes from having
many libraries thus joined. A union of special
collections of books is better, so far as its range
extends, than one all-embracing library. Even
libraries of similar character are more useful
side by side, for the rare book which one lacks
may be supplied from the other. The minor ad-
vantage of being easily found (since every one
would know where so important a building was)
is not altogether to be despised in a cow-planned
city like Boston.

We have said that the structure should be
capable of containing three or four times the
present libraries. Such a demand will seem ex-
travagant to those who are not accustomed to
watch the growth of libraries ; but it is none too
provident. The Boston Athenaeum and the
American Academy at their present rate of in-
crease will double in twenty years. The Histor-
ical Societies do not now grow so fast, but they
are not at all unlikely to receive bequests of
funds or of thousands of volumes at once. A
library is as certain to need more shelf-room
than it has as a boy is to grow out of his clothes.
The proverb was never more true than in this
case, that “ it is the unexpected which happens.”
No library building was ever made too large ;
few have been made large enough even for a
near future ; few have been planned with a view
to the inevitable enlargement.

But it is folly to discuss the size of a building
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Slmciican association.

THE BUFFALO CONVENTION,

The Sixth Annual Convention of American
Librarians will be held at Buffalo, on Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, August 14-
17, 1883.

The Association will convene in the Executive
Committee room of the Young Men’s Library,
corner Main and Eagle Streets, August 14, at
10 a.m.

The opening address will be delivered by the
President, Prof. Justin Winsor.

Reports and papers will be read by F. B. Per-
kins, S. B. Noyes, Wm. F. Poole, Weston Flint,
W. E. Foster, C. A. Cutter, Mellen Chamber-
lain, Miss Mary N. Bean, Miss Theresa H. West,
S. S. Green, C. W. Merrill, K. A. Linderfelt,
Justin Winsor, Melvil Dewey, J. Edmands, Guy
A. Brown, and Miss Mary A. Browne, — Aug, 14,
forenoon and evening ; Aug. 15, morning ; Aug.
16, morning, afternoon, and evening ; Friday,
forenoon, Aug. 17 (close of Convention).

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be made down the Niagara River, and a recep-
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Grand Island, in the evening.

Friday afternoon, Aug. 17, an excursion will
start for Niagara Falls.

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Genesee House, corner Main and Genesee
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rate from $4 to $3 per day.

Railroads.

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and West, for special rates, are in progress, and
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will be obtained from several of them ; but no
positive announcement can yet be made, except
as regards arrangements from New York to
Buffalo, tickets for which, and return, will not
exceed $12 in cost.

A circular to be sent out hereafter will give
definite information on these points.

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obtained from Mr. John N. Lamed, Young
Men’s Library, Buffalo.

VALL^)E’S BIBLIOGRAPHIE.

Seventeen years ago Herr Petzholdt, the in-
defatigable editor of the Neuer Anzeiger fiif
Bibliographie , compiled a classified list of the
bibliografies then existing which probably
came as near being complete and accurate as
any bibliografy ever came. Since that time
the world has been living very fast. Bibliogra-
fies have increased like inventions and the
prices of pictures and books and the number of
people in the world, like everything, in fact, ex-
cept the rate of interest. Wherefore M. Vallee
has undertaken to do Herr Petzholdt’s work
over again with the necessary additions.* In
accuracy, so far as we have observed, he has
succeeded in equalling his piedecessor ; in
completeness, perhaps because the field is so
much larger, possibly because he was too much
in a hurry to publish, he has fallen behind him ;
in method he has hardly improved upon him.
A subject bibliografy ought to be arranged
either 'alfabetically by subjects in dictionary
fashion, or systematically by subjects, as Petz-
holdt’s is. M. Vallee arranges his alfabeti-
cally by authors — that is, he has made not a
bibliografy of bibliografies, as he calls his
book,' but a bibliografy of bibliografers. It
was not wisely done. One seldom goes to such
a work to find out what books Peignot or
Brunet have written ; there are plenty of other
sources of that information. One goes there to
ascertain what bibliografies there are of chess
or angling, or of theology or the fine arts, or of
Moliere or Shakespeare. It is true that one can
do this in Vallee’s work, since he has an index
of subjects, as Petzholdt has an index of authors
and subjects. In fact, there is practically little
to choose between the two methods. Each has
its advantages and disadvantages. In the one
the larger subjects and their branches are treated
of in juxtaposition, in the other the works of
one author are in juxtaposition. In the German
work one who is in search of a special subject
looks in the index and is referred to a page
where all the titles appertaining to this subject
are given in full ; in the French work one finds
in the index all the titles of that particular sub-
ject, given with the greatest possible brevity, and
is referred to as many different pages as there
are titles to get the imprint, and number of
volumes, and full title. Practically therefore
the difference is not very great ; but as M. Vallee
alleges the novelty of his method as his sole
raison d'itre it is necessary to point out that the
reason is insufficient. For the world it would
have been as well if he had prepared a complete
supplement to Petzholdt in Petzholdt’s style in-
stead of republishing part of Petzholdt in a new
style with incomplete additions. For unfortu-
nately the additions are incomplete to an almost
inexplicable degree. In the “Bibliografy” of
a single volume of this journal (1881) we find
sixteen works overlooked by M. Vallee ; and
some of them, as will be seen, of considerable

* Bibliographie des bibliographies ; par Leon Vallee, de
la Bibliotheque Nationale. Paris, Em. Terquem, 1883.
6 + 773 + [i] P. 1. O.

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importance. They are : Hunnewell’s Bibliog-
raphy of Charlestown, Lacroix’s Recherches
bibliographiques sur les livres rares et curieux,
J: M. W, Lee’s Handlist of laws, journals, and
documents of Maryland, 1878, Putnam’s library
companion, Sutton’s G: Eliot, a bibliography,
Tree! well’s Monograph on privately illustrated
books, Lambert’s Angling literature in England,
Boelle van Hensbroek’s Beoefening der 00s-
tersche talen in Nederland, 1875, Winsor’s
Halliwell bibliography, Foster’s Literature of
civil service reform in the United States,
Fourtier’s Provins lettre, Freund’s Hodegetik,
Trilbner’s Books on Egypt, Cohn’s Shakespeare
Bibliographic, Cossa’s Guide to the study of
political economy, and the Bibliography of
political economy published by the Society for
Political Education, besides a number of such lists
as that in Magnin’s Bacteria. If these could
not be found by the author’s own industry they
might have at least have been copied out of our
columns.

And what is to be thought of a work coming
after Petzholdt and with his example to follow,
which does not mention such books as “ The
American catalogue,” and Kobus and Rive-
court’s Beknopt biographisches handwoorden-
boek and Van der Aa’s Biographisch woorden-
boek, both of great use in regard to Dutch
bibliography, and the South Kensington Museum
catalogue of art-books?*

In fact M. Vallee’s ideas of the amount of re-
search necessary to a bibliografer are inade-
quate. He says that he has marked with a star
the titles which he has compared with the works
themselves at the Bibliotheque Nationale, but
that the absence of the sign does not show that
the book is not there, because many volumes
were not in their place when he looked for them,
being lent to the public or in use by the officials.
The National Library is not one of circulation
but of reference ; the books therefore could not
be out of place long, and yet apparently when a
work was not on the shelf the first time he
sought it he did not look again !

This want of research is manifest in the treat-
ment of continuations. From this bibliografy,
one would not know that the Index medicus
survived its first volume or that the Library
journal outlasted 1881. Schwab and Klupfel’s
6th and 7th supplements to the 3d edition, their
4th edition in 1870, and the three supplements
to that published from 1870 to 1879 iiot
mentioned. M. Vallee had met with the title of
the 5th supplement in 1862, but he plainly made
no effort to see if anything more had appeared.
In fact, there could hardly be a better example
of the character popularly attributed to the two
nations, than the w^ay in which these indefati-
gable Germans labored on to make their work
perfect, and the way in which the Frenchman
did not find it out.

The treatment of the German library journal

* I could easily have enlarged the list of omissions, but
content myself with referring to a notice in the Nation for
June 21, where enough are enumerated to fully sustain
what I have said of the strange incompleteness of the book.

is not satisfactory. The new series may be
found under Neuer Anzeiger, but the old series
(said to be in 5 volumes instead of in 16, by the
way) is put under Petzholdt, the editor, and
there is no reference in either place. But it is
pleasant to see that, in the index of subjects
there are cross-references, which show that
right methods of work are extending into
France ; there are not enough, to be sure, as
is natural where the practice is new. While we
are on matters of form a protest may be made
against the objectionable fashion of cataloging
reports or proceedings of societies under the
first word, whatever it happens to be, as An-
nuaire. Annual, Annuario, Report, etc. Thus
for the issues of the Smithsonian Institution,
one must look under Annual and Stnithsonian
miscellaneous collections, the Royal Society’s
catalogue of scientific papers appears under
Catalogue. There is a little clumsiness in the
treatment of the Bibliotheca Latina of Fabricius,
which is repeated in full five times (and counts
as so many numbers), because the titles of the
different volumes have some slight differences,
which could just as well have been described in
a note. Dibdin’s Herbert’s Ames is entered
twice in full, once under Ames and once under
Dibdin, which as the title is fifteen lines long is
a little wasteful. (Maitland’s index to this work,
called List of early English printers, is not men-
tioned.) The 42 editions of the Index librorum
prohibitorum are entered separately in full
(alfabetically and not chronologically, which is of
doubtful expediency) ; so that the total number
of titles, 6894, must not be understood as show-
ing the number of separate works recorded.

So much for objections. Per contra it must
be said that the printing is admirable, that the
work of 4he copyist and the proof-reader has
been very carefully done, that with all its omis-
sions the book contains a collection of titles of
the bibliografies of the last twenty years such as
is to be found nowhere else, that when it is,
completed by the supplement which M. Vallee
half promises it will be extremely useful ; and
that all libraries which pay any attention to
bibliografy will buy it as they formerly bought
Petzholdt or Brunet, or as they are now buying
Halkett and Laing. C: A. C.

COMPLETING SETS OF PERIODICALS.

With the addition of Poole’s Index to our
library the use of periodicals increased at once.
Many of the sets of periodicals were incomplete,
and there were frequent calls for articles, when
we did not have the volume wanted. A gentle-
man interested in the library suggested that
many citizens of Poughkeepsie had magazines
and periodicals which they might not desire
to keep and if given to the library would
complete some of our sets. Acting on this
suggestion, about the middle of March I
prepared a circular under the direction of the
Library Committee, stating our wants, giving a
list of the periodicals we had, and requesting
donations. I mailed about 500 of these among

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our citizens and also published a copy in each
of the daily papers. The result is very gratify-
ing. We have already received over two hundred
volumes of magazines and periodicals, and many
more are promised. Three or four incomplete
sets have been made complete, and large ad-
ditions made to others. There have been some
duplicates received, but these we can sell or ex-
change for others needed.

Doubtless any library can add to its incomplete
sets of periodicals in a similar manner. I make
the suggestion for the benefit of those who have
not tried this plan, hoping that many magazines
and periodicals now lying neglected in garrets
and store-rooms may find a permanent home and
a new career of usefulness in some of our well-
conducted libraries.

John C. Sickley, Librarian.

Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Public Library.

SPECIFICATIONS FOR BINDING.

After considerable experimenting the follow-
ing specifications have been found to answer the
purpose best.

Binding done in accordance with them is, I
think, more durable than any other kind now
used, and has moreover the advantages of open-
ing very freely and of costing no more than the
ordinary library binding now generaly used.
Peoria, III. F. J. Soldan.

SPECIFICATIONS FOR BINDING BOOKS FOR PEORIA
PUBLIC LIBRARY.

1. In pulling books apart care should be taken
not to injure the backs.

2. Each book must be carefully collated, all
single leaves and pictures securely pasted in,
and all torn pages should be thoroughly repaired
with onion paper.

3. Books from which either title-page, leaves, or
pictures are missing must not be bound, except
by special instructions.

4. In pasting in leaves or pictures the paste
should not be tipped on with the finger, but with
the brush on the pasting board, and with a piece
of waste paper over the leaf or picture the re-
quired distance from the edge to be pasted, so
that the paste is deposited evenly in a straight
line.

5. After the leaves and pictures have been past-
ed in, the books should be placed in the press for
one night.

Sewing.

6. The books are to be sewed on linen tapes
of an inch wide, and there should be used for i2mo
volumes at least 2 tapes, and if they are thicker
than Yi. inch 3 tapes ; for 8voand larger volumes
4 or more tapes.

7. In cutting apart there should be left at least
2^ inches of tape on each side of the book.
The first and last sections and the waste papers
should be overcast with muslin, and each section
be sewed “all along” with the best Marshall

thread. The begining of the threactmust be care-
fully secured, and as each thread is terminated
it must be securely and neatly joined to another
and the ends cut off.

8. The back of the book must not be cut off for
whip-stitching, except when the book is worn too
much to be sewed in the regular way, and in
such case the consent of the librarian must be
obtained.

9. Each section should be opened up to the
back in order that all leaves be caught in sewing.

10. Each volume should be provided with two
waste papers.

Trimming.

11. Not more of the margin of the book should
be trimmed off than the rough dirty edge, leaving
the book as large as possible. Books with nar-
row margins should be trimmed on top only, and
if the top margin is too narrow it should not be
trimmed at all.

12. In glueing, the glue should not be too thick,
but very hot, and must be well rubbed in between
the sections.

13. The back should be rounded when the glue
is cool, but before it is hard.

14. The boards are to be Davey’s tar boards,
and for i2mo or 8vo volumes which are thin-
ner than I inch No. 25 should be used ; for
thicker or larger volumes No. 20 or heavier.

15. The tapes must be passed through slits in
the boards, cut the size of the tape from the inside
to the outside, and securely glued down on both
sides and well hammered.

16. The book should then be pressed with tins
between boards and book.

17. The backs of books should then be washed
with thin paste and allowed to stand for a few
minutes to permit the glue to soften, then rubbed
off carefully and allowed to dry.

18. All books to have loose spring backs.

19. The lining should then be put on the back of
books one on and two off, or on larger volumes
two on and two off.

Morocco binding.

20. Books to have from 4 to 5 raised bands
according to size.

21. Use for backs and corners genuine morocco
of the color ordered ; thin skins to be used for
small Avork to avoid clumsiness and heavier
skins for large books. The leather must be
carefully pared round the edges so as to leave
no raised joints when pasted down.

22. The sides must be covered with the best
“ Gustav ” marble paper, A\’hich must be glued to
the boards.

23. All books bound in this style to have silk
headbands, comb marble waste papers, and
sprinkled edges. The. backs to be finished with
extra deep gold, with lines on top and on each
side of every band, small ornaments in each
field, and lettering according to instruction.

24. In gilding, the leather is to be moistened
with vinegar, then pencilled with glaire, and when
dry rubbed off with a piece of oiled cotton-wool.

Jufie, '83.]

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FORM

OF BID.

WITHOUT

LETTERING.

Morocco Binding

Cloth Binding.

Hf. Roan Bind’g

Cloth Binding, j

H£. Roan Bind’g

BOOKS.

in.
thick,
or le.ss.

Thicker

i*/4 in.
thick,
or less.

Thicker

-iVt. in.
thick,
or less.

Thicker

1^4 in.
thick,
or less.

Thicker

in.
thick,
or less.

Thicker

nYz in. high,

“

loK “

13 “

Cloth bindings.

25. The whole book to be covered with silk
grained diagonal English cloth fastened with
glue. Plain waste papers, calico headbands, open
spring back, without raised bands, gilding or
lettering.

26. When thoroughly dry, books must be
pressed again.

Half roan bindings.

27. On work and trimmings same as cloth work,
except that the back and corners are not to be
covered with cloth, but with straight-grained
roan, carefully pared down on the edges and
the sides with marble paper. There is to be no
gilding on the back except author, title, and
class-number.

NEW LIBRARY LAWS IN MASSACHU-
SETTS.

[1883, chap. 81.]

An Act for the better protection of property of
certain libraries.

Be it enacted . . . :

Section 1. Whoever wilfully and maliciously,
or wantonly and without cause, writes upon, in-
jures, defaces, tears, or destroys a book, plate,
picture, engraving, map, newspaper, magazine,
pamphlet, manuscript, or statue belonging to a
law, town, city, or other public or incorporated
library, shall be punished by a fine of not less
than five nor more than fifty dollars, or by im-
prisonment in the jail not exceeding six months.

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect upon its pas-
sage.

[1883, chap. 77.]

An Act to prevent the wilful detention of
books, newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, or
manuscripts of certain libraries.

Be it enacted ...

Section i. Whoever wilfully and maliciously,
or wantonly and without cause, detains any
book, newspaper, magazine, pamphlet, or manu-

script, belonging to a law, town, city, or other
'public or incorporated library, for thirty days
after notice in writing, from the librarian of
such library, given after the expiration of the
time which, by the regulations of such library,
such book, newspaper, magazine, pamphlet, or
manuscript may be kept, shall be punished by a
fine of not less than one nor more than twenty-
five dollars, or by imprisonment in the jail not
exceeding six months.

Sec. 2. The notice required by the foregoing
section shall bear upon its face a copy of this
act.

Sec. 3. This act shall take effect upon its pas-
sage.

PUBLIC DOCUMENTS.

Rev. J. G. Ames, Superintendent of docu-
ments, wrote on May 23, to Mr. S. B. Noyes,
Librarian of the Brooklyn Library, that “a
number of the documents belonging to the 46th
Congress are still in the hands of the public
printer. Under the present system, it is very
difficult to secure the early binding of these
documents. Many of them are printed and
stored, awaiting the convenience of the binder.

“ By special efforts on my own part I have
secured the binding in leather of the Compendium
of the census much in advance of its regular
order. The ist volume was received 3 days
ago, and I am looking for the 2d volume every
hour, when depositories throughout the country
will be at once supplied with this document.
Whether I can secure the advance binding of
the quarto volumes of the census reports as they
are issued is quite uncertain.

“ I hope that there may be some reform in
the matter of binding the leather edition, if we
succeed in securing any reform regarding public
documents at the next session of Congress.
This will, I think, be accomplished if the prin-
cipal librarians of the country would unite in
petitioning Congress to give early attention to.
this matter, and I trust that they will not fail to
do so early next winter, and continue their ef-
forts until Congress acts in the matter.”

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\June, ’83.

?iibrari) lEcouotnB antt l^istovg.

Bihlioteca Naz. di Palermo. Ricordo del
priino centenario. Palermo, tip. dello statute,
1883. 67+i6+i6_|_84 p. 8®.

Bulmer, J. T. The provincial library. (In
Morning Herald, Halifax, May 9.)

In a letter to the Evening Mail, Halifax, May
4, Mr. Bulmer had related how the Library
Commissioners a year ago appointed a cata-
loger, whom he believed to be incompetent,
and how, as they paid no attention to his re-
monstrances, he resigned his post of librarian.
In the present article he states that they closed
the library for nearly eight months to allow it
to be cataloged, that they have reported the
catalog to the Legislature as “having been
made on the most approved principles,” but that
to him “ there does not seem to have been any
reference to works on the subject of cataloguing.
Under ‘Annual’ we have 33 entries; under
‘ Reports,’ 104 ; under ‘ Catalogue,’ 31 ; under
‘Laws,’ 24; and under ‘Journals,’ 60. This
certainly belongs to the dark ages of cataloguing.

‘ Ambition’s dream’ has no reference whatever
to the learned author. Dr. Cogswell, ‘ Mephi-
bosheth Stepsure,’ a classic in its day, is ignored
altogether. The Prayer-book is put in as a
‘ Book of common prayers.’ The following are
samples of entries which are to be found in
abundance : ‘ A la vallie,’ ‘ Contes et recets,’ ‘ A
mes enfants. ’ No mention whatever is made of-
many volumes of the ‘ Recorder,’ and nearly all
the books in foreign languages are omitted alto-
gether, The ‘ Afflicted man’s companion ’ is an
oasis at which one rests before starting for ‘ Al-
manacs of different colonies.’ Think of a fine
edition of Tasso’s ‘ Jerusalem delivered ’ entered
under ‘ La Gerusalemme.’ The works of Caesar,
Suetonius, and Tacitus are entered under ‘ Caii,’
‘C.,’ and ‘ C. Cornelii,’ respectively. Now,
while the learned cataloguer may have felt suf-
ficiently acquainted with these three classic his-
torians to feel justified in addressing them by
their first names with the familiarity of a fellow-
schoolboy, he is, we think, incorrect in assuming
that those who frequent the library are entitled
to the same freedom. Besides it is by no means
clear that Caesar would condescend to notice any
one who would call him ‘ Caii.’ Hamlet when
he spoke of the dust of imperious Caesar stopping
a hole to keep the wind away, did not picture
the deepest degradation of greatness. A parallel
to this would be to catalogue a well-known bi-
ography of Chief Justice Haliburton under
‘George W.’ Des Cartes is under ‘ Renati,’
and the Bible under ‘ Holy.’ ”

Christie, R: Copley. The Marquis de Mo-
rante, his library and its catalogue. (In Man-
chester quarterly, Apr.)

“ 13 June, 1868, there died at Madrid the most
eminent bibliophile that Spain has produced, the
collector of by far the most extensive private li-

brary that has ever been found in the Peninsula,
or that has anywhere been collected in the 19th
century,” 21,021 articles in over 120,000 vol-
umes. “ His income for many years before his
death was about ;[^5ooo per annum, two thirds of
which he spent on his library. His library was
placed in three magnificent halls paved with
marble, which he had built for the purpose.
There from morning till night the marquis might
be found, wearing a short jacket of coarse tick-
ing, with a pair of old slippers on his feet. This
dress he found the most convenient, and it was
never changed. Visitors would generally find
him at the top of a lofty ladder, partly arranging
and partly reading his books. , . . During
the latter part of his life he was deaf, irritable,
and with a perpetual cold in the head, caused by
passing his whole time in the cold galleries of
his library. . . . He died, 59 years old, from
the effects of a fall from a ladder in his library.’’

Edmands, J; New system of classification and
scheme for numbering books applied to the
Mercantile Library of Philadelphia. Phila.,
1883. 29 p, 1. O,

Reprinted from the bulletin of the library.

Hoyt P. L., East Saginaw, Mich. Trust deed
from W: L. Webber, executor of Jesse Hoyt.
East Saginaw, 1883. 8 p. O.

Machon, L:, curd de la paroisse du Tourne, 1662.
Discours pour servir de regie ou d’avis aux
bibliothecaires, aug, d’une notice sur Machon
et sur la bibliotheque du premier president
Arnaud de Pontac, par Daspit de Saint-Ar-
mand. (2e fasc. of t. 3 of the Melanges of the
Societe des Bibliophiles de Guyenne, Bordeaux,
Gounouilhou, 1883, 8°.)

See Polybiblion, Avr., p. 373,

Mercantile Lib. of Phila. Bulletin, vol. i,
no. 3. n.p., Apr. i, 1883. 57-70 p. 1. O.
Contains the numbering scheme used in locat-
ing books, in which the alfabet receives num-
bers from I to 10,000. The table is made in leaps
of 20, thus :

Aa 1-20 Abe
Abf 21-40 Aez
Ada 41-60 Aer

and so on. There is also a notice to readers
thus conceived :

“ Duties of the libjwian. — Much of the time
of the principal librarian is, of necessity, taken
up in superintending the general affairs of the
Library, and in doing work which specially de-
volves on him. It is, however, one of the most
important parts of his duty to assist members in
their search for books and for information in
connection with their reading and study. And
he desires all persons to feel and to exercise the
utmost freedom in calling upon him for any as-
sistance or advice which he may be thought to
be able to give. John Edmands, Librarian.”

fttne, ’83.]

THE LIBRARY JOURNAL.

Providence {R. I.) Libraries. Periodicals
currently taken in the libraries and reading-
rooms. Prov., 1883. 8 p. O.

Eleven libraries have unite'd to issue this list
of 219 periodicals, with an added list of 19 “ not
now taken, vvhich would naturally be looked
for somewhere in the city.” Of the 219, 8 are
French and 16 German.

Abstracts of and extracts f rom reports. •
Friends' Free Library, Germantown, Pa. In 8
years, during which the total number of volumes
has increased from 5600 to 10,801, the number of
readers has grown from 600 to 1600, a good
showing for a library entirely without fiction.
More room for books is the chief want now.

A/alden {Mass.) P. L. (Total 7705, issue 37,397,
per cent of fiction 71.10.) “Care has been
taken, in the purchase of books, to exclude the
pernicious and trifling, and to place upon the
shelves the best literature ; and we have endeav-
ored to make it as free to the people as a proper
regard to its preservation will allow. The re-
sult of this care is that, while our circulation
compares favorably with that of other libraries,
our collection is not marred by the presence of
sensational and immoral books, and we have es-
caped the operation of that wholesale ‘ weeding
out ’ process which has taken place in many li-
braries during the past two or three years.”

Philadelphia Library Co. Added 1638 v. ; is-
sued 39,889 ; catalog cards written, 33,212 ;
total number in catalog, 139,723. The library
is now opened on Sunday, from i to 6 p.m. An
average of 171 visitors have consulted 24 books
a Sunday.

Melvil Dewey, the newly appointed librarian
of Columbia College, has prepared a statement
of the work most needed in the library at pres-
ent, and $5000 has been appropriated toward
the expense of putting it in proper shape. Mr.
Dewey has recommended that for safety and
for business reasons the five libraries and
duplicates, embracing 50,000 volumes, should
be properly classified in the new library build-
ing, the worn books being bound and repaired ;
that all the college publications should be col-
lected ; that there should be an alphabetical
catalogue of all the libraries, a subject catalogue,
and a complete table of the classification with a
minute alphabetical index of subjects ; that the
library, which is now kept open fifteen hours a
week during term time, should be open from
8 a.m. to 10 p.m. throughout the year, vaca-
tions and holidays included ; and that compe-
tent librarians should be employed to give needed
help and suggestions in the various departments.
An appropriation of $7800 was also recommend-
ed to be used in employing assistant librarians
and assistants in the loan, accession, binding
and repair, catalogue and shelf, departments,
three pages and a woman for office work — in all,
eight women, four men, and three boys. — N. Y,
Tribune, June 5.

109

Uifeliografg.

Beijers, J. L. Utrecht i Catalogus van boek-
en te Utrecht gedrukt v66r 1800 | 2 ...

boeken geschreven door hoogleeraren aan de
Utrechtsche Universiteit sedert 1800, verkrijg-
baar. Utrecht, [1883]. 2 pm. 112 p. O.

Bibliopolist notes. [N. Y.,] J. Sabin’s son.
May, 1883. 7 p. O.

2 p. of prices at the Harris sale and 5 p. of

books for sale, etc.

Bohn, Emil. Bibliographie d. Musik-Druck-
werke bis 1700 welche in d. Stadtbibliothek,
d. Bib. des ak. Inst. f. Kirchenmusik, u. d. K.
u. Univ. Bib. zu Breslau aufbewahrt werden.
Berlin, Cohn, 1883. 8+450 p. 8°. 14 m.

” Ein recht werthvolles Geschenk.” — Lit.

Centralbl., col. 624.

Celeste, R. Essai de bibliog. sur les anciens
voyageurs a Bordeaux. (In Rulhiere, C. C.
de. Lettre in6d. sur le voyage du ducde Rich-
elieu, Bordeaux, Gounouilhou, 1883, 8®,

150+36 p.)

Davidson, T; Bibliography. (Pages li-
Ixxxviii of Rosmini-Serbati, A. Philos,
system, L., 1882, 8®.)

Edmond, J. P. Bibliography of the sculptured
stones of Scotland. (In the Antiquary, Apr.,
p. 185-189.)

Gracklauer, O. Augenheilkunde 1867-83.
Lpz., Gracklauer, 1883. 49 p. 8*^. 1.60 m.

Huart, C. Bibliographie ottomane, notice des
livres turcs, arabes, et persans imprimes a
Constantinople, 1297-98 de I’hegire (1880-81).
Paris, Leroux, 1883. 48 p. 8°.

Repr. from the Journal asiatique.

Matthews, J. Brander. Courses of reading
on special subjects : The drama. (In the
Critic, May 12.) 3 col.

Remsen, Ira. Courses of reading in special
subjects : Chemistry. (In the Critic, April
14.)

The Sunday question in literature. (In the
Lndex, March 15.)

Granges de Surg^res, le marquis de. Traduc-
tions en langues etrangeres des Reflexions ou
Sentences et maximes de La Rochefoucauld ;
essai bibliographique. Paris, L. Techener,
1883. 32 p. 8®.

From the Bulletin du bibliophile. Noticed by

^Im. Picot in the Revue critique, 23 avr., p. 331-

334-

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{June, ’83.

The Literary world, March 24, p. 92, has an
index of the Bibliographies which have ap-
peared in its pages.

Rev. J. F. Clark has prefixed to v. 2 of his
‘Ten great religions ’a list of the . principal
books on the subject for young students.

Mr. W. Whitaker, the recognized bibliog-
rapher of geological science, publishes [in the
7th vol. of the Transactions of the Cumberland
Soc. for the Advancement of Literature and
Science] one of his extensive lists of works on
local geology, going back to 1693. — Ath,

Mr. E. Solly reprints in the February
Bibliographer Wagstaffe’s list of the various
editions of the “ Eikon Basilike,” and indicates
some not contained in it, with a view to as per-
fect an enumeration as possible and a determi-
nation of the order. Even the first edition cannot
be identified with certainty.

Catalogs.

Boston P. L. Bulletin, Vol. 5, no. 6, n. /.,
Apr. 1883, 285-344 P- 1- O-

Commences an index to the American local
history contained in serial historical publica-
tions and in state and county histories. The
list of books referred to fills 6 p. 4^ p. more
bring the alfabet to Ayer. There is also a note
on the Shakespeare-Bacon question and a list of
20 encylopaedias.

Delisle, Leopold. Anciens catalogues de livres
imprimes de la Bibliotheque du Roi. (In Bi-
bliotheque de VEcole des Charles, v. 43, p. 165-
I79-)

K. offentl. Bibliothek, Dresderi. Verzeich-
niss d. neuen Werke, 1882 ; von P. E. Rich-
ter. Dresd., Burdach [1883]. 55 p. 1. 8®,

1.50 m.

This list, hitherto published by Richter at his
own expense, has now been undertaken by a pub-
lisher, a proof, says Petzholdt, first that it has
been profitable, and secondly (since no one would
buy it who did not use the library) that the at-
tack upon the library by Prof. E. Engel, of Berlin,
as hardly used is unfounded.

St. James’ Meth. Epis. Church Sunday-
School L., Elizabeth, N. J. Catalogue, May,
1883. 60 p. Tt.

A title catalog, in large type, followed by
(in smaller type) a partial author catalog, a par-
tial classified catalog, a useful list of books that
have sequels, a list of connected stories in sets,
and another of books in sets not connected. In
the catalog the grade of the book is noted by
initials [I] Intermediate, under 12, [J] Juniors,
12-15 ; [SJ Seniors, 15-18 ; [A] Adults, over 18.
A manila book-cover sent to us with the catalog
shows that the grade letter is put also on the
back of each volume.

The Boston Athenaum List of Additions,
no. loi, enumerates the periodicals currently
taken, 265 in number, giving time of issue, edi-
tor’s name, date of the first volume which the li-
brary owns, and occasionally brief descriptive
notes.

Prof. Bolton’s Catalogue of scientific and
technical periodicals (1665-1882) is now in the
press and the Smithsonian Institution is sending
out proofs to various libraries with the request
that the librarian will check the titles of those
which his library possesses either c (complete)
or inc. (incomplete) ; so that when the Cata-
logue is printed we shall have a list of the scien-
tific periodicals in all the larger libraries in the
country.

Full Names. — Marvin Richardson Vincent
(In the shadow of the Pyrenees) ; W: Ireland
Knapp (A grammar of the modern Spanish lan-
guage) ; J: C; Van Dyke (Books and how to use
them) ; Lewis Ezra Hicks (A critique of design-
arguments) ; Horace Milton Kennedy (transla-
tor of Brink’s “Early English literature”);
Isaac Hughes Elliott (Record of the services of
Illinois soldiers in the Black Hawk war) ; W:
Babcock Weeden (The social law of labor) ; Mrs.
Catharine Forrester Ashmead Windle (Address
to the new Shakspere society of London) ; Caro-
line Maria Hewins (Books for the young) ; W:
Whittingham Olssen (Personality ; human and
divine) ; R: Price Hallowell (The Quaker inva-
sion of Massachusetts).

Indexes.

We must call attention under this head to the
very full index to American local history con-
tained in the Bulletin of the Boston Public Li-
brary for April.

Mr. Griswold has in press as no. 13 of the
Q. P. indexes an index of collections of essays.
The Key to volumes indexed will fill 7 pp., and
the Index in 6 pp. reaches Bullock.

anonyms auli ^scuIionBms.

Conseils a ma fille. et a inon ^endre, Paris,
V. Palme, 1865, 33 p., 18°, was by Yolan. Marie
Rene, vcte de Saint-Mauris. — Polybiblion.

Defense de la constitution du pape Innocent x,
n. d., 1655. 2 pt., paged contin., 288 p. 4®, is by
M. de Lalane. — InterniMiaBe, 25 jan., col. 42.

De7nocracy is now attributed to Mrs. H:
Adams. — Lit. world, Apr. 21.

Golden rod. — The Harpers announce that
Mrs. Burton N. Harrison is the author of the
novels ‘‘Golden Rod” and ‘‘Helen Troy,” in
their Half-hour series.

Guerndale, by ‘‘J. S. of Dale,” the novel of
college life published last autumn by Messrs.
Scribner, is now accredited to F: J. Stimson, a
Harvard graduate of ’76, and a practising law-
yer in Boston.

June, '83.]

THE LIBRARY JOURNAL.

Ill

ATr. and Mrs. Morton, a novel, Boston, Cup-
pies, Upham & Co., 1S83, is attributed to Dr.
and to Mrs. Harold Williams.

Mr. Jacobs [a burlesque on Mr. Isaacs], Bos-
ton, 18S3, is by Arlo Bates.

Myron Holley, Boston, 1882, is by Elizur
Wright.

The priest and the man; or, Abelard and Heloisa,
a novel, Boston, Cupples, Upham & Co., 1883,
is by W: Wilberforce Newton.

Rosier des g7ierres. — J: Kaulek discusses in the
Revue historique, Mars-avril, p. 312-322, the
question whether this manual of education for
the use of the dauphin Charles was written by
Louis XI., and decides in the negative, ascrib-
ing it rather to Pierre Choinet, medecin astrolo-
gien du roi.

A Tallahassee girl. — “ An obliging interviewer
of the Mobile Register^ says the N. Y. Times,
“ has discovered that the novel called ‘ A Talla-
hassee girl,’ was written by Mr. Barton D.
Jones, ‘a Northern gentleman,’ and that the
vivacious heroine js no other than Miss Norie
Long, the daughter of a late governor of Florida. ' ’

Arrom. — At a certain library a reader recom-
mended the purchase of “ Bible myths. Anon.,
N. Y.” His writing was not exactly copper-
plate and the clerk interpreted it “ Bible myths,
Arrom, N. E.” When the anonymus book came
it was naturally catalogued under Arrom, and
the reviewer was on the point of sending a note
of the discovery to this column of the Library
journal, when it luckily occurred to him to in-
vestigate his authority for the ascription.

Dario Gaddi, ps. of Domenico Gnoli, an Ital-
ian poet of the last decade.

Edward Winslow Martin, ps. of James D.
McCabe, in “ History of the Grange movement,”
Chicago, 1874.

Eugene Owl. — “ Old Nick’s camp-meetin’,
by Eugene Owl, Satchel series, N. Y., [1880],”
was by T: Pilgrim, of Gonzales, Texas. Mr.
Pilgrim died there March ii, 1882. — D. H.

Eurotas, ps. of Gustave Claudin in the “ Let-
tres du lundi,” of the Moniteur wiiversel.

J. N. — Leaves ; [poems by] J[ohn] N[ichol].
Edin., 1854.

Jeanne Mairet, ps. of Mme. Charles Bigot,
the daughter of the American artist, Healey,
who has been awarded 500 francs by the French
Academy, being a third of the Jouy. prize, for
her novel “ Marca.”

John Junior, a ps. signed to the weekly biog-
rafies in Vanity Fair by the editor of that paper,
T; Gibson Bowles.

Le jeune moraliste (Z. j., 6 : 214). — In Inter-
mMiaire, 25 jan., col. 44, C. J.-B., of New York,
gives reasons for believing that the jeune mora-
liste was not Em. Deschamps, but a certain Saint-
Prosper.

Le Marquis de M., ps. of M. Molse Schwab
in Melanges bibliographiques, Marseille, 1880
{^Lib. j., 6 : 210).

Masque de fer, ps. of P: Gille in Figaro.

Philo Scotus, ps. of J. B. Ainslie in Remi-
niscences of a Scottish gentleman, London,
1861. — Notes and q., Dec. 30, p. 546.

Verus, ps. of Don Luis Onis, Spanish minis-
ter plenipotentiary, in three papers on the
cession of Florida, in 1810, 1812, and 1817.
The title of the last is “Observations on the
existing differences between the government of
Spain and the United States. No. 3. Philadel-
phia, 1817.” Don Onis acknowledges the au-
thorship and prints a Spanish version of the
papers in his “ Memoria sobre las negociationes
entre Espafia y los Estados-Unidos de America
que dieron motive al tratado de 1819. Madrid,
1820.”

iHotcs ant) ©ucdes.

Please handle
with care.

I FIND the above little stamp to be very pre-
servativ of maps, charts, etc. S. B. N.

At the Bodleian, Mr. Nicholson has issued
the following Notice :

“ All persons having the right of reading in
the library (or the camera only), and being en-
gaged in the study of any special subject, are
invited to communicate with the librarian, who
will endeavor to inform them without delay
whenever any work bearing on the subject of
their study is added to the library.”

Such information is regularly furnished at
several libraries in this country ; but we do not
remember evrer having seen public notice given
of the practice ; though evidently that must be
done before the public will generally avail them-
selves of the privilege.

At first the Boston Public Library catalogued
its books, but did not “analyze” them. After a
time it introduced a more and more complete
analysis. That is to say, under Mr. Jewett and
Mr. Jillson no notice was taken in the subject
part of the catalogue of anything less than a
volume. There might be a treatise of several
hundred pages, by a Macaulay, a Tyndall, a
Spencer, but if it did not fill a volume by itself
it could not be referred to. Mr. Winsor changed
all this by the notes in his class lists of History
and of Historical fiction, so far as those subjects
were concerned. Mr. Perkins extended the
practice to Philosophy, and Mr. Chamberlain to
Art, in his Notes on the Renaissance. It has
now been applied with great thoroughness to
American local history in a list of which the
first instalment appeared in the April Bulletin.
Bnt none of these appeared in the general
catalog, as such references do in the few other
libraries where much analysis is practised ; they
belonged to a supplementary s\stem of special
catalogs. Mr. Chamb' rlain has now introduced

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a practice which brings such references into the
main card catalog. He puts an initial biblio-
grafical card under every title, thus ;

Browning, Robert, list of his writings.
Literary world, March 14, 1882. 5341, 3.

In this way puon the very first card under any sub-
ject, the public get the literature of the subject.

One wants the literature of a subject — Botany,
Evolution, Scotch metaphysics. National banks —
and one has a general recollection that it is found
in the Providence monthly lists, or Harvard, or
somewhere, and this somewhere involves much
search. Now one can ask the attendant for the bib-
liography of National banks. He goes straight
for the first card under that subject, takes the
shelf no., and in two minutes the book is in hand.

References are made to classes in the li-
brary’s own catalogues, to Mr, Foster’s serial
notes, to the Ticknor catalogue, and in fact to
every place which will put the literature of any
subject in the immediate possession of the reader.

The plan may be indefinitely extended and
yet add only a few thousand cards to the cases.
If there is a good resume of any subject, as evo-
lution, in any review or book, it can be referred
to on this initial card.

Practically the same thing has been done, though
in slightly different methods, at the libraries of
Harvard College, the Boston Athenaeum, and
Rochester University. It is pleasant to see the
practice of analysis extending.

The following is printed on the book-covers
used in the Sunday-school library of the St.
James’ Methodist Episcopal Church, Elizabeth,
N. J., C: P. Cheney, librarian :

Why read. Read to develop the mind which
God has given you, for the benefit of your
fellow-beings.

“ How to read. One book slowly read and
well understood will be worth more to you than
ten carelessly skimmed over. Make a memo-
randum of any item in your reading that you do
not understand, and study it out. Reflect, write,
and converse on what you read.

“ What to read. Exclusive newspaper or
magazine reading is ruinous. Read good books —
standard books. Cultivate a taste for a higher
class of reading than that which you now enjoy.
Confine yourself to the best company. At the
most you can become acquainted with but a very
few of the vast multitude of books that have
been written. It is nearly ah axiom that people
will not be better than the books they read.
Avoid a book of bad influence as you would a
dose of poison. Whatever helps you to under-
stand your fellow-man, or awakens your faith
in nobleness and heroism, is good reading ;
whatever chills your enthusiasm for virtue, or
sneers at faith and fervor, is bad reading. Re-
ligious reading is a help to a religious life.
Attend to it daily as a matter of duty. Above
all books read the Bible — regularly and thought-
fully. The life and character of our blessed
Lord should be the study of our life. Ask your
parents and teachers to help you in the choice
of books.”.

\June, *83.

Eitcraturc for Hje l^oung.

Edited by Miss C. M. Hewins, Librarian of
Hartford Library Association.

Notes and suggestions, from various sources, on read-
ing and the best use of books, are to be included in this
department.

* The asterisk before a title indicates that further
information ivill be found in the “ Purchase List."

*7Esop’s fables.

Like all Caldecott’s work, good for all ages. Admirable
drawings of birds, beasts, and fishes, with clever satirical
figure-drawings for tail-pieces.

*Bird, Isabella L. The golden Chersonese.
Cobb, Ja. F. Martin, the skipper : a tale for
boys and seafaring folk. N. Y., Crowell. D.
$1.50.

“A very engaging story of the life of a seaman.” — Luth-
eran observer.

Cobb, Ja. F The watchers on the Longships,
N. Y., Crowell. D. $1.50.

Holt, Emily S. Not for him ; the story of a
forgotten hero. N. Y,, Carter, D. $1.25.

A tale of the 13th century. The “ forgotten hero ” is
Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, a cousin of Edward I.
Ireland, Mary E. Timothy ; his neighbors
and his friends. Phil,, Lippincott, D. $1.50.

” Narrates the varied experiences of a Baltimore newsboy,
and is written in a lucid manner, characterized by practical
common-sense. ” — Independent.

*Russell, W. Clark. A sea queen.

“ One of the best stories he has produced. It is sup-
posed to be related by the heroine, and is marked by power
and intensity in its plot and by vivid force in its character
drawing. Its realism is remarkable, especially in connection
with its sea pictures, which are among the very finest to be
found in nautical ^c\\ovi." —Boston Gazette.

” In his account of the early life of his heroine, Jessie,
he [very prettily furnishes a nautical glossary which ren-
ders subsequent chapters easier reading to those who other-
wise might fail to comprehend."— Chicago Tribune.

Sanford, Mrs. D. P. From May to Christmas
at Thorne Hill, N. Y., Dutton, sq. D, $2.

A story of wholesome, happy country life for children
from eight to twelve years old.

Roberts, Margaret. In the olden time. N. Y.,
Holt. S. $i ; pap., 25 c,

A story of the peasant war in Germany about 1523, A
good historical [novel for girls of fifteen or sixteen, by the
author of ” Mademoiselle Mori” and ” Noblesse oblige.”
See also the note under Purchase List.

*Stearns, W. a. New England bird-life.
ZiMMERN, Helen. Tales from the Edda with
illustrations by Kate Greenaway and others.
Lond., W. Swan, Sonnenschein & Co.

“ The illustrations are very good, and the volume has only
one fault, though it is a good one — it is far too short. The
volume will form a capital introduction to the study of
Norse mythology.” — Literary world (London).

Notes and Suggestions.

Books for Young People. — An attempt has
been made by the conductors of The Christian
Union to secure what may be termed, in the
slang of the day, ‘‘a consensus of opinion” as
to the qualities and characteristics of the best
literature for young people. The authors whose
opinions are evoked at the invitation of the
editors of The Christian Union are Horatio Al-
ger, Jr., Frank H. Converse, Eliot McCormick,
Charles Barnard, and J. T. Trowbridge. These

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gentlemen ought to know what sort of books are
best for young people. Nearly all of them spend
their lives in writing what they consider to be the
very best books ever written for boys and girls.
The symposium, however, will be incomplete
until we hear from grown people who consume,
but do not produce, literature for the young. It
would be desirable to hear from parents and
guardians; possibly a “consensus” from the
boys and girls would be instructive. Mr. Ham-
ilton W. Mabie leads the column of commenta-
tors with what may be described as an elaborate
essay on the advantages of an early familiarity
with the best literature. He does not so much
discuss books expressly designed for children as
books which, although meant for the enrich-
ment of all human thought, may be safely and
even profitably allowed in the childish grasp of
the boy or girl who has “ tumbled about in a li-
brary.” Mr. Mabie, evidently, does not highly
approve of books written for young people.
He thinks that what is good enough for grown
folks is good enough for their children. ‘ ‘ Robin-
son Crusoe,” “ Tangle wood tales,” and “ Gulli-
ver’s travels,” are among the English classics
to which old and young may safely resort.

Mr. Horatio Alger, Jr., appears to believe
that young people should be allowed large liber-
ty in choosing their own reading, and should
not be kept in leading-strings too long. He does
not approve of the arbitrary repression of a boy’s
natural taste. If the young reader thirsts for
tales of gore, rapine, and crime gilded with hero-
ism, then his taste should not be arbitrarily re-
pressed by those who consider the “ Memoir of
Harriet Newell,” or the “Guide to the thought-
ful” superior to all other publications intended
for the young. Mr. Alger very justly says that
” a young man ought not to be satisfied with the
same class of books which he enjoyed when a
boy.” This is a safe saying, but it throws no
light whatever upon the theme submitted to the
symposiasts. Mr. Charles Barnard has a great
opinion of magazines for young people, these
costly publications being likened in his mind to
the heavy siege-guns that are brought to bear
against the armies of ignorance, while the church
and the school are small arms. Mr. Barnard
thinks that the children are imaginative and
dramatic. They should have in literature sto-
ries which are logical, progressive, and symmet-
rical as a drama, and which unfold a good les-
son, more or less distinctly projected on the
canvas. This is getting down to practical de-
tails. But Mr. Frank H. Converse returns to the
somewhat misty discussion with which Mr. Mabie
opens the symposium. He does not so much
discuss what young people should read as what
they do read. So far as his individual opinion
is exhibited he inclines to favor great freedom
in a young person’s choice of books and read-
ing. If the boy does not affect the highest kind
of literature (that designed for his elders) and is
not permitted to take the next best, he will find
secret solace in the absolutely hurtful.

Mr. J. T. Trowbridge, more practical than
any of those who have preceded him, sums up

the ideal book for young people as that which
gives a faithful representation of life, nourishes
the moral fibre, fosters a love of nature, and cul-
tivates by example clearness and beauty of ex-
pression.— Neiv York Times.

Mr. McCormick has been at pains to canvass
one of the oldest and best of the public schools
of New York and the Polytechnic Institute of
Brooklyn. He finds that a lower class of litera-
ture is read by the pupils of the public school
than by those of the Institute, and he attributes
this to the fact that the Brooklyn boys live in
homes where the standard authors and standard
magazines are read by the older members of the
family, and where, consequently there is no occa-
sion forthe children to supply their own needs in
the matter of fictitious literature. The boys of New
York — those at least with whom he is concerned
— would seem to be less fortunate in this respect.
Writers for the young, Mr. McCormick justly
observes, should make their stories not only
“bright and fresh,” but “wholesome and im-
proving” as well. — The critic.

A Reading Circle.— If a teacher can keep
his boys from reading the flash weeklies and the
five-cent and dime novels, and put something
better in their hands, he is doing not only a good
thing for them, but making his own work easier.
Can he do this ? The following is one way that
it is being attempted this year by a teacher in
New York. In a letter written by him to the
parents of his scholars, he says :

“My plan is to form the class into a reading
circle, choosing nothing but good, healthful lit-
erature. As a beginning we have subscribed
for the Wide awake and St. Nicholas magazines,
together with the Harper's Voting people. Golden
days. Youth' s companion, and Christian weekly.

I propose binding them in manilla covers to pre-
serve them for future reference ; giving them
out weekly, the boys retaining a copy for one
week, and then exchanging ; thus each one will
have an opportunity of reading the whole six
numbers. I desire to meet the boys at my house
once a fortnight or monthly, as we may deter-
mine further on, where I can converse with them
about what has been done, and suggest plans
and keep an eye generally upon what is going
on. I wish you to be fully conversant with all
the plans and co-operate with me, as I do not
wish to interfere with any of their dujies, be they
at school or home.

“ There is one end I have in view throughout ;
that is, to make this the stepping-stone to some-
thing higher, and to aid me in my study of their
various tastes and inclinations, to know best how
to present the truth.”

This plan has obvious merits : (i.) It gives to
the average scholar a wider range of good peri-
odical reading than he otherwise could obtain.
(2.) Its tendency is to cultivate a class feeling
among the scholars — to make them feel that they
are a sort of a fraternal club. (3.) It proposes
to bring the teacher and the class together when
the scholars are off guard. (4.) It proposes to en-
list the co-operation of the parents. The teacher

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[June, ’83.

and the parents should be intelligent co-workers
in their mutual work of caring for the spiritual
welfare of the children. — Sunday-school times.

Reading-Rooms for Children. - An excel-
lent suggestion, especially in neighborhoods of
poor children, where they have no quiet nook
for reading and study, is to have a reading-room
in every school-house< that shall be open on
Saturday and a part of Sunday, as well as during
certain early hours of the week-day evenings.'
In many buildings, the ordinary school-room
could be used for this purpose. In the large
city school-houses, it would not be a difficult
matter to have one room set apart, furnished
with plain tables and chairs, maps on the wall, a
dictionary, and a few absolutely essential refer-
ence-books accessible, and the whole made
cheery and inviting on a winter evening by a
glowing fire in the open grate. If such a room
could be put in the charge of some intelligent
person, who can say what advantage it might be
in directing the tastes of the young ? If the ex-
pense is urged, it may be said that no form of
education is of more moment than that which
directs the habit of reading and the proper occu-
pation of spare minutes. The man who teaches
a boy to avoid demoralizing books, and to store
his mind with useful learning, does quite as
much for the future man as the one who teaches
him the “ rule of three ” or all three of the R’s.
— Christian register.

Sunday-School Books. — We have reason to
believe that the Sunday-school libraries are often
selected in a most injudicious and hap-hazard
way. Committees are sometimes appointed
who know little about books, and who are
guided more by external appearance than by
the fitness of the contents. It is a matter of
prime importance that the young of our con-
gregations should read, and that their reading
should be in every way wholesome and up-
building. It is by no means essential that
the contents of a Sunday-school library be all
religious, but it is supremely important that no
part of it be irreligious or mawkishly religious.
We see no reason why such a library should
not contain standard popular works on secular
history, science, literature ; but we do most
strenuously object to books which give a per-
verse view of God, and man, and of the relation
of man to God, or of the ordinances of Chris-
tianity.— Canadian baptist.

Fence and anti-fence parties in Stockton, Cal-
ifornia, have been contending with zeal and
vigor. The question at issue was whether a
railing should remain in the public library or be
torn down. The anti-fencers insist that the pub-
lic should have free 'access to the books, while
the conservatives hold that there should be some
protection for the volumes from indiscriminate
raids. One complainant wrote to a local paper:
“ The patrons of the library have as much right
to handle these books as the librarian has. A
good many of them pay more taxes than he does
and more than the trustees do who established
that despotic regulation.” — Bost, Adv.

?lil)rart) fJurdjascsiltat.

A selection of new books, with notes of
commendation or caution.

Books mentioned without notes can, as a rule, he safely
purchased for the general reader. The binding, unless
otherwise expressed, is generally understood to be in
cloth.

yEsop. Some of .(Esop’s fables with modern in-
stances shown in designs by Randolph Calde-
cott. N. Y., Macmillan, il. Q. $2.

“ The modern applications of the fables with their illus-
trations are pointed and happy.”

Albee, J: Poems. N. Y., Putnam. S. I1.50.

“ Delicate fancy and original thought.” — Boston Post.

Aldrich, T: Bailey. From Ponkapog to Pesth.
Bost, Houghton, Mifflin & Co. D. $1.25.

“ Light, graceful sketches, some of which appeared in the
Atlantic, brightened with that gay humor which he shares
with Mr. Howells.” — Boston Transcript.

Alexander, Mrs. \^Mrs. Annie Alexander Hec-
tor.] Her dearest foe : a novel. N. Y., Holt.
S. (Leisure moment ser.) pap., 30 c.

Allen, Grant. Colin Clout’s calendar : the
record of a summer, Ap.-Oct N. Y., Funk
& Wagnalls. D. pap., 25 c.

“ The feeling of personal love for Nature and constant in-
timacy with her which made Gilbert White’s ‘ Natural
history of Selborne’ the most readable book on the subject,
is possessed by Mr. Allen in a marked degree.” — Good
literattire.

Allen, Jos. H: Christian history in its three
great periods. In 3 v. V. i : Early Chris-
tianity ; V. 2 : The middle age. Bost., Roberts.
S. ea. $1.25.

‘‘ Not until Prof. Allen wrote had we a history of Chris-
tianity from the purely ethical standpoint. . . . His book
is eminently readable.” — Chicago Standard.

American cottages. N. Y., W: T. Comstock.
F. $5-

‘‘ Forty-four plates of cottages, a club-house, school-
house, pavilion, and a small seaside chapel, from the draw-
ings of a number of prominent architects.”

Argles, M. [“ The Duchess.”] Loys, Lord
Berresford, and other tales. Phil., Lippin-
cott. D. I1.25.

“ Seventeen short stories by the author of ‘ Phyllis.’ . . .
Remarkably equal in point of merit and of interest, and will
amply repay perusal.” — Boston Gazette.

Ashton, J: Social life in the reign of Queen
Anne. New ed. N. Y., Scribner & VVelford.
With 84 il. D. $2.25.

‘‘ With commendable diligence he has assembled a vast
number of documents, advertisements and what not, which
he has skilfully grouped in chapters illustrating the educa-
tion, food, dress, amusements, science, art, and manners of
the time.” — Atheiiceum.

Ashwell, A. R., Wilberforce, R. G. Life
of Samuel Wilberforce, D.D., Lord Bishop of
. Oxford and afterward of Winchester, with se-
lections from his diaries and correspondence ;
abridged from the English ed. N. Y., Dutton,
il. 6. $3.

” The latest volume of the English edition, which is
chiefly responsible for the ferment across the water, is the
most substantially reproduced, not so much to gratify the
general desire to see the so-called ‘revelations,’ as because
it is the most interesting. In it Bishop WilberforLe is
shown at the full maturity of his extraordinary and versa-
tile powers ; by friend and foe alike, he is acknowledged as
one of the foremost prelates of the English Church, an elo-

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?[uent speaker, a skilful organizer, a magnetic leader, an in-
atigable worker, ‘ an honor and an o’-nament to her name
at home and abroad.’ ’‘'‘—Preface to the Am. Ed.

Authors and publishers. N. Y., Putnam. O.

$1.

“ Gives sensible explanations of the methods of the pub-
lishing and editorial offices ; directions for the preparation
of manuscripts for the printer; hints on proof-reading; a
.sketch of the mechanical part of book-making ; and lists of
the American journals from which the beginner in literature
is most likely to receive encouragement.’’ — S. S. times.

Bird, Isabella L. 'iMrs. Bishop.] The golden
Chersonese. N. Y., Putnam, il. D. $2.25.

“ Entertaining sketches of travel in the Malayan Penin-
sula,”

“ She was everywhere the same independent, intrepid, in-
defatigable traveller we have known before. . . . One of
the best books on the Eastern tropics.” — Lite7-ary world.

“ There is a freshness in her handling of the most topics
and in her remarks on all animals, from mosquitoes to ele-
phants.”— Athenceuifi.

Blake, Mrs, Lillie Devereux. Woman’s place
to-day ; four lectures in reply to the Lenten
lectures on “Woman,” by the Rev. Morgan
Dix, D.D. N. Y., Lovell. S. 50 c. ; pap.,
20 c.

“ Witty and entertaining.” — Publishers' weekly.

Bovet, Felix. Egypt, Palestine and Phoenicia :
a visit to sacred lands ; tr. by W. H. Lyttel-
ton : with a biog. sketch of the author by F.
Godet. N, Y., Dutton. D, $2.50.

“Written in 1858 ; it has been translated into German,
Swedish, Dutch, and Italian,”

Brassey, Sir T: On work and wages. gZ/z
thousand. N. Y., Putnam. S. (Lib. of pop.
inf.) $r.

“ Simply written, comprehensive, and full of specific
facts. There is a brief introduction by Sir Arthur Helps,
and a full index.”

Brinton, Daniel G., M.D., ed. The Maya
chronicles. Phil., D. G. Brinton, 1882. 279

p. O, (Lib. of aborig. Am. lit., no. i.) $3.50 ;
pap., $3.

Brown, Walter Lee. Manual of assaying gold,
silver, copper, and lead ores. Chic., Jansen,
McClurg & Co. il. D. $1.75.

Browning, Rob. Jocoseria. Bost., Houghton,
Mifflin & Co. S. |i.

Burnett, Mrs. Frances Hodgson. Through
one administration. Bost., Osgood. D. $1.50.
“ She left a manner which was all her own to adopt that
of another writer. She has made an effective imitation of
Mr. Henry James in these pages, but the effort was not
worthy of her.” — IV. V. Times.

“ She seems to us to have lost her early creative talent,
and to have struggled to conceal its loss by analytical
writing. ... Possesses n6 merit, so far as we have been able
to perceive, as a gallery of portraits, and not much merit,
we conceive, as a delineation of the social and political life
of Washington.” — N. V. Mail and express.

“ The method of analysis, the attention to details, and
the brilliancy and cleverness displayed in the conversa-
tions, contantly recall Mr. James’ well-known manner. . . .
The book is one of great interest and of sterling ability.” —
Athena'um.

Chalmers, M. D. Local government. N. Y.,
Macmillan. D. (Citizen ser.) $1.

Chelsea householder (A). N. Y., Holt. S.
(Leisure hour ser.) $1. Same (Leisure mo-
ment ser.), pap., 30 c.

An English novel.

“ The scenery is admirable. There is real sun in the
pages, and fresh air, the genuine sense and flavor of Na-
ture, apart from the human interest, which in its way is
equally good,” — Lit, world.

Clarke, ja. Freeman. Ten great religion.^.
Pt. 2 ; A comparison of all religions. Bost.,
Houghton, M. & Co. O. $3.

“We find him entering upon it with the same earnestness
as twenty years earlier, and with no lack of that rare men-
tal vigor which has made him not only one of the most
learned, but one of the most useful and interesting writers
of his day.” — Boston Gazette.

Collins, Wilkie. Heart and science. N. Y.,
Lovell. D. $i ; pap., 50 c.

“ A story which opens in the author’s best manner. . . .
The dramatic effects are excellent.” — Athenatutn.

Cook, Dutton. Nights at the play. N. Y.,
Scribner & Welford. 2 v. O. $6.

“ Some theatrical criticisms contributed, 1867-81, to the
Pall Mall y:azette. No man has a higher reputation as a
dramatic critic.” — Spectator.

Corning, J. Leonard, A/.Z>. Brain-rest. N. Y.,
Putnam, sq. S. cl., $1.

“Devoted more particularly to the treatment of those
morbid conditions which lie at the root of sleeplessness,
and its accompaniment, brain-exhaustion.”

Crawford, F. Marion. Doctor Claudius ; a
true story. N. Y., Macmillan. $1.

“ The story opens in Europe, but the author soon brings
all his characters from the Old to the New World. The
lot is a simple one. The impressions received by the
wedish hero of America, and of New York in particular,
are striking and original. Must be pronounced a decided
success from a literary point of view.” — Boston Transcript.

Eliot, George. \_Mrs. J. W. Cross.] Essays ;
with an introd. on her “ Analysis of motives,”
by Nathan Sheppard. N. Y., Funk & Wag-
nails. D. (Standard lib.) pap., 25 c.

“ Now collected for the first time.”

Ford, Worthington C. The American citizen’s
manual. Pt. 2 : The functions of govern-
ments (state and federal). N. Y., Putnam. D.
(Questions of the day.) $1.

Freeman, E: A. Some impressions of the
United States. N. Y., Holt. D. $1.50.

“Thoughtful and instructive.” — Lit. world.

“Clear, penetrating and vigorous in thought and style.”
— Boston Post.

Galton, Francis. Inquiries into human faculty
and its development. N. Y., Macmillan, il.
0-^3. . . . r r.

“ The results of his continued investigations of the
varied hereditary faculties of different men, with a view to
learning ‘ how far history may have shown the practica-
bility of supplanting inefficient human stock by better
strains.’ ” — N. Y. Evening post.

Hall, S. C. and Mrs. S. C. Ireland, its
scenery, character, etc. Neiv ed., with col. il.
and steel and wood eng. N. Y., R. Worthing-
ington. 3 V., O. $12.

Hallowell, R; P. The Quaker invasion of
Massachusetts. Bost, Houghton, Mifflin »&
Co. D. $1.25.

“Careful work in correction of long-maintained hi<^tori-
cal inaccuracy and injustice. ... It discriminates be-
tween the harsh temper in which the ruling faction of in-
tolerants attempted to direct Massachusetts, and the better
spirit of the people generally.” — American.

Hare, A: J. C. Cities of Southern Italy and
Sicily. N. Y., Routledge. il. D. $2.50.

“Travel and description. Extpets from books, old and
new, relating to the places described, and historical lore ;
woodcuts and an index.”

Haven, ErastusO., D.D. Autobiography ; ed.
by Rev. C. C. Stratton, D.D. ; introd. by
Rev. J; M. Buckley, D.D. N. Y., Phillips &
Hunt. D. $1.50.

Ii6

THE LIBRARY /OUR HAL.

\June, ’83.

“ The record of a busy life, passing through the phases
of pastor, professor, president, and bishop. As a teacher
and president it is that Dr. Haven is best known and will
be most remembered.”—

Hole, S. R. A book about roses ; how to
grow and show them. N. Y., Gottsberger.
S. pap., 59 c.

‘‘ Mr. Hole writes with as much sprightliness as enthusi-
asm. From the loftiest flight to the meanest detail, he is
familiar with every aspect of his subject. Those who are
interested in the moral and social condition of our working
classes may find useful hints in bis American.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Medical essays,
1842-1882. Dost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co.,
p. $2.

“Contents; Homoeopathy and its kindred delusions ; The
contagiousness of puerperal fever; Currents and counter-
currents in medical science ; Border-lines of knowledge in
some provinces of medical science ; Scholastic and bedside
teaching ; The medical profession in Massachusetts ; The
young practitioner ; Medical libraries ; Some of my early
teachers.”

“ The charrn of Dr. Holmes’ manner, which is not
merely an affair of literary style, but the expression of a
genial temperament, is hardly less conspicuous in his seri-
ous professional essays than in the lighter and freer papers
by which he has so often captivated the ‘ general reader.’ ”
— N. Y. Tribune.

Hoppin, A: A fashionable sufferer ; or, chap-
ters from life’s comedy ; il. by the author.
Host., Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1883. D.
$i.5o._

“Amusingly written and illustrated story of fashionable
life in the country, by the author of ‘ Recollections of Au-
ton .House.’ The chief character is a beautiful widow,
who fancies herself a victim of all kinds of diseases — the
author calls her the '’nervous exhaustionist ’ or ‘ N. E.’
The book is discursive, and touches in a witty style upon
many fashionable follies.” — Publishers' weekly.

Howson, J. S., D.D. Horse Petrinse ; or, stud-
ies in the life of St. Peter. N. Y., Nelson &
Sons. D. $1.25.

Huxley, T. H., and others. Darwin and Hum-
boldt. N. Y., Fitzgerald. O. (Humboldt

lib.) pap., 15 c.

Jeaftreson, J: Cordy, The real Lord Byron:
new views of the poet’s life. Bost., Osgood.
D. $1.50.

“ Almost every chapter contains material which may be
fairly called new, and the book differs from many biog-
raphies of Byron in one very important point— it is scrupu-
lously just to every person concerned, the facts dealt with
being placed before the reader in a judicial spirit.” — London
Times.

Johnson, Sir}-. Orderly book during the Oris-
kany campaign against Fort Stanwix in 1777 :
annotated from valuable original ms. letters
by W: L. Stone ; with introduction including
the battle of Oriskany and the life of Sir J:
Johnson, by Rev. J: Watts de Peyster. Al-
bany, Munsell. il. bds., $4.

JOLY, N. Man before metals. N. Y., Apple-
ton. il. D. (Internat. sci. ser.) $1.75.

“ A sketch of quaternary man which is eminently pict-
uresque. ’ ’ — A theneeum.

“ A very complete summary of the achievements of pre-
historic archaeology during the last half century.”— .Sa/wr-
day review.

JuDsoN, E: The life of Adoniram Judson, by
his son. N. Y., Randolph. O. $2.
Lacombe, Paul. The growth of a people ; a
short study in French history, by L: A. Stim-
son. N. Y., Holt. S. $1.

Lalor, J: J., ed. Cyclopaedia of political

science, political economy, and of the political
history of the United States; by the best
American and European writers. V. 2 : East
India Company io Nullification. Chic., Mel-
bert B. Cary & Co. O. $6,

“ Much superior to the first volume. Mr. Alexander
Johnston, to whom has been assigned the department of
political history of the United States, contributes nearly
one third. It is impossible to speak too highly of the pains-
taking carefulness of his work. His sense of proportion is
excellent, and his accuracy even in small matters remark-
able.”— Nation.

Lanier, Sidney. The English novel and the
principle of its development. N. Y., Scribner.
D. $2.

“ Mr.^Lanier’s work has its best hold through its study of
George Eliot, which is original and full ; but it will be read
carefully on account of its pleasantly-illustrated, original,
and suggestive theory.” — Boston Globe.

“ Mr. Lanier calls attention to the important fact that
the modern novel, music, and {science appeared simultane-
ously at about the end of the 17th century. His remarks
on this subject are well worth reading.”— ^

Lathrop, G: Parsons. Spanish vistas ; il. by
C: S. Reinhart. N. Y., Harper, il. O. $3.

“ The artist, the engraver, and the printer have vied with
one another in the attempt to make a handsome book. . . .
Bright, sparkling description of travel. A chapter of
‘ Hints to travellers ’ will be worth much more than the
price of the book to many readers.” — Examiner.

Lawson, J: D. A concordance of words and
phrases construed in the judicial reports, and
of legal definitions contained therein. St.
Louis, Thomas. O. shp., net, $8.

Living English poets, 1882. Bost., Roberts.
I il. S. $2.

Lodge, H: Ca,bot. Daniel Webster. Bost.,
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. S. (American
statesmen.) $1.25.

“ Mr. Lodge does not profess to have discovered any new
material, but he has reached’different conclusions, from'a
review of printed facts, than are held by other biographers,
notably by Mr. George T. Curtis, to whose work he is under
the deepest obligations. Mr. Lodge has gathered with
infinite care, and compressed into a small space with re-
markable skill, a most graphic and accurate story of the
life and works of ‘ the preeminent champion and exponent
of Nationality.’ ” — Chicago Tribune.

McCarthy, Justin H. An outline of Irish his-
tory, from the earliest times to the present
day, N. Y., Harper. Q. (Harper’s Franklin
sq. lib.) pap., 15 c.

“ A series of judgments upon Irish history rather than
history itself. Its character may be inferred from his well-
known opinions as an ally to Mr. Parnell.” — Brit, quarter-
ly revietv.

McCosh, Ja., D.D. Development ; what it can
do and what it cannot do. N. Y,, Scribner’s
Sons. D. (Philos, ser.) pap,, 50 c.
Macdonald, G: The imagination, and other
essays. Bost,, Lothrop. D. $1.50.

The English edition was published under the title
“ Orts.”

Macloskie, G: Elementary botany, with stu-
dent’s guide to the examination and descrip-
tion of plants. N. Y., Holt. il. D. $1.60.

“ Aims to supply a readable sketch of botany, followed by
a guide to work in the field and in the laboratory.”

Madoc, Fayr. The story of Melicent, N. Y.,
Macmillan. D, $1. Same, Harper. Q.

(Harper’s Franklin sq. lib.) pap., 10 c.

“ A romance of the flightiest kind.” — N. V. Times.

Maine, Sir H: Sumner. Dissertations on early

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law and custom ; chiefly selected from lectures
delivered at Oxford. N. Y., Holt. O. $3.50.

“ It is his aim to point out the connection of existing in-
stitutions with the primitive or very ancient usages of
mankind, and of the ideas connected with those usages.” —
Providence Journal.

“ The whole boo\c is thoughtful in its scope, thorough in
its research, and most instructive in its narrative of the
development of social and political institutions.” — Boston
Gazette.

Martin, Frangois Xavier. The history of
Louisiana from the earliest period ; with a
memoir of the author by W. W. Howe ; and
appended “ Annals of Louisiana from the close
of Martin’s ‘ History,’ 1815, to 1861,” by J, F.
Condon. New Orleans, Jas. A. Gresham,
1882. shp., $5.

Mr. anjd Mrs. Morton : a novel. Bost. , Cup-
pies, Upham & Co. D. $1.25.

” The story is. one of physiological peculiarities so re-
pulsive that nothing short of the utmost reserve and most
sensitive delicacy of handling could save it from being of-
fensive.”—Advertiser.

Monger, Theodore T. The freedom of faith.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co. D. $1.50.

” His sermons are such as few congregations in this land
or any other are permitted to hear. It requires only a few
more publications of the same kind from a few pulpits of the
same sort to put an end to the apprehension that ‘ The
New Theology ’ cannot be trusted to minister to Christian
souls, or that it will bring with it weak or insufficient preach-
ing. "—Independent.

Newton, Rev. W. W. The priest and the man ;
or, Abelard and Heloisa ; a novel. \Anon.\
Bost., Cupples, Upham & Co. S. $1.50.

“ An interesting and useful historical novel, worth read-
ing. ... It goes far in praise to say that the book creates
a real atmosphere of its own, quaint, realistic, and mediae-
val.”— Literary world.

Norris, W. E. No new thing : a novel. N. Y.,
Holt. S. (Leisure hour ser.) $1.

“‘No new thing’ shows that Mr. Norris has studied
Trollope with advantage. ... In the drawing of char-
acter, Mr. Norris has made a distinct advance, and the
reputation which he has achieved deserves to be in-
creased.”—/I thenceum.

Oliphant, Mrs. M. O. W. The Ladies Li'n-
dores : a novel. N.Y. .Harper. Q. (Harper’s
Franklin sq. lib.) pap., 20 c.

“ ‘ The Ladies Lindores’ will prove, we suspect, the most
successful of Mrs. Oliphant’s novels outside the ‘ Chronicles
of Carlingford.’ ” — Spectator.

Palmer, Rev. A. Smythe. Folk-etymology : a
dictionary of verbal corruptions or w'ords
perverted in form or meaning, by false deri-
vation or mistaken analogy. N. Y., Holt.
O. $6.50.

“Of great value and absorbing interest, reference-book
though it be, and speaks highly for the compiler’s industry
and scholarship. The material is grouped under corrup-
tions of (i) English words, (2) foreign words, (3) proper
names, (4) from the coalescence of the article, and (5) from
mistakes about number.” — Critic.

Phelps, Austin, D.D. English style in public
discourse, with special reference to the usages
of the pulpit. N. Y., Scribner’s Sons. D.
$2.

“Broad and comprehensive. ... One of the most
systematic treatises upon the subject made by an American
writer.”

Porter, Luther H: Outlines of the constitu-
tional history of the United States. N. Y.
Holt. D. $1.50.

Prescott, C. E. The sailing-boat and its man-
agement. N. Y., Orange Judd Co. T. 50 c.

“ Founded almost entirely upon the practical experience of
the writer.”

Proctor, R: A. Mysteries of time and space.
N. Y., Worthington. D. $2.25.

“ A collection of essays dealing with the problems of as-
tronomy and the history of parts of the .solar system.” —
Hartford Post.

Rame, Louise de la [^fseud. “ Ouida”]. Wanda,
Countess von Szalras : a novel. Phil., Lip-
pincott. D. $1.25 ; pap., 40 c.

“ The plot is direct, continuous, and regular. Amid the
gross affectations and vulgarities of style, there are many
natural and vivid touches of description, and some moral
reflections of real originality and value. ‘Wanda’ is not
in the least improper ; it is aggressively, almost uproar-
iously moral.”— A". Purcell., in the Academy.

Roberts, Miss Margaret. In the olden time
\Anonj\ N. Y., Holt. S. (Leisure hour ser.)
cl., $1. Satne (Leisure moment ser.) pap.,
25 c.

“ A ^carefully studied and well-written story of the
peasants’ war of 1525. We have only found one error.
The Hohenzollerns were never mere ‘ Nuremberg traders.’ ”
— A cade my.

Robinson, Phil. Sinners and saints ; a tour
across the States and around them ; with three
months among the Mormons. Bost., Roberts.
D. $1.50.

“ Delightfully written account of a trip from New York
to Chicago, thence to Denver, Leadville, and on to Salt
Lake City. Unprejudiced chapters upon the domestic life
and peculiar institutions of these peoples. Nevada, Cali-
fornia, and Colorado also come in for notice. Mr. Robinson
looked at everything with the eyes of a cosmopolitan Eng-
lishman, and describes with the quiet humor so charming
in ‘ Under the sun.’ At the same time one feels that he is
reliable and trustworthy.” — Publishers' weekly.

Roe, E: P. An unexpected result, and [2]
other stories. N. Y., Dodd, Mead & Co. S.
75 c.

Russell, W. Clark. A sea queen ; a novel.
Harper, $1. Same. Q. (Harper’s Franklin
sq. lib.) pap., 20 c.

See notice under “ Literature for the Young.”

Saintsbury, G:, ed. French lyrics : selected
and annotated by G: Saintsbury. [French
text.] N. Y., Appleton. S. (The Parchment
lib.) $1.25.

“ The selection is in some ways unexceptionable. It is in-
troduced in a preface which is nothing less than a little
masterpiece, being exact and felicitous in manner, and as
full of matter as any piece of writing of the same length in
modern English.” — Sat. review.

ScHLEiDEN, M. J. The sciences among the
Jews before and during the middle ages ;
from the 4th German ed. Balt., Binswanger.
T. $1.

“ As a work of reference to illustrious names, showing
what Jews have done in past ages, Dr. Schleiden’s brochure
is interesting.” — N. V. Times.

Sergeant, Adeline. Beyond recall : a novel.
N. Y., Holt. S. (Leisure hour ser.) $1.
Same. S. (Leisure moment ser.) pap., 25 c.

“ The plot, if plot it may be called, is laid in Alexandria
and Ramley during 1882, and includes the bombardment of
the Egyptian forts, and the massacre and burning of Alex- ,
andria. There is much that is clever in the book.” — Spec-
tator.

SiDGWiCK, H: Principles of political economy.
N. Y., Macmillan. O. net, $4.

The library journal.

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I18

SiME, W: King Capital. N. Y., Putnam, sq.
S. (Transatlantic ser.) $i ; pap., 50 c.

“ A story dealing with the labor question, delightful in its
impossible romance.”

” He has told his story with a good deal of racy vigor.” —
Athene/-nt».

Smith, Jvev. II. Percy, ed. Glossary of terms
and phrases. Appleton. O. $3.

” It is intended tobringtogether such words, expressions,
quotations, etc., English or other, as are among the more
uncommon in current literature, and require, not for the
scientific, but for the ordinary reader, explanations, for the
want of which the meaning of a sentence or a paragraph,
even the drift of an argument, is often missed.”

Snider, Denton J. A walk in Hellas ; or the
old in the new. Bost., Osgood. O. $2.50.

‘‘No previous traveller has thrown so much light upon
modern rural life in Hellas.” — Boston Advertiser.

Stearns, H: P., M.D. Insanity: its causes
and prevention. N. Y., Putnam. D. $1.50.
‘‘Clear, scientific, and practical.” — Inter-ocean.

Stearns, Winfred A. New England bird-life ;
rev. and ed. by Elliott Coues. Pt. 2 : Non-
oscine passeres, birds of prey, game and
water-birds. Bost., Lee & Shepard. D.
$2.50.

‘‘ Includes not only the birds of New England, but also
of the entire northern section of our country. The results
of the latest investigations adapted to practical use.”

Stephen, Sir Ja. Fitzjames. History of the
criminal law of England. N. Y., Macmillan,
O. $12.50.

Stevenson, Rob. L: An inland voyage. Bost.,
Roberts. S. $1.

‘‘Mr. Stevenson in ‘An inland voyage ’ has proved him-
self a very prince among raconteurs. The haps and mis-
haps of two canoeists are given with racy zest. ... It
would be hopeless, unless one quoted the entire book, to at-
tempt to do justice to all the good and piquant sayings in
it.” — Chicago Tribune.

Thayer, Alex. Wheelock. The Hebrews and
the Red Sea. Andover, Draper. D. 80 c.

Believes that the important problem of the exodus can be
and has been satisfactorily solved substantially on the
hypothesis of Graetz, in opposition to all others, especially
that of Brugsch.

Thirlwall, Bp. Connop. Letters to a friend ;
ed. by the Rev. Arthur Penryhn Stanley,
D. D., Dean of Westminster. Bost., Roberts.
D. $1.50.

” Free from .sharpness, forced wit, or personalities that
make letters popular reading ; but pleasant, sympathetic,
and full of the human and intellectual interests which
Bishop Thirlwall and his Welsh friends had in common.” —
Boston A dvertiser.

Vincent, M. R., D.D. In the shadow of the
Pyrenees from Basque land to Carcasonne.
N. Y., Scribner, il. D. $2.

“ The country described and its people are both curious
and interesting ; the author’s style is vivacious and his de-
scriptive powers superior.” — Phil. Telegraph.

Warren, W: Wilkins. Life on the Nile in a
dahabeiih, and excursions on shore between
Cairo and Assonan ; also a tour in Syria and
Palestine in 1866-67. 3^ <id. Bost., Lee &

Shepard, io-t-68 p. il. S. $1.

‘‘ Large amount of accurate information.”

Waterston, Mrs. R. C. Adelaide Phillipps :
a record. Bost. [Cupples, Upham & Co.]
D. $1.

‘‘ Shows how much the life of a great artist may be to the
world apart from the immediate pleasure which she gives.”
— Boston Transcript.

Weems, H: Life of Marion. N. Y., J. W. Lov-
ell Co. S. 50 c.

Willson, Marcius, Willson, Rob. Pierpont.
Mosaics ol Bible history : the Bible record,
with illustrative poetic and prose selections
from standard literature. N. Y., Harper.
2 V. D. $3.

‘‘The authors supply the thread of this narrative, but the
main part of the material is selected from different writers
in prose and poetry. The idea is original, and very clev-
erly carried out in these pages. The mosaics are nearly
all taken from standard literature.”

Witt, C. Classic mythology.

See Lib.j.., May, p. 84.

WooLSON, Constance Fenimore. For the major :
a novelette. N. Y., Harper. S. $1.

‘‘A story of Southern life, the scene laid in a remote
North Carolina village.”

” It is with relief that we have just read a story, where
the characters do not ‘ think about their thoughts or feel
about their feelings.’ They are far too busy for that. There
is a steady march of the story from the first to the last page,
and no character is allowed to straggle off by himself and
indulge in analytical reflections about the others.” — The
American.

Yonge, Charlotte M. Stray pearls : memoirs of
Margaret de Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bel-
laise. N. Y., Macmillan. D. $1.50.

See Lib.j.., May, p. 85.

OLD BOOKS WITH NEW TITLES.

A LIST of nine such books recently published
by G. W. Carleton & Co., of New York, with the
names under which they originally appeared :
New Title. Old Title.

Titcomb, Miss Sarah Elizabeth. Early New
England people : some account of the Ellis,
Pemberton, Willard, Prescott, Titcomb, Sew-
all, Longfellow, and allied families. Bost.,
W. B. Clarke & Carruth. O. $4.

Tourgee, Albion W. Hot plowshares : a novel.
N. Y., Fords, Howard & Hulbert. il. D.
$1.50.

“ Deals with the subject of American slavery . . .
[and] the coming of John Brown upon the scene. The
scene is laid in New York State, at the time when Martin
Van Buren was running for the presidency of the Free Soil
party in 1848. The story is told with a great deal of
power.” — Boston Post.

Trollope. Frances E. Like ships upon the
sea: a novel. N. Y., Harper. Q. (Harper’s
Franklin sq. lib.) pap., 20 c.

‘‘ It is not too long. The scene is laid in Italy, and the
book contains just enough of history and politics to give
the story a spice above that of the ordinary society novel.”
—Critic.

Do I love her. [Anon.] 1882.

Faithful to the end. [Anon.]
1881.

Friend or lover. [A?!on.]
1881.

Give me thine heart. [Anon.]

1880.

Heart and hand. [Anon.]

1881.

His idol. [Anon.] 1880.

Love’s vengeance. [Anon.]
1880.

My heart’s content. [Anon.]

1882.

Sweetheart and w\{e.[Anon.]
1882.

Benedict, F. L. Her friend
Lawrence. 1879.

Roe, A. S. True to the last.
1858.

Janet, an English novel.

[Anon.] n. d.

Roe, A. S. How could he
help it ? i860.

Reid, Mayne. Lost Lenore.
n. d.

Kimball, R. B. Was he suc-
cessful? 1864.

Reid, Mayne. The quad-
roon. [1856.]

Darrington - Deslonde, M.

John Maribel. 1877.

All for him. By * * * ?
[Anon.] 1877.

Carleton & Co. also published in 1882 a
novel called “ Fascination,” which is evidently
an old book with a new name, but I have not
been able to trace it. D. H.

Washington, D. C.

June, ’83.1

THE LIBRARY JOURNAL.

TI9

(fTa'Ucval iHotesi.

The late Prof. K : Witte’s Dante library was
bought ten years ago for the Strassburg library,
and now will be removed thither.

Dr. Pusey’s iibrary has been purchased by the
Pusey memorial fund, and money is called for
(;i^50,ooo, including the books) to form an endow-
ment for the maintenance of the library and of
some clergymen to aid students in its use.

The Boston Aldermen passed orders, March
26, for taking 23,000 square feet of land in the
Back Bay District, for the site of a new public
library building. The land will cost $180,000.
The board also appropriated $450,000 for the
building.

An examination for admission to the grade of
“stagiaires au catalogue du departement des
imprimes de la Bibliotheque Nationale,” was
held March 12, from ii till 5, the test consisted
in cataloging a score of works on cards accord-
ing to the new system of the Bulletin mensuel.
The candidates had access to Hain and Brunet.
Of three candidates one, M. Alfred Martineau,
was admitted.

An American residing in Montreal had or-
dered for his library the works of Huxley, Tyn-
dall, Tom Paine, and Herbert Spencer, and
although these all find places in the Parliamen-
tary library in Ottawa, they were confiscated
by the Montreal Collector of Customs. The
American was sent for, and Mr. Ryan, the Col-
lector, who i§ an ex-member of Parliament,
upbraided him^ saying that the books were im-
moral, irreligious, and injurious. “ I have not
r:ad them,” the Collector is reported to have
said, ‘‘but my assistant, Mr. O’Hara, has, and
he tells me they are bad.” The Minister of
Customs is now asked to say whether the Col-
lector is right or wrong. The Academy says
that a similar thing has been known to happen
at Oxford.

An international conference, of interest to state
department libraries and the like, has been held
at Brussels. Its object was to arrange for the
interchange both of public documents and of
scientific and literary publications. Eleven
States were represented : Austria-Hungary,
Belgium, Brazil, Spain, the United States,
France, Italy, Portugal, Rournania, Servia, and
Switzerland. Russia, Sweden and Norway,
Greece, and Uruguay are willing to adopt
the decisions of the conference. The principal
results were to arrange for the interchange of
the official newspapers and the parliamentary
publications of the several States.

Prof. Willard Fiske, of Cornell Uni-
versity, has been in Italy, making Florence his
headquarters, for about four months, devoting
his time to making his Petrarch and Icelandic
collections of books and mss. He has secured
2000 volumes for the former, the largest in ex-
istence, the next largest having been that in the
Louvre, dating from the time of Charles X. of
France. The latter collection was burned by the

Commune. Prof. Fiske said to a reporter : ” I
have met with success in making my collection for
the University library. I worked diligently, pass-
ing my mornings in the libraries of Bologna,
Venice, Padua, and Florence, buying books
afternoons and cataloguing them evenings. I
have now returned to sever my connection with
Cornell University. My duties as librarian are
so burdensome that 1 have not the time 1 desire
for my other work. I shall return to Florence
and make that my home for two or three years,
passing the summers in Copenhagen and London,
prosecuting the work of my collection of Ice-
landic literature.”

An Omnibus Library. — In Cloud’s Hammer-
smith omnibuses as late as 1832 there was a li-
brary of odd volumes provided for the amuse-
ment of the passengers on their journey, and
it was in thus beguiling the time on the long
jolting ride between the Coventry Street corner
and Fairlawn House, Hammersmith, that a cer-
tain youth who shall be nameless first de-
voured the pages of ” Gil Bias,” ” Tom Jones,”
and “ Peregrine Pickle.” When these books
were dear and not easily accessible, an omnibus
formed, of course, a convenient circulating li-
brary for many who had the faintest excuse for
calling on anybody when the vehicle reached
its destination ; but, unfortunately for the faith
of the proprietors in human honesty, the little
bookcase they had so liberally furnished on the
Monday afternoon was repeatedly found to have
vacant shelves on the succeeding Saturday night,
and accordingly, in 1833, the local residents
were informed that the omnibus library would
be discontinued, and that its place would be ad-
vantageously utilized as a seat for an extra pas-
senger who did not mind sitting with his back
to the horses. — Birmingham Daily gazette.

” G. W. S.,” the London correspondent of
the New York Tribune, gives this reason for
the sale of the Ashburnham library :

” During the father’s lifetime access to the li-
brary was denied to the public and to students
alike, and complaints used to be heard of the
owner’s exclusiveness. The son began by re-
versing his father’s policy. He caused it to be
made known that competent persons might in-
spect and study the manuscripts and books. A
rush followed. Ashburnham Place, the fine old
house that goes with the title and estate, happens
to be situated six miles from the nearest inn.
When the continental student arrived, as he did
in great numbers, it was found difficult to make
him understand that he was to travel six miles
daily to his work and six miles back again to his
inn. Lord Ashburnham, in the kindness of his
nature, used to house these travelling Teutons,
and other enthusiasts. But once under his com-
fortable roof, it was found that their studies were
prolonged, and that their kin and comrades ar-
rived to help them. The fame of the Ashburn-
ham place spread over the continent ; in short.
Lord Ashburnham found that he must either
give up his home to guests of whom he knew
nothing, or retract his permission, or sell his li-
brary. He resolved to sell.”

THE LIBRARY /OUR HAL.

\June, ’83,

NEW PUB Lie A LIONS.

SEVEN THOUSAND IN SEVEN WEEKS.

BUT YET A WOMAN.

A Novel. By ARTHUR S. HARDY. Price, $1.25.

WHA T VARIOUS CITIES SA V OF IT.

NEW YORK.

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Meditations on Life, Death, and
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Translated from the German of Heinrich Zschokke.
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Voices for the Speechless.

Selections for Schools and Private Reading. By Abraham
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An excellent selection of poems and stories in which kind-
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An Arctic Boat Journey

In the Autumn of 1854. By Dr. I. I. Hayes. With il-
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Jones Very’s Poems.

With a Biographical Sketch. By Wm. P. Andrews.
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An exquisite book, containing many poems by Jones Very
never before published, besides those which appeared several
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and other wise readers by the elevation and purity of
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Daniel Webster.

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A book of singular interest, in which Mr. Lodge con-
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Hoppin. With illustrations by the author. i6mo, $1.50.
A story of summer life in the country, with views of the
many humorous phases of life and character there present-
ed. Mr. Hoppin lends additional interest to the story by
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Pages from an Old Volume
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A Collection of Essays, 1857-1881. By Oliver Wendell
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These Essays include a large variety of subjects, all
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and so delightfully readable. More than half of the essays
have never before appeared in book form.

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO., Publishers, Boston, Mass.

June, ’83.]

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His Second Canifaign.

The i6th volume of the favorite and popular

Round Robin Series of anonymous novels.

I vol., i6mo,-$i.

“His Second Campaign” is a very charming and orig-
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“ The Pocket,” with its impoverished Southern aristocrats,
Georgia “ crackers,” ex-guerilla “ moonshiners,” and in-
trusive Chicago Yankees. Readers of “ Homoselle ” and
” A Tallahassee Girl ” need not be reminded of the merit
and delightsomeness of the Round Robin Southern stories,
which have become especially popular.

Familiar Sketches of
Phillips Exeter Acade^ny
and Surroundings.

By Frank H. Cunningham. i vol., small

4to, illustrated, $2.50.

An elegant volume, filled with interesting reminiscences
and descriptions of the eminent Exeter school ; its history,
from 1783 to 1883; the Phillips family ; and the buildings,
societies, and legends of the academy. This work will
have an especial interest for all old students and friends of
Phillips (of whom there are many thousands, all over the
country), particularly in view of the centennial anniver-
sary of the academy, June 21st, 1883.

Brook Farm to Cedar
Mountain: 1 861-1 8611.

By General George H. Gordon. With four
maps and four heliolype illustrations. i
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An exceedingly interesting account of the military oper-
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of anecdotes of camp, council, and battle-field. Gen. Gor-
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bellion.”

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BOSTON.

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By Augustus J. C. Hare.

They also have in ^>reparation by the same author an en-
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Walks in Rome.

They also publish by the same author :

Walks in London.

Illustrated. 2 volumes, $5. Two volumes in one, $3.50.

Cities of Northern and Central Italy.

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Memorials of a Quiet Life.

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The Life and Letters of Frances Baroness
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They have also recently published a second edition of

The Chess Player’s Manual.

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Surnames as a Science.

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THE LIBRARY JOURNAL.

\June, ’83.

The Publisher^ IVeekly.

THE AMERICAN BOOK-TRADE JOURNAL.

F. LEYPOLDT, Editor.

The Publishers’ Weekly, established in 1872, with which was incorporated the American
Literary Gazette and Publishers' (established in 1852), by purchase from Mr. George W.

Childs, is recognized as the independent representative of the publishing and bookselling interests
in the United States.

The bibliographical department includes :

1. A “ Weekly Record'" of all new American publications and reprints, giving their full titles (according to the rules
of American Library Association), with place and date of publication, publisher’s name, size, number of pages, and
price ; and also descriptive notes of books received. This first and practically the official record is arranged alphabetically
by the authors or titles, and for ready reference is placed in the same accessible position in each number.

2. A weekly “ Order List," being brief-title entries, with prices, of the “ Weekly Record,” arranged alphabetically
by the publishers. The object of this list is to present at a glance the simultaneous issues of certain publishers, and to
save time in the making up of orders.

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reviews and critical comments ; characteristic ex-
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The Literaiy News, since its establishment
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Its plan is to present each month a full survey
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{June, ’83.

LIBRARIANS SHOULD READ THIS.

The latest No Name,” e^ititled

PRINCESS AMELIE,

is now ready. The previous volumes, still in active demand, are :

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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

CHIEFLY DEVOTED TO

iLiijranj IBconomg anti iBitliograpf)})

VoL. 8. -No. 7.

JULY.

Contents :

Page
130

132

134
138

Page

Editorial 127

Co-operative Index ; Mr. Foster’s “ Aids to Read-
ers The Never closing System.

The Brooklyn Library.— 6". B. Noyes . . . . 127

Library Economy and History 128

Bibliografy

Anonyms and Pseudonyms
Literature for the Young
Library Purchase List . .

General Notes . . .

Supplement :

CO-OPERATIVE INDEX TO CURRENT PERIODICALS.

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London: Trubner & Co., 57 and 59 Ludgate Hill.

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Entered at the Post-OfB'ce at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter.

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[July. ’83-

SCIENCE.

Published Weekly at Cambridge, Mass., by Moses King.

OPEN

To the Educated People of the United States :

A few months ago the announcement was made that a company of eminent scientific men
was formed for the purpose of establishing in this country a scientific journal of the highest
character. The journal proposed was to be called Science, which well indicates its scope and
purpose. It was to be illustrated, and to appear weekly on Fridays. It was to be of convenient
size for reading in the library or in travelling conveyances. It was to be printed handsomely
and accurately, and to be of suitable shape to bind into easily-handled volumes. Its contents
were to be in extreme contrast with the majority of publications of the day. Every line was to
be written by a thoroughly competent person, who was to be paid for his work. Not a word was
to be inserted that had been influenced by any other cause than pure merit. Not a single
“puff” or any kind of notice of anything was to be printed for money-making purposes. Not
an advertisement was ever to be inserted in any but the avowedly advertising pages ; and no
advertisement was to be inserted on any page if the editor thought best to decline it.

The company chose for its officers and directors : President, Daniel C. Gilman, the Pres-
ident of the Johns Hopkins University ; Vice-President, Alex. Graham Bell, the inventor of
the telephone ; Othniel C. Marsh, the President of the National Academy of Sciences ; Gar-
diner G. Hubbard, long identified with the postal telegraph movement ; and Samuel H. Scud-
DER, the President of the Boston Society of Natural History.

It was proposed to offer to the public a journal which would, during the year, contain fifteen
hundred pages of text, and to ask merely a subscription of $5 ; making, in fact, the cheapest
scientific publication ever offered. Its contents were to give, in intelligible language, the scien-
tific progress in every department of science in all parts of the world. And, although the re-
quirements of scientific writing in some cases require technical language, every intelligent per-
son can find in every issue a fair proportion of the contents wholly intelligible to him, and all
of it of great interest and peculiar value.

It seems, therefore, that the enterprise is worthy of the active and positive encouragement of
all the educated people of this country ; and as the larger the paper’s circulation, the larger will
be its sphere of usefulness, we ask of you, first, to subscribe for yourself, and then to try to per-
suade others also to subscribe. In a short time a very handsome volume will be published,
containing a classified list of subscribers to this new journal, Science. If you are not a subscriber
already, we should be pleased to receive your subscription at once.

MOSES KING, Publisher,

HARVARD SQUARE, CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

Send for Free Specimen Number.

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VoL. 8.

JULY, 1883.

No. 7.

C : A. CuTfER, General Editor.
F : Leypoldt, Alanaging Editor.

CommumcatioHs/or the ]ox}Rti\L, exchanges^ and editors’
copies, should be addressed C: A. Cutter, Boston Ath-
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The Editors are tiot responsible for the views expressed
ift cotitributed articles or co7nmunications, nor for the style
of spelling, capitalization, etc., hi articles whose authors
request adherence to their own style.

Subscribers are entitled to advertise books wanted, or
duplicates for sale or exchange, at the Ttominal rate of
5 cents per line (regular rate 15 cents') ; also to adver
tise for situations or assistance to the extent of 5 liifys
free of charge.

The next number of the Co-operative Index
to Periodicals will be sent to press early, on ac-
count of the vacation of the editor. Collabora-
tors are requested to send their matter promptly,
as anything received after July 28 must be held
for the August number.

Mr. W: E. Foster, of the Providence Public
Library, has issued a circular to librarians, stat-
ing that in reporting upon ‘Aids to readers,’
at the coming meeting of the American Library
Association, he is desirous not to overlook any
noteworthy phases of this department of library
work,” and that he will feel obliged if the person
addressed will notify him of any efforts of this
kind in connection with his library. No doubt
all the reporters will have a similar desire. The
proceedings at Buffalo can be made more inter-
esting and instructive by such co-operation.

The Builder contrasted the way in which
a railway is repaired, new tracks laid, steel rails
substituted for iron, a new bridge put in, or a
new switch, without the delaying of a single
train, with the way in which London streets are
without hesitation blocked up for repairs by the
municipal authorities or the water or gas com-
panies. A similar comparison might be made
between the old-fashioned plan which closes our
New York libraries for a month or more in
summer for repairs or stock-taking, and the
Boston system in which the libraries are never
shut up for any such reason. Of course it re-
quires a little forethought and attention to so
arrange matters that cleaning and stock-taking
shall go on side by side with the regular library
work, just as it requires a great deal of organiz-
ing ability to substitute an iron for a wooden
bridge, or to alter the gauge of a track without
interrupting traffic. But w’hen the never-closing
system is once running, it will be found just as
easy as the other ; and the librarian who adopts
it with dread at first will wonder the second year
that he ever did otherwise.

THE BROOKLYN LIBRARY.

The Brooklyn Library Building Fund Asso-
ciation of the Eastern District, in Brooklyn, was
organized by special act of the legislature in
1870. The Building Fund Association was a stock
corporation, and the design of its originators was
to erect a building, at a cost of say $200,000 or
$300,000, in which there should be a large public
hall for meetings, concerts, etc., with stores on
the ground floor yielding a rental. The Brook-
lyn Library Association of theEastern District,
which was organized about 1865 and had collect-
ed a library of some 7000 or Sooo volumes, and
carried on a reading-room, which was maintain-
ed by the annual subscriptions of its members.

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[July, ’83.

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was to have rooms in it, free from rent, and the
free use of the hall once a week.

A large public meeting was held in furtherance
of the project, at which, and through the efforts
of canvassing committees, subscriptions were
obtained to the amount of about $112,000, as
was supposed. A considerable portion of this
was paid in from time to time (say $70,000).
Anticipating these payments, the trustees pur-
chased a valuable, centrally located plot of
ground for $65,000, of which a large part re-
mained on mortgage. Partly owing to the al-
tered circumstances of some of the subscribers,
hard times having come on, and partly to dis-
satisfaction with the location, or the amount of
money expended therefor, many subscribers
ceased paying the instalments on their sub-
scriptions ; and the trustees, after waiting some
time, attempted to enforce the subscriptions by
suits, which were defended on the ground that
the condition of the subscriptions — that $100,000
should be subscribed before they should become
binding — had not been complied with. Some of
the subscription-books could not be produced,
and in a test suit judgment went against the
Association. The fund was largely diminished
by the payment of interest on the mortgage and
other expenses, and the trustees decided within
the past year that the project had become im-
practicable, sold the property, and, with the ap-
proval of all parties interested, divided the funds
ratably among the stockholders who had not
forfeited their stock by non-payment of instal-
ments, thus finally closing the encerprise, the
net proceeds not amounting to more than one
third of the total investment.

The E. D. Library Association meantime
had ceased to keep their rooms open for want of
support, and sold their books and property at
auction in 1882. The fund which resulted is now
used by the Directors in paying rooms for a
branch of the Brooklyn Library in the same
part of the city. Under this arrangement, which
went into effect last fall, the Eastern District
Library pays the rent from its fund, and the
Brooklyn Library, which had recently restricted
its work to the Western District, maintains a
library of several thousand volumes, a reading-
room with magazines, newspapers, etc., and a
local delivery of books from the Central Library
twice a day, paying all the running expenses, and
opening its library of 75,000 volumes to the use
of the people of the Eastern District.

S. B. Noyes.

fiihratfi ISconomg an® l^istorg.

The Astor and Lenox libraries. (In Nation,
May 31, p. 462, 3). if col. See also p. 487.
CooLiDGE, W. A. B, The Library of Magdalen
College, Oxford. (In Notes and q., 6th s., 7 :

361-4, 421-3, 441-3).

General Society of Mechanics and Trades-
men of the City of N. Y. Annals, 1785-
1880; ed. byT: Earle and C: T. Congdon.
N. Y., 1882, 4+420 p. Q. cl., $4.

The “ Apprentices’ Library” is maintained by
this society.

L. A. U. K. Monthly notes. London, Ap. 15,
May 15, 1883. 57-84 p. O.

April contains G: R. Humphery’s Librarians
and the working classes, or can librarians assist
the working clases to use their Saturday half-holi-
day profitably ? May contains papers on An old
English text, by H: Wilson, and The Communal
Library of Abbeville on the Somme, by Arthur
Allchin.

The Libraries at Washington. (In Nation,
June 21.) 2f col.

Libraries of Babylonia and Assyria, 3. (In
Knowledge, May 25, p. 307.)

The Medical library at Washington. (In the
Nation, June 7.) i-|- col.

Vachon, Marius. L’art pendant la guerre de
1870-71 ; Strasbourg, les musees, les biblio-
theques et la cathedrale. Paris, Quantin,
1882. 52+161 p. 8®.

Abstracts of and extracts f rom reports.

Berwick, Pa. Population 3000 ; no. of vols.
in library, 3400 ; average issue for home use
500 a month, for library reference the same.
Under control of the Y. M. C. A., supported by
the Car Manufacturing Association.

Bridgeport P. L. Since Nov., 1882, the read-
ing-room has been open 28 Sundays from 3 to
10 p.m. The average attendance has been 238.
” Excellent order has been maintained. . . .
The library is actively used for purposes of ref-
erence by pupils of the public schools.”

Brooklyn Library. At the 25th annual meet-
ing Rev. Dr. Thomas said : “ There are special
advantages in such a well-chosen and well-man-
aged library. The amount of ephemeral litera-
ture is enormous. Like dynamite, however,
the press may be used for bad as well as good
purposes. Children on their way to school see
notices on the fences which in Athens would
have expatriated the man who placed them there.
The cheap press, the news-stands, and smaller
book-stores, are largely infected with such liter-
ature. Such libraries as this are of great pub-
lic benefit. This institution has something to

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do with future generations.” He regretted that
there was such a painful lack of expenditure for
books in this communit)^ It has expended
$15,000,000 on a bridge and not half a million to
get the young people transported to the coming
century.

Mr. Rossiter'W. Raymond said : “ A book is
simply a man with one thing to say. When
books were scarce no one could afford to own
all he wanted. Now they have become so
numerous that no one, not even a millionaire,
can afford to get all he wants. Even the Astor
Library is not complete in any given field. One
is now satisfied if he knows the men who knew
the facts without knowing the facts himself. The
library of the educated man should consist of as
many working tools as possible — the classics,
the various books, ^nd as many encyclopaedias,
dictionaries, and circulars as possible.” The
catalogue of the Brooklyn Library was a model
of literary work, and, as has been well said, al-
most a perfect realization of an impossibility.
For his own part he thought more of the cata-
logue than he did of any other volume in the
entire library. To a reading man the catalogue
was invaluable, and he would consider no library
— no private library of any considerable extent —
perfect without it. Without it the library would
be a mockery to the mass of readers.

Chicago P. L. — Added 9416 v. ; total 94,606 ;
issue for home use 376,475 ; borrowers 21,415 ;
visitors to library and reading-room 1,054,339.
There has been an increase of 7I per cent in the
number of books drawn for home use ; 43 per
cent in the number of visitors to the reference
tables ; and 48 per cent in the visitors to the
reading-room. The number of recorded visitors
to the library and reading-room was 1,054,339.
The increasing public interest in the more scholar-
ly books of the library and the large accession of
readers to the reference tables are to be attrib-
uted partly to the Saturday morning classes, -
which have been conducted at the library for the
last four months, and attended by the pupils of
the three high schools and their teachers. The
pupils have been instructed by the Librarian in
the resources of the library, the use of books,
the habits of study, the methods of making inde-
pendent investigation of topics for themselves,
and they have been addressed on the special sub-
jects of the day by their teachers, with the books
relating to it before them. Since Jan. 27, when
they began, there have been seventeen of these
exercises, and the interest in them has been con-
stantly increasing. The attendance at each has
been about fifty, which is the full capacity of the
room. It is to be hoped that when a new library
building is erected a room with three or four
times the capacity of this will be devoted to this
purpose, for it will be filled. The success which
has attended this experiment has been chiefly
owing to the zeal and culture which the teachers
have thrown into it. Their addresses to the
pupils have been models of good taste and felici-
tous instruction. Several private schools have
asked for the same privileges as were given to
the public schools ; and on one occasion the ad-

vanced classes in several of these schools were
received, and the subject of ” Early Printing”
selected by them was treated by me. So far as
high schools and the advanced classes in select
private schools are concerned, the experiment is
a complete success ; but a problem still remains
to be solved. How far can this or any similar
scheme be applied to the higher grades in the
grammar schools? The principals made a cord-
ial and ready response to the scheme proposed,
and promised their co-operation. Some of the
subordinate teachers did the same, but there was
not among the majority of them that enthusiasm
for assuming the care and responsibility of look-
ing after the reading of their pupils which was
encouraging.

To build an expensive structure on Dearborn
Park suitable to the immediate wants of the li-
brary, without being able in future years to en-
large the building— because the remaining land
is permanently occupied for other purposes —
would be an inexcusable lack of foresight, and
would entail the embarrassments and expense
which older libraries have experienced. The
whole of this property has once been turned over
by the United States Government to the city of
Chicago for a public park. Several institutions,
nevertheless, which are in no respect municipal
in their character are clamoring for a portion of
the land. One has been striving for years to ob-
tain a portion of this property of the city, and
has thrown every possible obstacle in the way of
favorable action by Congress on the Library bill.
Another institution is now preparing to assert its
claims. The City Council by its official action
has proposed, with the consent of Congress, to
dedicate the whole park to the exclusive and
perpetual use of the Public Library ; and until
the present title of the city to the property as a
public park is vacated it is not easy to see how
Congress can assign any portion of it to any of
the claimants.

Clinton t^Massl). Bigelow Free P. L. “ List of
some of the most popular writers of fiction,
showing the proportion in every 1000 novels and
juveniles loaned. Adams, W. T., 33.9 ; Alger,
H., jr., 29.9; Holmes, M. J., 23.7; South-
worth, E. D. E. N., 22.2 ; Terhune, M. V.,
16.6; Scott, W., 15.3; Roe, A. G. and E. P.,
15.2 ; Yonge, C. M., 13.8,” etc.

Library of Congress. “ The time consumed in
hunting for books which it is absolutely impos-
sible to provide with any definite place in the
Library occasions an incalculable waste of valu-
able time to students, and threatens more and
more to obstruct Congress and its committees
in the supply of information constantly wanted
at a moment’s notice.”

London Library. The special appeal made
last year for old reviews and magazines resulted
in an addition to the library of 622 volumes
given by subscibers, the total accession being
4942 volumes.

Mercantile Z., N. Y. ” The rapid deteriora-
tion of the bindings of our books which are
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serious matter. Books strongly bound in fine
bindings which are seldom used are crumbling
and falling t) pieces on the shelves. We be-
lieve this to be due to the action of gas and the
intense heat prevailing in the upper part of the
room.” ‘‘ The complaint most frequently met
with during the year is this, ‘ The library is so
far away, it costs as much to get here as it does
to buy reading matter.’ . . . We know of an
instance where the circulation of a library was
increased 20,000 volumes in one year by its re-
moval to a more central location.”

Toledo {0.) P. L. ” The increasing circula-
tion of the leading monthly magazines in binders
as each number is issued has been sufficiently
encouraging during the year to warrant a larger
number of these publications. With this there
is also a large circulation of the half-yearly
bound books.”

JSitUogratj).

The BOOKMART. Vol. I, no. 2. Pittsburgh,
Pa., June 20, 1883. 16 p. O.

Monthly, $i per annum, abroad $1.25.
CoRDiER, H: Bibliographies des oeuvres de
Beaumarchais. Paris, A. Quantin, 1883, 8°.
10 fr.

Fiske, Willard. A catalogue of Petrarch books.
Ithaca, N. Y., 1882. 67 p. Q.

Edition of 160 copies (80 on Whatman paper,
80 on American tinted paper), printed by the
University press of Ithaca. With full titles, col-
lations, and bibliografical notes. The work is a
credit to American bibliografy and fitted to re-
move the reproach of a want of “antiquarian”
interest from our work.

Griffin, Appleton P. C. Discovery of the
Mississippi ; bibliographical account of the
travels of Nicolet, Allouez, Marquette, Hen-
nepin, and La Salle, with the Joliet map. Bos-
ton, 1883. Q.

Reprinted from Mag. of Ajuer. hist., March,
Apr,, V. 9, p. igo-199, 273-279.

Paine, Nathaniel, Publications of the Ameri-
can Antiquarian Society. Worcester, Mass.,
1883. 26 p, O.

Schwab, M. Les incunables orientaux et les
impressions orientales au commencement du
i6e siecle ; rapport sur une mission en Ba-
viere et en Wurtemberg. Paris, 1883. 138 p.
8°. 6 m.

Thimm, Franz. Die Manuscripten-Sammlung
des Lord Ashburnham. (Pages 1030-32 of
Borsenblatl f. d. deiitschcn Buchhandel, and pp.
163-170 of Neuer A nzciger, May.)

“Von allem was ich uber die Sammlung ge-
lesen habe, das beste und zuverlassigste.” —
Petzholdt.

Paul Gaffarel’s Les explorations fran-
gaises depuis 1870 (Paris, 1882, 16'’) contains a
bibliography.

M. A. Bouche-Leclercq’s Histoire de la di-
vination dans I’antiquite (Paris, 1879-82, 4 v.,
8°) contains a Bibliographic generale in v. i.

L’Abbe Ernest Allain has added a bibliog-
raphy (p. 545-556) arranged by provinces to
his article in the Revue des (juestions hist., i avr.
“ Les derniers travaux sur I’histoire de I’in-
struction primaire.”

Mr. Cornelius Walford has projected a new
English “ Dictionary of periodical literature.”
He proposes to divide his work into four dis-
tinct periods : first, from the invention of print-
ing to the year 1712, the date of the first news-
paper stamp act ; second, to 1855, when the
newspaper stamp act was finally repealed ;
third, to Jan., 1882, when the libel and registra-
tion act came into operation ; and fourth, from
that date onward. The number and range of
publications to be indexed is immense. He in-
cludes newspapers, all classes of magazines,
almanacs, the publications of all scientific and
literary societies, and the pseudonyms of news-
paper and magazine writers. The work, it is
understood, will be published in sections, in
order that the compiler may obtain the assist-
ance of those who have made special collec-
tions, and who may be able to add new materi-
als for later volumes.

A CATALOGUE of very unusual character
has been published by Mr. Quaritch. It
describes only books which have been bound
for celebrated collectors or which are marked
with their arms, and books of anonymous own-
ership which have been bound by famous bind-
ers. The oldest book in the catalogue is a ms.
of the ninth century, the binding of which is
covered with gilt metal plates, enamel, gems,
and ivory carving ; the newest is a book bound
a few months ago by Riviere. Among the col-
lectors there are two popes, one emperor, ten
kings and queens of England, over a dozen
kings and queens of France, three Spanish, and
two Swedish — without reckoning royal princes.
There are books of Maioli and Canevari, Grolier
and Diane de Poitiers, Thomas Wotton (the
English Grolier), de Thou and Colbert ; bind-
ings by the Eves, Le Gascon, Boyer, Duseuil,
Padeloup, the Deromes, Traulz, Roger, Payne,
Kalthoeber, Lewis, Bedford, Riviere— in fact,
an embarras de richesses for the lovers of fine
bindings. — Ath.

Catalogs.

Cincinnati P. L. Bulletin, 1882. Cin., 1883.

4 1. -I- 219 p. 1. O.

Narducci, Enrico. Dell’ uso e della utilita di

un catalogo generale delle biblioteche d’ltalia.

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Roma, typ. delle sci. mat., 1883. 19+169 p.

4“. 1 1.

Narducci, Enrico. Vervollstandigtes Verzeich-
niss d. dffentl. Bibliotheken Italians. (Pages
193-198 of N^zier Anzeigi-r, June.)

Enumerates 427 public libraries.

Newton {Mass.') Free L. Class bulletin no. 2.
Boston, 1883. 39-139 p. O.

With an author-index to the Catalogue and
to the Bulletins.

Linde, Antonius van den. Die nassauer
Drucke der K. Landesbibliothek in Wiesba-
den. I : 1467-1817. Wiesb., Feller & Geeks,
1882. 3 + 543 P- 8°. 12 m.

Praised in Lit. Centralblatt, col. 670, 671, for
excellence of execution, blamed for its plan in
not being a full Nassau bibliography. Noticed
in Deutsche Lit.zeitung, col. 755, 6.

Schulz, K. Katalog d. Bibliothek des Reichs-
gerichts. Lpz., 1882. 65+1037 p. 8°. 15 m.
Praised in Deutsche Lit.ztg., 28 April.

Full Names. — Elias W: Van Voorhis (Tomb-
stone inscriptions at Fi^hkill village, N. Y.) ;
T; Hicks Wynne and W. S. Gilman, editors
(Colonial records of Virginia) ; C: Boyd Curtis
(Velazquez and Murillo) ; G: Washington How-
ard (The monumental city) ; Elihu Jerome Far-
mer (The resources of the Rocky Mountains).

Indexes.

American Antiq. Soc. A partial index to the
Proceedings of the Society, 1812-80, by
Stephen Salisbury, Jr.; added a table of con-
tents of all the publications and reprints of
the society to Apr., 1883. with prices, by Na-
thaniel Payne. Worcester, Mass., 1883. 86

p. O.

Roth, E; A complete index to Littell’s living
age. Vol. I, the first hundred vols. Biog_
rafy. (Abbot-James.) Phila., 1883. 32 1.,

printed on i side. O.

Unfortunately and for unexplained reasons,
certainly not for the convenience of the public,
this index of the first hundred vols. is published
separately, and the next fifty is to follow. The
present instalment is in 15 divisions (Art, Biog-
raphy, Church and state, etc.), another feature
of extremely doubtful expediency. But, with
these drawbacks, the work promises to be of
great utility. So far as we have tested it, it is
full and accurate. In the first four letters of the
alfabet the references were too bare of all ex-
planatory matter ; there was nothing to show
why they were made, so that one might look

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them up only to find that they were not to one’s
purpose at all. And worse than this, references
were made to volumes only without page num-
ber. But beginning with the letter E these de-
fects vanish, and the index is made after ap-
proved models. Mr. Griswold’s hieroglyfics
are not used, nor any like them ; the division of
the work into subject sections renders them
unnecessary. As the public addressed is small,
the price is high, $2 a number for 20 num-
bers ; but in a library of reference a good index
is worth almost any price.

Index to the N. Y. d. Tribune for 1882. N. Y.,
1883. 160.

anongms anli psculiongms.

Dreams C; G. Fall]. Boston, Cupples,

Upham & Co., 1883. 113 p. S.

Essai sur V Apocalypse y 1729, reimpr. a. Privas,
1798, was by Theodore Crinzoz de Bionens. — In-
termJdiaire.

“ Extracts from a jotirnal in the months of June,
July, August, and September, in the year 1819.”
London, IV. Clarke, 1820. 8°. In Lib. jour-

nal, “A trimester in France and Swisserland,”
is ascribed to Rev. Stephen Weston. I have a
copy with which is bound an anecdotal work of
48 pp., evidently written by the same person,
entitled “ Extracts,” etc., as above. — S. B. N.

German home life. London, 1876, is by the
Countess M. von Bothmer. See Longman’s
Notes for May. — J: Edmands.

Merry England. — The editor is Mr. Wilfrid
Meynell. — Acad.

Utah and its people ; by a Gentile (N. Y., 1882),
is by Dyer Daniel Lum. — D. IL.

Wit and wisdom from Ouida's works. — The
compiler is the Rev. F. Sydney Morris, an
American clergyman of the Episcopal Church. —
N. Y. Times.

A . de Gagnaud, ps. of L. Berluc de Perussis in
the Almanach du sonnet, 1874, 5, 6. — Interrni-
diare.

Arthur Penn. — J. Brander Matthews.

Claire Prune, ps. of Mine. C. Marbouty in
Une fausse position. — Intertnediare.

Dixon, ps. of Mme. Michel Masson nee Cle-
mence Harding (f 1882) in several stories.

Hoinos. “ Under the sobriquet of Hoinos the
author of [‘ Among the Mongols, by the Rev.
James Gilmour’] has long been known to us.” —
A cad.

Le grand Jacques, ps. of M. Gabriel Richard
in La mille et deuxieme nuit, conte inedit,
d’Edgar Poe,” Paris. 47 p., which at the end
of the notes is said to be ” traduit librement
d’Edgar Poe,” par le Grand Jacques.

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{July, ’83.

Ilttctature for tijr iloung.

Edited by Miss C. M. Hewins, Librarian of
Hartford Library Association.

Notes and suggestions, from various sources, on read-
ing and the best use of books, are to be included in this
department .

* The asterisk before a title indicates that further
information luill be found in the “ Purchase List."

Douglas, Amanda M. Whom Kathie married.
Bost., Lee & Shepard. D. $1.50.

“ The tone of the book, if somewhat commonplace, is
pure, and even elevating, while the ultimate felicity of the
majority is pleasant to think of. Much of the dialogue is
vapid and utterly trivial, for Miss Douglas follows up her
characters with a preraphaelite assiduity that is very weari-
some. We have not recently met with a story in which the
art of skipping can be exercised with so much advantage
and so little dread of subsequent regret.” — lAterary
world.

Grant, Maria M. Jeanie Nairn’s wee laddie.
N. Y., Dutton. D. $1-25.

A simple Scotch story for boys and girls, with a good
moral, and well told.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Biographical stories ;
with questions. Bost., Houghton, Mifflin &
Co. S. (Riverside lit. ser.) pap., 15 c.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. True stories from New
England history, 1620-1803. Grandfather’s
chair, pts. 1-3 ; with questions. Bost., Hough-
ton, Mifflin & Co. S. (Riverside lit. ser.)
pap., each 15 c.

Housman, H: The story ol our museum :
showing how we formed it, and what it taught
us. N. Y., Young. $1.25.

An interesting record of a collection begun by two boys
at the ages of eight and eleven, and continued till manhood.
Contains directions for the arrangement and preservation
of specimens, etc.

Jolly, W. The life of John Duncan, Scotch
weaver and botanist, Lond., Kegan Paul,
Trench & Co. about $2.

Larcom, Lucy. Childhood songs. New ed.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co. S. $1.

Lillie, Lucy C. Nan. N.Y., Harper. S. $1.

The old story, with variations, of a child brought up by
poor relations and afterward adopted by rich ones. She is
truthful and honorable, even to her own disadvantage, and
the story, although a little highly colored, is not unwhole-
some.

*Saunders, W; Insects injurious to fruit.

Of great value to young butterfly and moth collectors.
Describes several recently discovered species, and gives
both new and old names to others.

Step, E: Plant-life: popular papers on the
phenomena of botany ; with 148 il. by the au-
thor. N. Y., Holt. p. $1.25.

Interesting to boys and girls of twelve or fourteen, or
for reading aloud with younger children.

Notes and Suggestions.

Golden Days, — “ What do you think of Golden
days, recommended for the boys’ reading circle
in New York, mentioned in the June number?”

I think it less objectionable than the Boys of
New York or Frank Leslie's boys' and girls'

weekly, but far below the better class of chil-
dren’s papers and magazines. It has a certain
amount of “useful information” padding, that
the boy-reader will entirely ignore in his eager-
ness to reach Alger’s newsboys and Castlemon’s
hunters. — Ed.

Morals in Schools. — According to the prac-
tice of the Rev. E. E. Hale, he selected for the
theme of the Fast day service in his church a
matter of public interest suited to the day. Yes-
terday it was the teaching of morality in the pub-
lic schools of the State, He spoke himself, but
not at length, the addresses of the forenoon
being delivered by the Rev. Dr. Andrew P.
Peabody, Dr. Samuel Eliot, and Mr. E. P. Sea-
ver, the superintendent of the Boston schools.

Mr. Hale said: “It is due to the attack upon the
public schools that an attempt has been set on
foot by a large and respectable body of clergy
in this State to impress upon the people the im-
portance of moral education. A large committee
was appointed from different sects, from the
Catholic priests on one side around to the Jew-
ish rabbies on the other, representing a full
Christian and Hebrew union, to consider the
question of introducing into the public schools
the teaching of morality. This committee was
divided into three sections, each of which was to
prepare a reader for use in one grade of the pub-
lic schools.”

Rev. Dr. Peabody said : “ I have faith in text-
books, and yet no faith. I believe they would
be of immense service if used as text-books
ought to be used, but of no service at all if used
purely for recitation and question and answer.
They should be used for purposes of suggestion
and illustration. I cannot but believe that there
are certain great ethical ideas which may be im-
pressed upon the average young mind with much
force, so as to affect the whole life. Take the
ideas of right, and ought, and of a personal God
to whom the right is due. In those ideas the
human and divine spirits come into the closest re-
lation and the most intimate contact, except the
coming of God into the human soul through him
who is God incarnate.”

Dr, Samuel Eliot, formerly superintendent of
the Boston public schools, remarked : “I have
ardently desired that our whole system of educa-
tion should be quickened with a new moral pur-
pose. When I have seen the defects of the
minds of children who have come to school
that those defects may be repaired. I have often
mourned that there were no better means for re-
pairing them. But among the teachers we do
not see that high moral influence upon the chil-
dren that we ought to see. There are practical
points in which our system is capable of im-
provement. Our whole system of examination
turns upon intellectual pivots. The child ap-
proaches examination with fear and nervous ap-
prehension. The rank by percentage strikes a
blow at the boy or girl, and down goes the child
to the class below. They may have worked in
the spirit upon which angels look down and
smile. Yet from some temporary disorder, dis-
couragement settles down upon that young heart,

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and perhaps absolute ruin upon that young life.
Something like moral sense should enter into
the examination. A different spirit should pre-
vail in our system of rewards and punishments.
The natures of the individual should be regarded,
and they must be lifted above petty rewards and
punishments. There is a plan of giving free
text-books, of which we have heard much lately.
But giving free books is a burden to crush the
spirit of independence and moral courage, with-
out which even our birthright is done away. I
once visited a school in which the teacher was
instructing a class of boys in American history.
They were boys who were from the lowest
stratum of society, as it is called. But each boy
learned his lesson from his own book, a book
earned with his own money. Few books were
offered them by the city. They might have had
them if they would have taken them. But the
teacher saw that she had an opportunity to teach
them a better lesson, and each boy, in a spirit of
independence, used a book bought with money
he himself had earned.

Mr. E. P. Seaver, superintendent of the pub-
lic schools of Boston, made the closing address.
“ Instruction in morals,” he said, “ will be effective
as it follows the science of education. It is of
very little use to address arguments to the un-
derstanding unless there is a basis also for moral
appeals. The best illustrations for moral teach-
ing are often found in the school-room.” Mr.
Seaver thought that the new readers should con-
tain selections from the most ancient writers,
from .^sop and Homer, from the Bible, and
from the best modern writers also.

Mr. Hale spoke of the Japanese, who do not
teach arithmetic as much as we do, because it
tends to make men sordid. They give more
time to history and morals. It depends upon
the fathers and mothers, he said, to decide what
shall be the nature of the moral training of their
children in public schools.

Morals in School. — The question of a de
partment for regular teaching of morals in all
schools is so well worth considering that it seems
singular indeed to have it taken up as something
new at this late day. The meeting held on Fast
day was interesting as a fair proof of the amount
of mysticism befogging the general idea of mor-
als and morality. That the science may be
taught with mathematical precision, there can be
no doubt. That children can be made to find posi-
tive evil of any degree quite as distasteful as the
use of bad grammar, or the sounding of discord
or a mistake in addition, is not certainly an im-
possibility. The conditions for teacher and
pupil seem to be very similar to those required
for good instruction in grammar. A man would
not be a model teacher of the English language
who persisted in the expression “I done it,”
neither would the pupil be generally considered
promising if, after an hour’s lesson on the cor-
rect use of the pronoun, he in the following hour
misused the nominative case. So a man teach-
ing that the first object in life should be that of
serving others, would at once lose the confidence
of his pupils if he displayed in one of the many

well-known and striking ways a pure, unadul-
terated selfishness, which must be at once recog-
nized by an attentive girl or boy as an exact
contradiction to the last lesson. Certainly, the
child could not be blamed for saying, ” Master,
how is it that in our lesson you proved to us
that two and two make four, and now, in recess,
we find that you have changed the four to
three ?” Children are quick and sharp to a start-
ling degree.

According to this principle the introduction of
a department of morals into schools might
prove equally beneficial to teacher and scholar.
Suppose, for experiment, Emerson’s “ Conduct
of life ” be taken as a text-book. There is not
one sentence in it from beginning to end which,
under a* competent teacher, could not be per-
fectly comprehended by any one over sixteen —
not a principle but might prove helpful, elevat-
ing, and even fascinating, if presented in the right
way. Begin with the ” Essay on behavior,”
study it until every individual child has digested
the good philosophy, and proved its nourishing
power. Minds are very like stomachs in their
ability to digest what is put into them. They
cannot be fed indiscriminately. From “ Be-
havior ” go to “ Culture,” then study ‘‘ Power,”
then “ Beauty.” This would be a winter’s work.
And if all the true philosophy found in these
four essays does not strengthen the power of
thought, increase the extent of use, the grace
of manners, and lighten the faces with true
beauty of expression, it must be either because
the teacher has failed in his power of presenting
the principles clearly or by dint of frequent and
meaningless repetition of words, words, words,
has debased the moral currency and thus ren-
dered it more than useless to those among whom
it has been set afloat.

Perhaps had the lady who was far enough be-
yond her age to leave a legacy to Harvard ” for
the cultivation of the heart,” at the same time
specified her text-book, the percentage of clown-
ish acts resulting from a sublimity of selfishness
would already have marvellously decreased. —
Boston daily advertiser.

Ruskin and Fairyland. — Thackeray some-
where says that he would be content to write
one universally popular book for children, be-
cause that would insure as long a literary im-
mortality as any other. Children would read
his story and years afterward they would re-read
it to refresh their recollections of childhood.
There is much truth in this. No one can tell
how large a place “ Robinson Crusoe” or the
‘‘Arabian nights’ entertainment” or ‘‘.^sop’s
fables” hold in the juvenile mind ; how many
day-dreams and castles in-the-air are built upon
the materials found in these delightful world-
books ; how large their influence may be in
stimulating the imagination, and how, years
later, that influence may still be felt. Some
there are who argue that childhood is of itself
sufficiently imaginative, and that it needs pure
fact instead of delicate fancy.

In a recent lecture, Mr. Ruskin uttered some
very radical but very true words about ‘‘ Fairy-

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land.” He believed that he could hardly exag-
gerate the importance of acquainting children
with the magic views and mysterious beauties of
this pleasant country. “No child,” he said,
” will ever take so much delight in a real tale of
history as in the story of the shipwreck of a wal-
nut-shell in a gutter. So, too, no child has ever
made a pet of a mechanical mouse or a doll that
walks by machinery ; but an ever-memorable
little cousin used to pet the knob of my stick,
and even made a night-gown for it, finally ask-
ing her mother in timid and confidential whis-
pers whether she had better make any sleeves,
because as Bibsy has no arms perhaps she
would’nt like it.” He then went on to discuss
the entirely modern school of decoration for
children.

He showed how, “in literature ‘The cotter’s
Saturday night ’ was the beginning of the child’s
benediction, carried on by Mary Russell Mitford,
Wordsworth, and Dickens ; until it burst out,
‘like their own sweet Surrey fountains,’ in the
exquisite art of Mrs. Allingham and Miss Kate
Greenaway.” And for Miss Greenaway he could
not say too much, except that her art is too deli-
cate and “ too precious to be hidden in the cor-
ners of Christmas cards or stretched like elastic
round an almanac.”

It is a pleasant thing to see an enthusiast of
even Ruskin’s well-known eccentricity pleading
for the children. There is no danger, as the
world now hurries on in its matter-of-fact orbit,
that the practical side of life will be neglected ;
on the contrary, the danger grows greater day
by day, that the imaginative, the ideal, will be
trampled under, or smothered. Thousands of
those brought up in our rapidly increasing cities
reach manhood without having known the
charm, the refreshment, the inspiration of green
fields and whispering woods and shimmering
lakes, and the inexpressible ocean. The breath
of fancy was choked at their birth. They grope
up and down the tunnels of brick ana stone
over which a streak of sky hangs as a roof. Un-
happy are they who in childhood never believed
that elves and brownies lay hidden in wild-
flowers and among the ferns. Thrice unhappy
they who never had for childish playmates Alad-
din and Sinbad, Robinson Crusoe, Red Riding
Hood and Jack the giant-killer. — Phila. Even-
ing bulletin.

Mr. Ruskin confesses that having himself
been brought up almost exclusively in fairyland,
he is almost tempted to say that “no story
should be told to children which is not untrue.”

. . . The writer of this paragraph, however,
knows several bright boys, who, after listening
to a fairy story, immediately inquire if it is true,
and if it is not true, invariably ask for a story that
is true. Are the tastes of the present generation
more realistic than those of the last, or is the
instance just mentioned an exceptional one ? —
Harper's ^veekly.

The Publishers' Weekly, July 21, contains the
“ American educational catalogue ” revised and
brought down to date.

iLibtarg ^urcf)ase5lList.

A SELECTION OF NEW BOOKS, WITH NOTES OF
COMMENDATION OR CAUTION.

Books jnentioned without notes can, as a rule, be safely
purchased for the general reader. The binding, unless
otherwise expressed, is generally understood to be in
cloth.

Adams, Herbert B. Norman constables in Am-
erica. Balt., Johns Hopkins University. O.
pap., 25 c.

Alcott, W; A., M.D. Tobacco: its effects on
the human system — physical, intellectual, and
moral. [A’ifw eal.~\, with notes and additions
by Nelson Sizer. N.Y., Fowler & Wells, il.
S. pap., 25 c.

The matter added nearly doubles the former size.

Ammen, Daniel. The Atlantic coast. N. Y.,
Scribner’s Sons. D. (Navy in the civil war.) $1.

“ History of the naval operations from Cape Hatteras to
Cape Florida, from 1861 to the close of the war. Includes a
full account of the long siege of Charleston, the operations
against Fort Fisher, and the capture of Hatteras Inlet, Ro-
anoke Island, and Newbern. The author, Rear-Admiral,
U. S. N., took an active part in the scenes he describes.”

Anderson, Rasmus B. America not discovered
by Columbus, 'id ed. Chic., Griggs. D. $1.

” The author calls attention to some of the literature that
has appeared relative to the subject since the first cd. in
1874 ; also gives further data concerning the discovery of
America by the Norsemen in the loth centuiV. The ‘Bib-
liography of the pre-Columbian discoveries of America,’ by
Paul Barron Watson, which has been added to this edition,
is the same which appeared in the Library journal in
i88o.”

Bancroft, G: History of the United States of
America, from the discovery of the continent.
In 6 V. V. 2. Author's last revision. N. Y.,
Appleton. O. $2.50.

See L.j., Feb., p. 38.

Barrett, Frank. Honest Davie : a novel.
N. Y., Harper. Q. (Harper’s Franklin sq.
lib.) pap., 20 c.

“ No tale of love could be much prettier.” — St. James’'
Gazette.

Barrows, S; J. The doom of the majority of
mankind. Bost., Am. Unit. Assoc. D. 50 c.

” Shows that the damnation of the majority has been
taught by the highest authority in the Evangelical Church,
that it is still so taught, and that it is a part ol evangelical
creeds.” — Boston Gazette.

” His argument is none the less conclusive and clinching
for being presented with a certain sprightliness and liveli-
ness. ” — Boston Commonivealth .

Black, W: Yolande : a novel. N.Y., Harper.
D. $1.25. Same. Q. (Harper’s Franklin sq.
lib.) pap., 20 c.

“The chief part of this story takes place in the Scotch
Highlands, whose wild and beautiful .scenery is described in
Black’s most sympathetic style. It opens, however, in Lon-
don, and we are treated to a sail in one of the English steam-
ers to Suez, and then to a trip up the Nile in a dahabeeyah.
Yolande’s love story, and her attempts to save her mother,
are the salient points in the 'booV.'"— Publishers' weekly.

“ A book which is full of poetical feeling, and which does
more credit to the author than any work he has produced
for some time Saturday review.

Box, T: Practical treatise on the strength of
materials ; including their elasticity and re-
sistance to impact. N. Y., Spon. O. $7.25.
Broglie, Due de. Frederick the Second and
Maria Theresa, 1740-1742 ; from the French

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by Mrs. Cashel Hoey and J: Lillie. N. Y,,
Harper. Q. (Harper’s Franklin sq. lib.)
pap., 20 c.

“ A book, charming in itself, and most interesting from
the new light which it throws on the obscure transactions
it describes. . . . ^ It is a record of folly, of wickedness,
and of treachery su"ch as have seldom been equalled ; it is
worked out with close attention to accuracy in even minute
details, and, with a rare and poetic feeling, it gives an en-
thralling interest to what has sometimes been considered a
dull, and what Frederick’s admirers would fain believe a
forgotten, episode.” — Edinburgh Review.

Brooklyn bridge (The). A history of the
bridge, by W. C. Conant ; [also] The bridge as
a monument, by Montgomery Schuyler, to-
gether with an account of the opening exer-
cises, May 24, '83. N. Y., il. Q. (Harper’s
Franklin sq. lib.) pap., 20 c.

Carroll, Howard. Twelve Americans, their
lives and times. N. Y., Harper. D. $1.75.

” His subjects include Horatio Seymour, Charles Francis
Adams, Peter Cooper, Hannibal Hamlin, John Gilbert,
Robert C. Schenk, Frederick Douglass, William Allen,
Allen G. Thurman, Joseph Jefferson, Elihu B. Washburne,
and Alexander H. Stephens, the acquaintance of most of
whom he has at one time or another enjoyed. Writing
thus from the standpoint of personal familiarity, Mr. Car-
roll’s portraits are friendly and appreciative, and whether
or not the individual belongs to his own political faith he
can find traits to praise and admire.” — N. Y. Observer.

Charity Organization Soc., N. Y. Hand-book
for friendly visitors among the poor. N. Y.,
Putnam’s Sons. S. 50 c.

Chattock, R. S. Practical notes on etching ;
with 8 il. N. Y., Scribner & Welford. O. $3.

“ An admirable book for those who wish to etch. It tells
in a very clear manner all that any beginner wants to know;
and its illustrations in different states are very useful to
the text.” — Academy.

Clemens, S: L. [“ Mark Twain.”] Life on the
Mississippi. Bost., Osgood. O. subs., $3.50
and $4.

‘“Mark Twain has come provokingly near making a
book of standard interest. . . . The first half is new and
of genuine value, the latter half is without interest or value
of any sort. The real half we incline to rate as the best
piece of work he has done. In it his humor is seen at its
truest. He has here a very original and fascinating theme,
and he works it up in an artistic and dramatic manner. . . .
In a series of vivid sketches the writer makes us thoroughly
understand that odd phase of life, and he shows not infre-
quently a fine power of imagination, which idealizes the
subject without making it less real.” — American.

COLQUHOUN, Archibald R. Across Chryse : nar-
rative of a journey of exploration through the
South China border-lands, from Canton to
Mandalay. N. Y., Scribner & Welford. il.,
O. I7.50.

“The two superbly printed volumes which form the
memorial of the latest, as it is one of the most brilliant,
successes in modern exploration, are replete with fresh in-
formation of sterling value. Two folding maps give the
•land and water route at a glance, and the illustrations, es-
pecially of the second volume, are worth the study of cos-
tumers and artists as well as of the casual reader. The
author’s style is unstudied and easy, without repetitions or
redundancies, and the narrative is enlivened with amusing
as well as thrilling incidents. One learns to admire Mr.
Colquhoun as well for his kindness of heart as for his
tenacity of purpose.” — Nation.

Crafts, Wilbur F. Successful men of to-day,
and what they say of success based on facts
and opinions gathered by letters, etc. N. Y.,
Funk & Wagnalls. D. (Standard lib.) pap.,
25 c.

” The book abounds in anecdotes.”

Day, H: From the Pyrenees to the pillars of
Hercules : observations on Spain, its history
and its people. N. Y., Putnam’s Sons. D.
$1.50.

Dean, Amos. The British constitution. Chic.,
Townsend MacCoun. S. $1.

Dix, J: Adams. Memoirs; compiled by his
son, Morgan Dix. N. Y., Harper. 2 v., il.

O. $5.

“ The career which is reviewed in the very able and in-
teresting volumes under notice, was one of extraordinary
brilliancy and great public usefulness.” — Phila. No. Am-
erican.

Dulles, C: W., M.D. What to do first in acci-
dents and emergencies. 2d ed., rev. and enl.,
with new il. Phil., Blaklston. il. S. 75 c,

“So much has been added to this new edition, that the
result is practically a new book.”

Duntzer, H: Life of Schiller; tr. by P. E.
Pinkerton. N.Y., Macmillan, il. D. $2.50.

“ In fulness and accuracy of detail it surpasses not mere-
ly the agreeable sketches of Carlyle or Lytton, but the
ampler pages of Mr. Sime and Palleske. Its intellectual
and literary defects become almost merits for those who
seek simply the natural history of the man, and who need
a guide cast in the highest air. It is not the ideal life of a
Schiller, but it will be a valuable hand-book for whoever
essays to write it.” — C. H. Hereford in the Acadeiny.

“ It has, however, pleased the translator, for some occult
reason, to emphasize the faults of Herr Diintzer’s style, by
an unnecessary fidelity to the involved German construc-
tions, and a scrupulous avoidance of anything resembling
felicity of expression.” — Critic.

Early, Jubal A. Jackson’s campaign against
Pope in August, 1862. Balt., Cushings &
Bailey. O. pap., 50 c.

Edersheim, E. W. The laws and polity of the
Jews. N. Y., Nelson & Sons. D. $1.
Enault, L: Christine ; from the French by
Eliz. W. Pendleton. N. Y., Holt. S. (Leis.
hour ser.) $1. Same (Leis. moment ser.)
pap., 20 c.

“A love story. . . . The scene is laid in Stockholm,
and there are hunts, skating parties, sleigh rides and all
the other gayeties of the Swedish capital. The style is
vivacious, but in many places the translation is inexcusably
careless and clumsy.” — Boston Advertiser.

Faber, Christine. An ugly heroine : a novel
of domestic life. Lippincott. D. $1.50.

“ An intolerable conglomeration of deceit, lying, fraud,
murder, apoplexy, madness, cruelty, and horrible mar-
riages, the conversation being of a sort that we have never
heard in any ‘ social circles ’ except such as we have visited
for charitable purposes.” — Critic.

Fillmore, J; Comfort. Pianoforte music: iis
history, with biographical sketches and criti-
cal estimates of its greatest masters. Chic.,
Townsend MacCoun. D. $1.50.

Fowler, T: Shaftesbury and Hutchinson.
N. Y., Putnam’s Sons. O. (Eng. philos.)
$1.25.

Freeman, E; A. English towns and districts :
series of addresses and sketches. N. Y., Mac-
millan. il. O. $4.

Fulton, Justin D., D.D. Sam Hobart, the loco-
motive engineer : a workingman’s solution of
the labor problem. N. Y., Funk & Wagnalls.
D. (Standard lib.) pap., 25 c.

Gordon, G: H. Brook Farm to Cedar Moun-
tain in the war of the great rebellion, 1861 -
’62. Bost., Osgood. D. I3.

“ He is an outspoken critic, who does not mince his

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words, but he is thoroughly honest and sincere, and has a
conscientious regard for facts.” — N. V. Tribune.

Green, Anna Katharine. X, Y, Z : a detective
story. N. Y., Putnam’s Sons. S. pap. ,25 c.
Green, S. W., comp. Complete history of the
New York and Brooklyn bridge, 1866, with
portraits and sketches. N. Y., S. W. Green’s
Son. il. O. pap., 25 c.

Hardy, T: The romantic adventures of a milk-
maid : a novel. N. Y. Q. (Harper’s Frank-
lin sq. lib.) pap., 10 c.

Hills, W: H., comp. Students’ songs: com
prising the newest and most popular college
songs. Cambridge, King. Co p. Q. pap.,
50 c.

His second campaign. Bost. , Osgood. S.
(Round-robin ser.) $1.

“ The locality is north of Georgia, but in some respects it
may be extended to embrace the whole South ; and the
time is a near one, since the rebellion.”

Holloway, Laura C. An hour with Charlotte
Bronte. Funk & Wagnalls. D. (Standard
lib.) pap., 15 c.

“ Of this we cannot speak favorably, so far as the bio-
graphical part is concerned. The letters and selections are,
however, well worth the modest price.” — Examiner.

Humphreys, Andrew A, The Virginia cam-
paign of ’64 and ’65 : the army of the Potomac
and the army of the James. N. Y., Scribner’s
Sons. D. (Campaigns of the civil war.) $1.

Humphreys, Andrew A. From Gettysburg to
the Rapidan : the army of the Potomac, July,
1863, to April, 1864. N. Y., Scribner’s Sons.
D. 75 c.

Jarves, Ja. Jackson. Italian rambles : studies
of life and manners in new and old Italy.

N. Y., Putnam’s Sons. S. $1.25.

“It has some of the merits of an encyclopa;dia, and
would not serve a traveller ill as a guide-book and reference
work upon art and architecture ; but Mr. Jarves has some-
how missed the method which makes a thoroughly readable
book.” — Boston Tratiscript.

Jevons, W. Stanley. Methods of social re-
form, and other papers. N. Y., Macmillan,

O. $3.

“ 1 he late Professor Jevons was a social reformer of a
type which appears to be rapidly becoming extinct. He
was one of those who found it possible to advocate meas-
ures for the improvement of the lower classes, without
giving way to every fantastic ideal that the champions of
‘ the masses ’ choose to adopt, and to favor reform without
getting at all near the ground of radicalism and revolution.

. . . He has too, a healthy belief in the efficacy of self-
help and voluntary combination. . . . He has, in fact, a
certain distrust for sweeping parliamentary changes of any
kind, and prefers proceeding gradually, and b^y way of
experiment. . . . The publication of these essays will
deepen regret for the calamity which carried off, in the full
vigor of his powers, a thinker of singular accuracy and
closeness, and an economist of unusual moderation and
sagacity.” — St. James' gazette.

Johnson, J: Old Maryland manors : with the
records of a court leet and a court baron.
Balt., Johns Hopkins Univ. 38 p. O. (J. H.
Univ. studies.) pap., 30 c.

Keary, C. F., ed. The dawn of history : an in-
trod. to prehistoric study. 2 pts. N. Y.,
Fitzgerald. O. (Humboldt lib.) pap., ca. is c.
Leila-Hanoum. a tragedy in the imperial
harem at Constantinople ; from the French, 1

with notes by R. E. Colston. N. Y., Gotts-
berger. S. pap., 50 c.

“ Although sensational to the last degree, there is nothing
really impossible in the turns and catastrophes of this novel,
and some of the most tragic events are said to be history,
not the history that comes over the wires, but that is whis-
pered from ear to ear among the diplomats at Constantino-
ple.”— N. V. Times.

“ This novel belongs to a class of literary compounds
that have a use, certainly, but are to be labelled ‘ Poison,’
and put away in the cupboard out of reach.” — Literary
'world.

McIlvaine, j. H. The wisdom of Holy Script-
ure, with ref. to sceptical objections. N. Y.,
Scribner’s Sons. O. $2.50.

“ As clear as any book of science ; as virile as the honest
force of a strong masculine character can make it.” — Boston
A dvertiser.

Macquoid, Katharine S. Her sailor love.
N. Y., Putnam’s Sons. sq. S. (Transatlantic
ser.) $i ; pap., 50 c.

Mahan, A. T. The gulf and inland waters.
N. Y., Scribner’s Sons. D. (The navy in the
civil war.) $1.

Marcet, W ; The principal Southern and Swiss
health resorts, their climate and medical as-
pect. N. Y., Scribner & Welford. D. $2.50.
Maynard, C. J. Manual of taxidermy : com-
plete guide in collecting and preserving birds
and mammals. Bost., Cassino. il. D. $1.

Meyers, R. C. V. Life and adventures of Lewis
Wetzel, the renowned Virginia ranger and
scout. Phil., Potter, il. D. $1.50.

“ Abounds in stories of hair-breadth escapes, of Indian
and white ‘deviltries,’ and has hardly a page without its
‘ thrilling incident.’ ” — Good literature.

Moody, W: Godwin. Land and labor in the
United States. N. Y., Scribner’s Sons. D.
$1.50.

“ A graphic account of the condition of the laboring
classes, and the causes which affect their prosperity, also
the remedies. The chapters relating to land will be found
especially fresh and interesting. A store of facts that have
nowhere else been so conveniently collected. There is no
leaning to socialistic doctrine.” — Publishers' ^veekly.

“A collection of valuable statistics and facts bearing upon
political economy made by a pessimistic communist.” —
Boston Advertiser.

Myers, F. W. H. Essays, modern. N. Y.,

Macmillan. D. $1.50.

Myers, F. W. H. Essays, classical. N. Y.,

Macmillan. D. $1.25.

“ Mr. Myers is recognized as one of the most scholarly
and thoughtful writers in the essayist’s field. These pro-
ductions have been published chiefly in English periodicals,
and the longest of all, the essay on ‘ Greek oracles,’ was
part of a work enti.led ‘ Hellenica,’ issued in England.
The two volumes are devoted to ‘Classical’ and ‘ Modern’
themes, respectively. In the former, beside the topic
above referred to. ‘ Virgil ’ and ‘ Marcus Aurelius Antoni-
nus ’ are the themes. In the latter the subjects considered
are ‘Giuseppe Mazzini,’ ‘George Sand’ ‘Victor Hugo,’

‘ Ernest Renan,’ ‘ Archbishop Trench’s poems,’ ‘ George
Eliot,’ ‘ Arthur Penhryn Stanley,’ ‘A new Eirenicon,’ and
‘ Rossetti and the religion of beauty.’ ” — Boston Gazette.

Olney, E. W. \^Mrs. Kirk.] Fairy gold : a novel.
{Anon.^ Phil., Lippincott. O. pap., 40 c.

“ By the author of ‘ A lesson in love.’ A bright, interest-
ing, and readable story, with plenty of plot.” — Boston Ga-
zette.

Olsen, Niels, comp. The American yacht-list for
1883. N. Y., Niels Olsen, Steward N. Y.
Yacht Club. With 16 col. pi., obi. T. flex.

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Orton, Ja. Comparative zoology : structural and
systematic, for use in schools and colleges.
Rev. ed. [by E: A. Birge], Harper, il. O. cl.
$i.So.

Paris, Comte Ae. History of the civil war in
America. V. 3. Phil., Porter & Coates.
$3.50 ; shp., I4.50 ; hf. tky. mor., $6.

“ He is so completely master of his subject that he makes
clear the most complicated campaigns, and he tells his story
in the most lucid way.” — Atlantic.

“One feature of this book is worth special mention.
The opening chapter of the third book is concerned with
the financial operations of the government during the war,
and nowhere within the same compass is so lucid and com-
prehensible account of them to be found.” — Examiner.

Paul, C. Kegan. Biographical sketches. N.Y.,
Scribner & Welford. $3.

Paynter, Mary Moncure. Caleb, the irrepres-
sible. Sumner. D. $1.

“ Caleb is a little colored boy, a slave, a very humorous
creation.”

Phisterer, F: Statistical record of the armies
of the U. S. N. Y., Scribner’s Sons. D.
(Campaigns of the civil war.) $1.

“ A book of reference, containing the numbers and organ-
izations of the Union armies, a chronological list of the en-
gagements, with a record or an estimate of the losses in the
more important ones, and a list of the general officers of the
Union armies.”

“ Making proper allowance for some inaccuracies, which
have been pointed out by Gen. Boynton, is to be commend-
ed as a collection, in a most convenient ffirm, of a series of
valuable data which it is well to have at hand in reading
the histories of the war, to which it forms a companion vol-
ume.”— A rmy and navy journal.

Pollard, Josephine. Co-education ; il. by Wal-
ter Satterlee. N.Y., Birmingham. T. pap.,
25 c.

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eral Readers ; “ Current Literature^’ and “ Standard Liter-
ature Securing the Interest of a Community ; “ What
may be Done at Home ; How to Use a Library ; Books.

etc., on Reading.

“ Full of valuable suggestion and shrewd, wise counsel. ’’

— Boston Commonwealth.

“ Full of good sense, begotten of zeal and experience. It
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ment. Not a few librarians can find in it suggestions which
if followed will greatly inure to the benefit of the public
they serve ” — Good Literature.

“ Mr. Foster’s aim is to show how the aimless reader of
the ordinary public library, the man or woman who ‘ wants
a book,’ but does not know what book, or even what sort of
book, may be led to take a lively interest in books and the
library. Here Mr. Foster speaks as one having authority,
because in doing this very thing he has been most success-
ful. His little book is to be recommended in the highest
manner to all who seek to improve the quality of their read-
ing, or who desire to give aid and advice to others.” —
Critic.

“No one, with limited resources, has done more to turn
to account the collection under his charge, or shown greater
activity and ingenuity in devising ways and means to stim-
ulate reading, study, and research, and guide them in the
proper direction. His chapters are valuable as exhibiting
phase after phase of his perception of the conditions under
which public libraries are now used, and found to be of
service, by widely differing classes of the community.
They are all sound, practical, and suggestive, and will
benefit parents, their elder children, and the author’s fel-
low-librarians about equally.” — Nation.

LIBRARIES AND SCHOOLS.

Papers selected by Samuel S. Green, Librarian
of the Free Public Library, Worcester, Mass.
i6mo, cloth, 50 cents.

Addresses and papers which have done much to convi/ice
teachers that important aid may be had in their work, by
making a large use of libraries ; and giving accounts of suc-
cessful experiments made in different places, by librarians
and teachers, in bringing about a use of libraries which has
proved valuable to schools.

Contents. — The Public Library and the Public Schools,
by Charles Francis Adams, Jr. ; The Relation of the Pub-
lic Library to the Schools, by Samuel S. Green ; Libraries
as Educational Institutions, by Samuel S. Green ; The
Public Library as an Auxiliary to the Public Schools, by
Robert C. Metcalf ; The Relation of Libraries to the School
System, by William E. Foster; A Plan of Systematic
Training in Reading at School, by William E. P'oster.

“ All of these papers deserve and will no doubt receive
thoughtful consideration.” — Critic. I

“Librarians and teachers everywhere who consult this
little volume will close it with a sense of indebtedness.” —
Nation.

“Abounds in practical suggestions, and every school-
teacher ought promptly to make its acquaintance.” — Chris-
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“Nothing could be better than the suggestionsVhich the
book contains for facilitating the steps of young scholars to
the libraries.” — Boston Advertiser.

“ The special value of these papers is that they not only
show what might be done, but tell what has been done.
Teachers who recognize the truth that they owe something
to their pupils beyond mere listening to routine recitations,
and librarians who have a higher view of their duties than
that which regards them as purely clerical, will find practi-
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bringing about the use of the libraries by the schools.” —
Good Literature.

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BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.

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Hewins, Librarian of Hartford Library Association.

Price in paper, 25 cents.

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lists, and contains valuable and interesting counsel.” —
W. E. Foster.

“ Contains an admirable selection of books for children,
and by far the best catalogue of books of this kind that has
ever appeared.” — S. S. Green.

“ Miss C. M. Hewins, of Hartford, has long been known
to all who are interested in making the public library the
ally of the public schools, as one of the most successful of
modern librarians of the American school. ... A book
which it is difficult to praise too highly.” — Critic.

“ Deserves more extended praise than we have space for.
It will bring joy to the hearts of hundreds of parents, whose
confidence in the compiler’s judgment will be assured by
her prefatory remarks and directions, and her choice ex-
tracts from divers authorities on the true aim and criterion
of juvenile literature.” — Nation.

“ A little manual long needed, and one that will be hearti-
ly welcomed by parents who recognize the importance of
carefully supervising their children’s reading, but are often
confused and at a loss on account of the multitude of works
for the young now published, of every conceivable degree
of merit and demerit. A classified list of good books is
given, with indications as to the age and sex to which they
are best suited. The list is prefaced by hints as to how
children should be taught the right use of books, a note on
good reading in English and American history for children,
and a ‘ symposium ’ on children’s books, containing interest-
ing extracts from many sources. Miss Hewins has charge
of the department ‘ Literature for the Young ’ in Libra-
ry Journal^ is librarian of the Hartford Library, and may
safely be accepted as an authority and guide by parents
and buyers of children’s books.” — Good Literature.

F. LEYPOLDT, Publisher, New York.

Monthly Refer eitce Lists

A GUIDE FOR THE READER AND STUDENT
TO TRUSTWORTHY SOURCES OF INFOR-
MA TION ON CURRENT TOPICS.

Prepared by WILLIAM E. FOSTER,

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Address F. LEYPOLDT, Publisher,

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“The two volumes, 1881-82, of the Providence Library’s
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nection with any good public or private library.”—

I Nation, January 18, 1883.

“ Most thoroughly and carefully selected, embracing a
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than supply these lists as texts for composition.” — Spring-
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“ . . . The most noticeable and perhaps the most valua-
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division of the main subject. For a student or teacher, the
‘ structural bibliography ’ is much more valuable and sug-
gestive than a long li^t of authorities, which, in some cases,
would be hardly better than a catalogue.” — Herbert B.
Adams, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, in the N. E.
Hist, and Geneal. Register, Jan., 1883.

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Some melancholy news comes from California.
The Odd Fellows’ Library Association of San
Francisco, which has nearly 40,000 volumes, has
been obliged to close from want of funds. Al-
most its whole revenue was derived from the
various lodges, which paid $2 per annum per
member. The lodges met with reverses ; the
number of members requiring pecuniary assist-
ance became greater ; lodge after lodge ceased
to contribute till only ii out of 23 were left ;
and at last the trustees, determined not to run
into debt, voted to close the doors till better
times. The librarian hopefully says, “ The li-
brary is not dead, but sleepeth.” It may be so.
Possibly the brethren will feel so keenly the dep-
rivation of the privileges to which they have
been accustomed that they will demand and be
willing to pay for a reopening. But this is much
less likely to happen than it would have been be-
fore the Public Library was established. The
brethren and their families will get into the
habit of going there ; they will feel the need of a

library of their own less and less. Every month
that the Odd Fellows’ Library is closed, instead
of increasing their regret and their longing for
it, will make them more indifferent and unwill-
ing to bear any burden for its sake. A proprie-
tary library always has a hard struggle to main-
tain itself by the side of a free public library ; it
would find it doubly hard to re-establish itself in
popular favor, having once gone out of mind.

The reverse of the cloud is the news from
Providence that Mr. H: L. Kendall, among
many other charitable bequests, has made the
Public Library his residuary legatee, and that
the gift will amount to over $175,000. No li-
brary deserves such a windfall more.

Americans are proverbially generous for pub-
lic objects ; but we have no doubt that the ad-
mirable manner in which Mr. Foster has man-
aged his library, and the industry and skill with
which he has used his small resources have much
to do with this gift, which has so greatly enlarged
them. “ To him who hath shall be given.”

The Chilians have carried off from Lima “ the
National Library, the best in South America,
containing more than 300,000 volumes, and that
of the University of St. Mark, and the bookcases
have been broken up for packing-cases.” So
writes the Peruvian Rear-Admiral Garcia to the
London Times (Apr. 30). According to Messrs.
Tedder and Thomas the National Library con-
tains only 35,000 volumes, and they do not men-
tion the University Library at all. Here is a con-
flict of authorities not unusual in regard to libra-
ries, though the discrepancy is greater than com-
mon. We should prefer to trust the secretaries
of the English Library Association. These
South American patriots have such excitable
imaginations. Besides Fuentes, in his “ Lima ”
(Paris, 1866), speaks of the National Library as
filling two rooms, with a third for a reading-room.

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It is not likely that it has grown at the rate of
twelve or fifteen thousand a year since then.
Probably Admiral Garcia’s observation is as re-
liable as that of the persons whom one may hear
complaining that the book they want is never in,
that the catalogue is always wrong, that they
have to wait thirty minutes whenever they ask
for a book. The general want of exactness in
men’s estimates of numbers and time must al-
ways be borne in mind in interpreting assertions
about libraries that are not based on actual record.

SUBJECT-INDEX CATALOGUES.

A SUBJECT-INDEX needs to be reprinted and
supplemented every little while, not only for the
purpose of including in it references to new
books and papers on topics which had already
been embraced in previous catalogues, but also so
as to include all the new and fresh subjects need-
ing to be referred to, created by the progress of
philosophy, science, and art. An illustration of
this I find in the new supplement to Worcester’s
Dictionary. On the fourth page of the late pros-
pectus, we read, “ Specimen words selected from
the supplement,” and then there follows a list of
twenty-six words, with their definitions, which
are not to be found in previous editions of the
work. The thirteen words which I here quote
from it are either new words or old words with
new meanings, viz.: agnosticism, altruism, bi-
metallic, biology, Campbellite, credit-mobilier,
Darwinism, heredity, metric, nihilist, phono-
graph, positivism, telephone. The lemaining
thirteen of the twenty-six words are old words
recently assigned a place in the dictionary.

The subject-index volume of the New York
State Library for the year 1872, compared with
the supplement for the year 1882, ten years
later, illustrates the existence of the same de-
velopment of new topics for indexes as of new
words for dictionaries. In 1872, when this sub-
ject-index catalogue to the titles of the books in the
library was published, not one of these thirteen
words was made use of for a topical heading,
not even by a cross-reference. But when I look
into the supplement subject-index of 1882, of
the additions to the library during ten years, I
find that every one of these thirteen words has
been chosen by me as headings for subjects,
with from five to ten books referred to under
each subject, or else a reference has been made
from one of them to another word, which in-
cludes under it books of the same class of sub-
jects.* Thus from Biology the reader is referred
to Life, under which word references are made
to thirty-five titles. These thirteen words are
specimens only of what must necessarily char-
acterize this latest catalogue of this library, and
ought to characterize all new catalogues of sub-
jects or topics. i9hd besides, with the evolution
of new ideas, and new applications of discover-

* [The catalog of another library published in 1872 con-
tained only 6 of the 13 words, whereas its supplement in
1883 contains ii. — En.]

ies, the use of some of the old words for subject-
headings has a tendency to diminish, if not to
disappear, and to appear only under some more
comprehensive term, or to be included under
the new heading. Subject-indexes need con-
tinually to be made over anew like dictionaries
of words. While the latter define new words,
the former point out in what books the new
topics in science, art, and literature are dis-
cussed. Incompleteness is fated to be a con-
comitant of every fresh attempt at the most com-
prehensive subject-indexing, so long as the age
is progressive. H. A. Homes.

Albany, N. Y.

EXCHANGE OF NEWSPAPER ODDS AND
ENDS.

In almost every household may be found,
among its rubbish or its curiosities, one or more
copies of old newspapers. In every library hav-
ing newspaper files some of these are deficient,
some even fragmentary. There is no established
channel for bringing the supply and the need
together, but the Library journal may serve to
some extent to connect the public with the li-
braries, and perfectly well to make known the
wants of the latter among each other.

I propose to open the ball by offering to send
gratuitously to any library, the following single
numbers of Niles' register. First come, first
served ; and* no response from me will mean
“ forestalled. ”

Maryland, Baltimore, Niles' register. Vol-
ume 40 : index. Nos. 1038, 1040. — Vol. 41 : 1047,
1060.— Vol. 42 : 1069, 1072. — Vol. 49 : 1250, 1251,
1254, 1255, 1256, 1257, 1259, 1261. 1262.

On the other hand, I should be glad to get for
our local library, of the same journal, the fol-
lowing missing numbers :

Vol. 41 : 1041, 1048, 1049, 1051. — Vol. 42 :
1071 (supplement), 1074, 1075, addendum to
vol. (pp 40-48). — Vol. 43:1110, addendum to
vol. — Vol. 44 : 1124, 1130, index. — Vol. 45 : 1145,
1149, 1150, 1151, 1152, 1166. — Vol. 46:1174,
1175, 1187, 1189, 1192, 1194. — Vol. 47:1201,
1207, 1209, 1220, (supplement). — Vol. 48 : 1230,
1231, 1232, 1234, 1239, 1241, 1242, 1243, 1244,
1245, 1246, 1247, 1248, 1249.

W. P. Garrison.

Orange, N. J., July i6, 1883.

CO-OPERATION IN ITALY.

From the Nation.

M. Narducci has long urged the expediency
and practicability of a general catalogue for all
Italian libraries. Acting on the principle that
he who wishes a thing done should do it himself,
he sent a circular to the 408 public libraries of
the kingdom asking for a copy of their author-
catalogue for the syllable ab. Half of them
paid no attention to his request, but what the
other half sent was enough to. make a very in-
teresting catalogue, and to prove his point,
The contributing libraries are numbered, and at
the end of each article of the catalogue one finds

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the numbers of all possessing that particular
work. Moreover, each title has a serial number
by which references are made from four in-
dexes, (i) an index of personal names (collabora-
tors, annotators, translators, publishers, persons
to whom the books are dedicated), {2) an index
of subjects, (3) a typographical index of cities,
with an alphabetical arrangement of printers
under each city, (4) a chronological index. This
is substantially the plan proposed twenty-two
years ago by Mr. Jewett in his ‘‘ Plan for Stereo-
typing Catalogues but apparently it was re-
served for an Italian to carry out the American’s
idea. Possibly the Italians have more need of
such a catalogue than we, because their libraries
are proportionately more consulted for purposes
of research than ours, and because ours contain
more that is not worth such careful cataloguing,
and, again, because our rapid growth would
leave any such catalogue much sooner behind.
Yet it cannot be necessary to insist on the con-
venience to scholars, and we have often enough
advocated printing a title once for all in place of
our present practice of printing it separately for
each library. But there is one great difference
between the two countries that we have not
alluded to. The Italian libraries, if they are not
all government institutions, are all, we suppose,
under the power of one central government,
which can prescribe uniform objects and uni-
form methods. Any American co-operation
must be on the voluntary system. The govern-
ment is powerless in the matter ; it cannot com-
pel others to work, and it is not likely to be in-
duced to furnish the necessary funds. Nothing
but an enthusiastic rpillionnaire — enthusiastic
about a matter which is not likely to touch the
heart or suit the tastes of those who get millions
in this country — would be able to forward this
public work.

AN EARLY PROPRIETARY LIBRARY.

“ A Plan for a Public Library at Church-
Langton in Leicestershire. By the Rev. Mr.
Hanbury. 8vo. Price, 6d. Sandby.”

In the notice of this pamphlet, the title of
which we have copied from the Critical revieiv
for March, 1760, v. 9, p. 244, little is given of
the details of the plan. The author contributed
;(^ioo toward the foundation of the library, and
“ every person admitted as a member is to pay
five shillings entrance, and five shillings a year.
The library is to be attended by a sub-librarian
with a small salary, and the rest of the profits is
to be laid out in the purchase of books, accord-
ing to the choice made by the trustees . ’ ’ Whether
the scheme was ever carried into effect we are
unable to say. If it was, it probably soon met
the fate of Dr. Bray’s parochial libraries found-
ed half a century earlier, and of our school li-
braries established in the early part of this cen-
tury. Church-Langton was probably then,
what it is now, an insignificant* country village
of about 700 inhabitants .

* It is not mentioned in Murray’s Guide to Leicester-
shire.—5^. M. H.

?iii)rarj) ificonorng anh Ibigtorg.

Barnard, F: A. P. A school of library econ-
omy proposed in connection with the Columbia
College Libraries ; extract from the annual re-
port of [the] President. [N. Y., 1883.] 8 p. O.
Carrel, F. Poingdestre. The Marseilles Li-
brary. (In Bibliographer, June, 1883, p. 5, 6.)
Delaville le Roulx, J. Les archives, la bi-
bliotheque, et le tresor de I’Ordre de Saint-
Jean de Jerusalem a Malte. Paris, Thorin,
1883. 286 p. 8®. (Bibl. des Elcoles fran9aises

d’ Athenes et de Rome, 32® fasc.)

Noticed in Lit. Centralbl., g June, col. 830-2.
Edmond, J. P. Library of St. Mary’s College,
Blairs [Kincardineshire]. (In Bibliographer,
June, p. II-I3-)

Green, S: S. Library aids. Rev. and enl. ed.
N. Y., F; Leypoldt, 1883. 44-i29-f[i] p. T.
Mr. Green’s paper, read at the Baltimore
Conference, Feb., 1881 ; subsequently published
for distribution by the Bureau of Education ;
now brought down to the beginning of 1883.
Mr. Leypoldt has added the library references
from Poole’s “ Index to periodicals the chapter
on “ Books and articles on reading,” from
Foster’s “ Libraries and readers the biblio-
graphical references from the “American cata-
logue,” and the “Library authorities,” from the
article on “ Libraries,” by H. R. Tedder and
E. C. Thomas, in the Encyclopsedia Britannica.
Members of the American Library Association
will be supplied with copies without charge, on
application to the Secretary.

Abstracts and extracts.

British Museum. More than 50,000 title-slips
have been written, and 45 ms. volumes of cata-
logue have been printed in 13 volumes. It is
not surprising to learn that only 27 new title-
pages in Japanese and Chinese have been added.
Last year the number of books bound was 32,-
000, and 453,656 books were returned to the
general library from use in the reading-room.
Though denied the Ashburnham Collection, the
museum has bought a number of books. The
bindings of the books bought at the Beckford
sale deserve respectful admiration.

Lenox Library. In answer to inquiries in re-
gard to the purpose of the trustees to open the
library for public use, Mr. Kennedy, the Pres-
ident, recently said ;

“It is our purpose to open the library to the
public, but we have been delayed somewhat by
the illness of Mr. Moore. I presume no action
will be taken on the subject until after the sum-
mer season. It is the intention to open the build-
ing for public exhibition, but not in the sense
of a public library. That name is a misnomer.
It is not a library, and is not fitted for public use.

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It is merfely a collection of valuable works of art
and antique and curious books which are only
valuable to look at. We have the first edition
of Shakespeare, but not the last, and so with
other books. Instead of being called a library
it ought to have been called a museum.”

JVew York Mercantile Library. ” Complains
bitterly of the vandalism of readers admitted to
the free use of the reference department. Some
valuable and scarce books have been stolen and
many mutilated, one ‘ to such an extent as to
render it useless.’ So great is the appreciation
of the article ‘ Political Economy’ in Appletons’
Cyclopaedia that it has twice been cut out of its
place in the volume containing it. A reward of
$50 has been posted for the detection of any en-
gaged in this ‘ Satanic mischief,’ and we join in
the prayer of the Directors : ‘ Would that the

sight of it would paralyze the hand of the evil-
doer.’ ” — Nation.

Odd Fellows' Library Association, San Fra7i-
cisco. “ The chief trial has been the desk. It
requires a steady nerve and a rare self-control
to meet with equanimity and an exhaustless
amiability the varied moods of the hundreds who
daily visit a first-class library. I have come to
the conclusion that the first requisite of a good
librarian is a good temper.”

In the Proceedings of the American Antiqua-
rian Society, v. 2, no. 2, Senator Hoar indicates
the wealth of material for history in the govern-
ment archives and the National Library at
Washington.

iSttUosratg.

Carmena y Millan, L. Bibliografia de la tau-
romaquia. Madrid, 1883. i2-M6op. 4°. (500
copies.)

CoRDiER, H. Bibliographie des oeuvres de
Beaumarchais. Paris, Quantin, 1883. 10 p.
France. Min. de l’Instruction, etc. Notice
sur les travaux personnels des professeurs des
Facultes des Sciences, 1881, avec rappel des
annees anterieures. Tome i. Paris, Imp.
nat., 1882. 190 p. 8°.

Gives the titles and resumes of the contents of
each professor’s work. To be continued an-
nually.

Hildeburn, C : R. List of the issues of the press
in Pennsylvania, 1760-69. (Pages 97-119 of
Lib. Co. of Phila. Bull., July.)

Key, E. Forsok till svenska tidningspressens
historia. i. aln., 1634-1719. Med fotolith af-
bildningar af nagra bland Sveriges aldsta tid-
ningar. Stockholm, 1883. 8«. 8-1-200 p. ; 8^.
-+-4 P- of fac-similes.

Le Vavas.seur, G., and others. Bibliotheque

ornaise, canton de Briouze ; essai de bibliogra-
phie cantonale. Paris, Champion, 1883. 102

p. 18°.

Petit, L: D. Bibliotheek van Vjdderlandsche
pamfletten ; verzameling van de bibl. van
Joannes Thysius en de bibl. der Rijks-Univer-
siteit te Leiden, i. deel, 1500-1648. ’s Gra-
venhage, Nijhofif, 1883. 11-I-280 p. 4®.

2452 nos. Adds a fourth to the trio of excel-
lent bibliografies of Dutch pamflets by F : Muller,
H. C. Rogge, and J. K. van der Wulp.

SzELiNSKi, G: Verzeichniss d. vorzuglichsten
Werke a. d. Gebiete d. Thierzucht u. Thier-
heilkunde. Wien, Braumuller & Sohn, 1883.

I 1.-1-3I p. 8°.

The Alumni record of Wesleyan Univer-
sity, Middletown, Conn., 3d ed., Hartford,
1883, 110-1-720 p., O., contains (p. 529-668) “a
bibliography of the writings of the alumni and
faculty, by G. Brown Goode and Newton P.
Scudder.” There was no bibliografy in the
previous editions.

Wolf’s medicinisches Vademecum ; alph.-syst.
Zusammenstellg. v. neuen u. renommirten
Erscheingn. a. d. Gebiete der Heilwissenschaft
u. Thierheilkunde. 3. verm. Aufl.

Kdssling, 1883. 168 p. 80. ™

A Catherinot bibliografy has been added,
by Jacques Flach, to Les axiomes de droit fran-
Qais, par le sieur [Nicolas] Catherinot, Paris,
Larose, 1883, 64 p. 8®. 132 opuscles are de-

scribed de visu , and others are mentioned.

Mr. Walford’s scheme of a dictionary of
periodicals is called by the Athenceum ‘‘an
appalling glimpse of what human industry can
attempt.” The 5th part of the plan is in the
June Bibliog7-apher.

Catalogs.

Cleveland (O.) P. L. Subject catalogue of the

Reference Department. Cleveland, O., 1883.

136 p. 1. O.

The subjects are alphabetically arranged ; there
is no index of authors. The date is given, but
not the place of publication nor the size. “ It
was deemed best to place under the names of
countries and places all books that referred to
each, and where the subjects were numerous
enough to require it, to arrange them under clas-
sified heads.”

A commission appointed by the municipality
of Paris to draw up a catalogue of the popular
libraries has adopted a resolution to exclude from
this catalogue the Bible ‘‘ et tout autre livre
controverse religieuse pouvant, a quelque titre
que ce soit, fausser ou passionner I’opinion.”

Major Ben Perley Poore, who has charge
of the preparation of the descriptive catalog of
all Government publications, has begun to put

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his work into print. He expects to complete it
in one volume. The size of the page is the same
as that of the Congressional record, and the vol-
ume will contain about as many pages as Web-
ster’s Unabridged dictionary. This part of the
work will contain the title of the document; a
brief of its character, and vvhen and where print-
ed. There will be, besides, an index volume,
about half the size of the main volume, which
will be arranged by subjects. These publications
will include a reference to every document
printed either by Congress or by any of the
executive departments.

Full names. — W; Brown Carr (A plan for the
more expeditious and more thorough study of
English syntax) ; Lester Frank Ward (Dynamic
sociology) ; Sarah Amelia Scull (Greek my-
thology systematized) ; Denton Jaques Snider (A
walk in Hellas). D. H.

Indexes.

The Index Society, at the suggestion of Mr.
R. R. Bowker, has agreed to reckon among
its future tasks an index of English and Amer-
ican portraits, as it has already decided upon in-
dexes of painted and engraved portraits. Mr.
Bowker’s plan includes the magazines and illus-
trated papers. To rate the portraits thus indexed
according to their fidelity would probably be
impracticable, but it would be desirable to aflSx
the age at which taken (when known) or the year
of publication. — Nation.

The Renan Index. — “One of the fullest in-
dices we ever met with to an historical work. The
author says ‘ Le grand inconvenient des index
est I’entassement des chiffres, qui oblige le lecteur
a recourir a des vingtaines, quelquefois des cen-
taines d’endroits, et le laisse en doute sur le pas-
sage ou se trouve ce qu’il veut savoir. On a
pare, autant qu’il a ete possible, acette difficujte,
en decoupant la matiere jusqu’aux derniers de-
tails.’ The figures of the index agree with the
various editions of M. Renan’s work, except for
the ‘ Vie de Jesus,’ in which the pagination differs
in the first issues from the last, which is the 13th.
The figures refer to this final edition, but there
is appended a table of concordance for the pages
of the two issues.” — Ath., June 30.

Eiterature for t1)r ^oung.

Edited by Miss C. M. Hewins, Librarian of
Hartford Library Association.

Notes and suggestions, from various sources, on read-
ing and the best use of books, are to be included in this
department.

* The asterisk before a title indicates that further
information will be found in the “ Purchase List."

D’Anvers, N. Science ladders. No. 5. Low-
est forms of water animals. N. Y., G: P.
Putnam’s Sons. 50 c.

This is the first of a series of readers intended to teach
the laws of the animal kingdom in language simple enough
to be read by children. It contains some lessons of great
interest descriptive of the lowest forms of animal life, the

root-footed animals, sponges, infusoria, coral, etc., with il-
lustrations. An excellent little book.” — Christian advo-
cate.

Defoe, Daniel. Life and adventures of Robin-
son jCrusoe ; ed. for the use of schools by W.
H. Lambert. Bost., Ginn, Heath & Co, D.
(Classics for children.) bds., 30 c.

Firth, Abraham, comp. Voices for the speech-
less : selections for schools and private read-
ing. Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co. S.
75 c.

On kindness to animals.

Gow, Alex. M. The primer of politeness : a
help to school and home government. Phil.,
Lippincott. D. 75 c.

May be made useful by a judicious teacher.

*Hale, Rev. E: E. Ten times one is ten.
Harris, Amanda B. Dooryard folks and a
winter garden. Bost., Lothrop. D. $1.

List of books recommended for Sunday-school
and parish libraries, by the Church Library
Association. [With two supplements.] Cam-
bridge. S.

No book admitted that has not been approved by a three
fourths vote of a committee. Includes books bearing direct-
ly upon church life, history or doctrine, also others recom-
mended as wholesome, and short explanatorj”^ notes.

Macduff, J. R. The story of a shell. Robert
Carter & Bros. D. $i . 50.

“ It is well illustrated, and its natural history is accurate
as far as it goes, though the literary machinery is rather
cumbrous, and the style somewhat stilted. The small num-
ber of books of this class which, out of the many printed,
can be conscientiously recommended for young people,
impels us to bespeak for this one a kindly, if not an enthusi-
astic, welcome.” — Nation.

Notes and Suggestions.

Morals in Schools. — The opening exercises
of the schools might include choice ethical read-
ings, brief accounts of noble men and women,
tales of brave and fine actions, golden sayings,
parables and allegories of great teachers, illus-
trating character and conduct. There is no lack
of material for such readings in righteousness.
Plutarch’s sketches of the grand old Greeks and
Romans are full of nutriment for a noble high-
mindedness. Froissart’s “ Chronicles,” and
Fuller’s “ Worthies of England,” would yield
choice material for the early periods of the mod-
ern world. More modern history abounds in
tales of noble manhood and womanhood. What
a text book of patriotism is the story of Gari-
baldi ! Our own history is rich in great charac-
ters, only less conspicuous than Washington and
Lincoln. Every form of personal goodness,
every phase of social righteousness finds ample
illustration in the recorded anecdotes of actual
men and women. The daily incidents of the
newspapers furnish affecting models of heroism
and tragic examples of the consequences of vice.
The sagas of the ancients abound in ethical
parables, nature-myths woven into heroic le-
gends. Kingsley’s “ Heroes” and Hawthorne’s
Wonder-book” are charming specimens of the-
ethical power of these old stories. Scenes and
sketches from our great novelists, and passages
from the great poets, rTiight well form part of
such readings. . , . Indirect ethical instruc-

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tion insinuates itself most readily into the mind.
An oblique line is the line of greatest power in
communicating this knowledge. As Emerson
says: “It is the things of which we do not
think that educate us.” . . . History, as now
studied, has little or nothing of an ethical char-
acter. Without displacing its really important
instruction as to past affairs, it might be made
to throw character into the foreground. Ameri-
can and English history afford just as fine a field
for character studies as Hebrew history, if we
had the dominant desire of the ancient Jews to
study character. The ethical aspects of great
men and the moral bearings of great events
should be kept ever in mind by a wise teacher,
and would afford constant opportunities of exer-
cising the child conscience in a natural and in-
teresting way. — R. Heber Newton.

Reading and Thinking. — Thomas Arnold
says : “I call that the best theme which shows
that the boy has read and thought for himself ;
that the next best, which shows that he has read
several books, and digested what he has read ;
and that the worst, which shows that he has fol-
lowed but one book, and followed that without
reflection.” Boys, and girls too, every time you
finish reading a book, think of that. Commit it
to memory, and say it over often in connection
with your reading. If you have a desk or book-
case, write it all out on a good-sized piece of
paper and fasten it up over the desk or shelves
where you will often see it. Resist the temp-
tation to “ cram” a lot of reading. It may be
quite hard at first, but you will never be sorry.
Thomas Arnold was a man who read and studied
a great deal and was always doing something
for young people. He was the Dr. Arnold of
Rugby, that “ Tom Brown’s school-days” tells
about.

Stories for Girls. — One of the needs of to-
day is a series of stories for girls of twelve or
fourteen, telling of the wholesome, sheltered
home life of American girls who are carefully
brought up, but at the same time have plenty of
fun and frolic. Miss Phelps’ Gypsy Breynton
books, and Miss Woolsey’s “ What Katy did,”
and “ What Katy did at school,” are as near the
ideal type as anything I know. Some of Miss
Yonge’s books, notably the “Daisy chain,”
“ Pillars of the house,” and “ Six cushions,”
have the happy home atmosphere, but are Eng-
lish. Mrs. Whitney’s stories, admirable as the
earlier ones are, become far-fetched and mysti-
cal, and Miss Warner’s are morbid and full of
obtrusive cant. Miss Douglas’ Kathie series is
improbable. The little heroine who begins in
poverty and by the sudden appearance of a rich
uncle is transformed into a little heiress and
Lady Bountiful, has a tendency to make children
unhappy and discontented. Miss Douglas’ style
has become a weak imitation of Mrs. Whitney’s
earlier work. “ Little women” is MissAlcott’s
best book, but even that has too much slang
and love-making. The problem is what to give
girls in place of Mrs. Holmes’ stories or weak
Sunday-school tales. — Ed.

ifiotes anlt ©ucties.

Card Catalogues. — A new device for cat-
aloguing or indexing consists of flexible cards or
leaflets, in each of which notches are cut near
one of its ends. If a number of these notched
cards are placed together and a rubber band slip-
ped over their ends, and into the notches, it
holds them together securely enough for all prac-
tical purposes. A book-cover with a flexible
back notched to correspond with the leaflets en-
closes the whole, the rubber band passing around
it as well as around the leaflets, making a not
unsightly volume. The advantage claimed for
this device over the card catalogue is that it is
less bulky, and requires no fixtures in the way
of boxes, drawers, etc., while at the same time
new entries can be made in alphabetical order
with hardly more trouble than is involved in re-
arranging a pack of loose cards. Such a cat-
alogue, being portable, has its advantages for a
private library, and its disadvantages for a public
one, but if the cover were “anchored” to a
shelf there is no reason why it should not answer
as well as a public card-catalogue, from which
mischievous boys have been known to abstract
cards, “just for the fun of it.” — C: Ledyard
NOR'ION.

[The Leyden Library keeps its catalog on
cards, fastened together in some way so as to
make a series of books, like a printed catalog
except in this, that there is only one title on
each leaf. It is said by one who has examined
it to be very convenient. — Ed.]

The “ De” Entry.— As to “ Amicis, de,” or
“ De Amicis,” why does A. L A. prefer the
“ A ” entry ? I think this (“A”) entry is more
convenient, but is it not opposed to the theory
of following the local custom? The “ Cat-
alogo collettino della Libreria Italiana” (As-
sociazione tipografico-libraria italiana, Milano)
puts De Amicis, De Gubernatis, etc., in catalogs
of 20 or more publishers, under “ D.” — W. M. G.

[The A. L. A. and the L. A. U. K. no doubt
have followed the British Museum without ques-
tion, as they did in regard to Belgian names
where the present local custom is certainly in
favor of a“ De” entry. The Museum was prob-
ably led to its decision by a desire for simplicity.
If it could say, commence the heading with De
in English, but not in any foreign language,
this was a rule easy to remember. It seemed
reasonable that native and foreign should differ.
To make a distinction among the foreign nations
would have been more perplexing. And the
Museum had a right to adopt this rule because
there was a diversity of local usage. The index to
Tiraboschi, the greatest history of Italian litera-
ture, makes the entry without regard to the prefix,
indeed I think that is the. more usual entry in
the older books. In Belgium too there is a

, diversity of practice. The booksellers, it is true,
do honor to the De, but Vanderhaeghen, in his

I seven-volume Bibliographie gantoise, always re-
fers from the De to the name following. —

1 C: A.C.]

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THE LIBRARY /OC/R/VAL.

liitrarg ^tJurrijaseie^iiijeit.

A SELECTION OF NEW BOOKS, WITH NOTES OF
COMMENDATION OR CAUTION.

Books mentioned without notes can, as a rule, be safely
purchase i for the general reader. The binding, unless
otherwise expressed, is generally understood to be in
cloth.

Adams, C: Francis, jr. A college fetich : ad-
dress. Dost., Lee & Shepard. 38 p. O.
pap., 25 c.

“ A clear, logical argument in favor of introducing a thor-
ough study of living languages into our colleges, and de-
voting to them a greater part of the time now spent on the
classical fetich— Greek and Latin. The author claims that
the colleges at present fail properly to fit their graduates
for the work they will have to do in the life that awaits
them.” — Publishers'' weekly.

Alexander, Miss Frances. The story of Ida :
epitaph on an Etrurian tomb ; by Francesca
\^pseud.\ edited, with preface, by J: Ruskin.
N.Y., Wiley. D. bds., 50 c. and 75 c. ; Q.
bds., $1.50. — Same. D. Dost., Cupples, Up-
ham & Co. 75 c.

“ The story of a Catholic girl written by a Protestant one,
yet the two of them so united in the truth of the Christian
faith and in the joy of its love that they are absolutely un-
conscious of any difference in the forms or letter of their
religion.” — Ruskin.

“ The charm and power of the story lie in its simplicity
and naturalness.” — Literary world.

Auerbach, Berthold. Master Bieland and his
workmen ; tr. by E, Hancock. N. Y., Holt.

S. (Leisure hour ser., 153.) $1. — Same.
(Leisure moment ser., 17.) pap., 20 c.

” The scene is laid in an old German city, and the time of
action embraces the years immediately following the Franco-
German war of 1070, when all classes of society were feel-
ing the results of the new shaping of the German Empire.
Master Bieland is a shoemaker, and his friends all work at
trades, and they discuss and formulate some of those doc-
trines of strikes, co-operation, and rights of workingmen,
which are the vital questions of our generation. The plot
is fresh, the characters life-like. The work was found
among Auerbach’s posthumous papers.” — Publishers'
weekly.

Bacon, Edwin M. King’s dictionary of Bos-
ton : with historical introd. by G: E. Ellis.
D.D. Cambridge, Moses King. S. $i ; flex,
cl., 75 c. ; pap., 50 c.

It was the intention of the author, as he states in the
preface, “ not to prepare a guide-book simply, nor yet a
hand-book conveniently arranged, but to furnish as com-
plete and trustworthy information as possible of all that goes
to make the Boston of to-d<jy — a guide book, hand-book,
and condensed history of the city, its noteworthy institu-
tions, its many organizations — charitable, benevolent, liter-
ary and social — its religious denominations and churches,
and its varied and most interesting features, all in one com-
pact volume.”

Baxter, W. E. Winter in India. N. Y., Funk
& Wagnalls. map. D. (Standard lib.) pap.,
15 c.

“Devoted to the political and social characteristics, more
than to scenery or adventure. Good index.”

Bothmer, Countess M. von. Aut Caesar aut
nihil ; a novel. N. Y., Harper. Q. (Harper’s
Franklin sq. lib.) pap., 20 c.

“ What the author has tried to do is to weave into the
story of Russian Nihilism the life of a half Italian, half
Anglo-Irish girl, who takes part in those plots which cul-
minate with the explosion of the Winter Palace and the
assassination of the Emperor.”— W. Y. Times.

Bucke, R: Maurice, M.D. Walt Whitman.
Phil., D: McKay. D. $2.

“An unadulterated eulogy by a man of very little cult-

ure or critical ability ; and there is not much in it that was
not better said by Mr. Burroughs a dozen or more years
ago.” — Nation.

Bunce, Oliver Bell. Bachelor Bluff : his opin-
ions, sentiments, and disputations. [cVe7u
cheap ed^ N. Y., Appleton. S. pap., 50 c.
CoAN, Titus Munson, ed. Studies in literature.
N. Y., Putnam's Sons. S. (Topics of the
time.) pap., 25 c. ; flex, cl., 60 c.

Sel. from English magazines : American literature in
England ; Hamlet, a new reading, by Franklin Leifchild ;
The humorous in literature, by J. H: Shorthouse ; The
Bollandists, by Rev. G: T. Stokes ; Isaiah of Jerusalem, by
M uthew Arnold ; Concerning the unknown public, by T:
Wright.

Cunningham, Frank H. Familiar sketches of
Phillips Exeter Academy and surroundings.
Bost., Osgood, il. sm. Q. $2.50.

Curtis, G: Ticknor. Life of James Buchanan,
fifteenth President of the U. S. N. Y., Har-
per. 2 V. O. $6.

“ The late President Buchanan left voluminous manu-
scripts and private papers for the preparation of an accurate
account of his life. These were assigned in succession to
two personal friends, either of whom would have been
competent for the task, but misfortune and death interrupt-
ed their labors. At length in 1880 the executors and near-
est surviving relatives of the ex-President requested George
Ticknor Curtis to prepare the biography, and placed in his
hands all available material. Among the most interesting
features of two recent biographies, those of General Dix
and Mr. Bryant, are the autobiographical fragments of their
early life which form a part of the first chapters of each
work. A similar sketch was found among the papers of
Mr. Buchanan, briefly narrating some recollections of the
first twenty-five years of his life, from 1791 to i8r6. The
biographer has joined these fragments with such explana-
tory paragraphs as are necessary to make a clear and con-
nected narrative.” — N. Y. Evening post.

“ That he has done this work well, with conscientious
fidelity, adequate ability, and painstaking thoroughness, is
so much a matter of course, as scarcely to need saying at
all.”— W. Y. Times.

Garfield, Jas. A. The works of James Abram
Garfield ; ed. by Burke A. Hinsdale. Bost.,
Usgood. 2 V., 2 por. O. $6.

GiLiiEKT, Josiah H. Burning words of brilliant
wiiiers: cycloptsdia of quotations fi om tlie re-
ligious literature of all ages ; with an introd.
by,C; S. Rouinson. Albany, N. Y., D. R.
Niver. O. I3.

Arranged alphabetically under subjects. Index of authors.
Index of subjects.

Green, T: Hill. Prolegomena to ethics ; ed. by
A. C. Bradley. N. Y., Macmillan. O. net,
$2.75.

Hale, Rev. E: E. Ten times one is ten : the
possible reformation, by Col. F: Ingham.
\New ed.'\ Bost., Roberts. S. $1.

New edition ; enlarged by a sketch of the hero, F; W:
Greenleaf, who appears in the story as “ Harry Wadsworth,”
and an account of the Harry Wadsworth clubs.

Lea, H : C. Studies in church history, id rev.
ed. Phil., Lea. D. $2.50.

“ The result of patient research concerning the rise of the
temporal power, primitive church organization and disci-
pline, and the attitude of the early church toward slavery.”
— Boston Traveller.

Lewis, Alonzo, and Newhall, Ja. R. History of
Lynn. V. 2. Lynn, Mass., Ja. R. Newhall.
il. O. $2.25; leath., $2.70; complete, leath.,
$6.75.

Muller, F. Max. India : what can it teach us ?
with introd. and notes by Alex.' Wilder.

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N. Y., Funk & Wagnalls. D. (Standard lib.)
pap., 25 c.

Five lecture.':, entitled: What can India teach us; On
the truthful character of the Hindus ; The human interest
of Sanskrit literature ; Objections ; The lessons of the
Veda; Vedic deities ; Veda and Vedanta.

Nichols, W: Ripley. Water supply, considered
mainly from a chemical and sanitary stand-
point. N. Y., Wiley & Sons. O. $2.50.
Parker, Francis W. Notes of talks on teach-
ing ; reported by Lelia E. Patridge. N. Y.,
E. L. Kellogg & Co. D. $1.

“ A comprehensive and authoritative presentation of the
methods of the Quincy schools.” — School journal.

Pellew, G: Jane Austen’s novels : Bowdoin
prize dissertation. Bost., Cupples, Upham &
Co. O. 50 c.

Critical estimate of Miss Austen’s writings.

Proctor, R: A., ed. Nature studies. N. Y.,
Funk & Wagnalls. D. (Standard lib.) pap.,
25 c.

Essays by Proctor, E: Clodd, Grant Allen, Andrew Wil-
son, and T: Foster; reprinted from Knowhdge. Index.
Ribot, Th. The diseases of memory ; from the
French by J. Fitzgerald. N. Y., J. Fitzgerald,

O. (Humboldt lib.) pap., 15 c.

Rich, Shebnah. Truro, Cape Cod ; or, land-
marks and sea-marks. Bost., Lothrop. il.

o. $3.

‘‘The author has not spared himself trouble; in his de-
votion he visited Truro in England, and he has accumulated
facts of the most motley description ; he has made copious
extracts from old chronicles ; but the book needs careful
arrangement and compression.” — Boston Advertiser.

Sarcey, Francisque. The miseries of Fo Hi, a
celestial functionary ; from the French by A.

R. H. Chic., Jansen, McClurg & Co, S. $1.

‘‘ A story in which the hero enters the civil service of
China, and the plot is merely a thread on which to string
some keen satire about the system of public plunder ob-
taining in almost all countries.”

SiNNETT, A. P. Esoteric Buddhism. Bost.,
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. O. $2.50.

‘‘ Much of its teachings will seem to the careless reader as
merely precious nonsense, but one who carefully considers
the magnitude, the consistency, the symmetry of the sys-
tem as a whole, can hardly fail to regard even its superb
empiricism with respect.” — Boston Advertiser .

Tabor, Elizabeth. The senior songman : a
novel. [Anon.] N. Y., Harper. Q. (Har-
per’s Franklin sq. lib.) pap., 20 c.

Thomas, Bertha. George Sand. Bost., Roberts.

S. (Fam.ous women ser.) $1.

‘‘ Miss Thomas has achieved a rare and positive success
in carrying out the plan she proposed to herself, ‘ a careful
review of those facts in the life of George Sand which most
justly represent her character as a whole, and which were
the determining influences on her career and on her work.’
It is difficult to see how it could have been better done
within the limits prescribed by this series. To a rapid and
concise amount of outward events and material circum-
stances are added clear and attractive sketches of the books
which best lend themselves to such a resume, and which
are most important as illustrations.” — Nation.
Truesdell, J: W. Bottom facts concerning
spiritualism. N. Y., Carleton. D. $1.50.
Up from the Cape : a plea for republican sim-
plicity. Bost., Estes & Lauriat. S. $1.25.

‘’ On a thread of a story arc gathered some quite bright
contrasting sketches of conventional Boston life and the
democratic way of living of the people of ‘ the Cape.’ The
sketching in both cases is fresh and entertaining.” — Pub-
lishers' weekly.

Weed, Ella. A foolish virgin : a novel. N. Y.,
Harper. Q. (Harper’s Franklin sq. lib.)
pap., 20 c.

“ The foolish virgin is Miss Morgan, a gradu itc of Vassar
College. There are a few bright repartees and one or two
well-drawn situations, but the object of burlesquing a Vas-
sar education is too noticeable.”

Wheatley, H: B , Delamotte, P: H. Art-
work in gold and silver : Greek, Etruscan, Ro-
man, Pompeian, Byzantine, and the ecclesias-
tical gold-work of the middle ages. N. Y.,
Scribner & Welford, 1883. O. (111. hand-books
of practical art.) $1.

Wheatley, H: B., rrwt/ Delamotte, P: H. Art-
work in porcelain : Chinese, Japanese, Italian,
German, French, and English. N.Y., Scribner
& Welford, 1883. O. (111. hand-books of
practical art.) $1.

Williams, C: F. The tariff laws of the United
States, with explanatory notes, citations from
decisions of the courts and the Treasury De-
partment. Bost., Soule & Bugbee. O. $1.50.
Wilson, J: G. Atheism and theism. Phil.,
Lippincott. S. $1.

” My design,” says the author, ‘‘ has been, in a concise
manner, to show the folly of the atheist’s denial of God, and
its evil tendency in producing moral corruption, and to ex-
hibit the reasonableness of a belief in the being and attri-
butes of God.”

Young, Rob. Modern missions: their trials
and triumphs ; with introd. by J. H. Wilson.
N. Y.. Cassell. D. $2.

‘‘ Gives some adequate idea of the vast field covered by
Protestant organizations for the .‘pread of the gospel. . . .
The author possesses not only the statistical information
necessary to give authority to the book, but a knowledge of
the history of the various missionary movements that have
been made since the earliest Boston Transcript.

Corrections. — L. j , p. 137,/?^' Renan, read
Renan ; p. i38,/<7rVery, Jonas, Very, Jones,

OLD BOOKS WITH NEW NAMES.
New Name. Old Name.

Artful widow (An), [AnonI\
N, F., G. W. Carleton
Co.., 1881.

Barber, J. W, Royal road
to happiness ; or, the pict-
ure preacher. Phila.^
Htcbbard bros.., 1882.

Celebrated murders. [AnJn.]
Chic.., Belfords, Clarke Sf
Co.., 1879.

Filzsimon, E. A. _ Gerald
Barry ; or, the joint vent-
ure. N. F., J. Sheehy,
1881.

Jones, J. B. The rival
belles ; or, life in Washing-
ton. Phi la., T. B. Peter-
son bros., [1878] .

Moy, T. P. Lady Edith.
Phila., T. B. Peterson Isf
bros., [1882].

North, W: The man of the
world. Ph la., T. B. Pe-
terson bros., [1877].

Tucker, St. George. The
devoted bride. Phila., T.
B. Peterson bros.,

[1878].

Two ways to matrimony ; or,
false pride [Anon.'\

Phila., T. B. Peterson b*
bros., [1878].

Washington.

Kimball, R. B. To-day.
N. F., Carleton, 1870.

Barber, J. W. The picture
preacher. New Haven,
Ct., H . Howe, 1880,

Mysteries of crime, [/I «<?«.]
Boston, S. Walker Co.,
1870.

Fitzsimon, E. A. The joint
venture. N. F., J. Sheehy,
1878.

Jones, J. B. The Spanglers
and Tingles ; or, the rival
belles. Phila., A. Hart,
1852.

Moy, T. P. A prince of
BrefTay. Phila., T. B. Pe-
terson b bros., [1881].

North, W: The slaves of the
camp. N. F., //. Long b*
bro., [1855]

Tucker, St. George. Hans-
ford. Richmond, Pa., G.
M. West, 1857.

False pride ; or, two ways to
matrimony. [A non.]

Phila., 1866.

D. H.

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anonyms anti ^^seutionjims.

Authors and publishers., N. Y., G. P. Put-
nam’s sons, 1883, is by G: Haven Putnam.

Dottor Verith, ps. of Leone Fortis in the
journal of which he is editor, the Ptmgolo della
domenica.

’Eyw, ps. of Mme. Valtesse de la Bigne in
“ Isola,” Paris, Dentu, 1876, 18°, a romance.

Francesca, ps. of Miss Francesca Alexander
in The story of Ida, 1883, D.

Little sister {No name series).— “ I think you
may safely impute the authorship to Mrs. Jane
Yardley.” — Lit. world, June 2.

M. C. S., on the title of “ Hymns, home,
Harvard,” Boston, S. Williams and Co., 1883, D.,
stand for Mary Crowinshield Sparks (widow of
Jared Sparks).

Mr. Haynes’s Handbook of fictitious names
is severely criticised by Olphar Hamst in Lit.
xvorld, July 14, p. 225.

Mr. Cushing’s projected dictionary of pseu-
donyms will be very full, containing 5000 to 6000
initials and pseudonyms of which the real name
is known, and about 1000 where it is not known.
It is modelled on the plan of Querard, with a
second part, an index of the real names, giving
years of birth and death (if dead) and a general
statement of who the person is.

A uthors Wanted.

Clifford family ; a tale of the Old Domin-

ion. N. Y., Harpers, 1852.

Edith; the Quaker’s daughter. N. Y., Mason
bios. 1856.

George Melville ; an American novel. N. Y.,
W. R. C. Clark & co., 1858.

Harry Lee ; or, hope for the poor. N. Y.,
Harpers, 1859.

Heart (The) of Mabel Ware. N. Y., J. C.
Derby, 1856.

Rose Milton; a romance. Phila., Parry &
McMillan, 1855.

George Melville ; an American novel. By C.
Hatch Smith. — Bibliotheca A?nericana, v. 4.

Washington. D. H.

(Kcnccal i^otes.

A NEW library journal is proposed in Ger-
many. Petzholdt expresses his wishes that the
public would support better the one which they
already have.

Mr. G: Morrison intends presenting Minneap-
olis with an elegant library building, modelled
after that at Pittsfield, Mass., together with a
generous endowment.

Indiana University Library (15,000 v.),
at Bloomington, was burned on the night of
July 13, 14. The fire was caused by lightning
striking a telephone wire.

The French Imperial Library has arranged
and bound (in over 3000 volumes) its family

»5S

deeds and other documents. The task of
j arrangement and preparation cost M. Ulysse
Robert seven years’ labor.

In the Grenzboten, 1883, no. 20, is an article
against the German custom of lending volumes
for home use, the chief argument being the
danger of losing volumes that cannot be replaced.
Petzholdt protests against any diminution of
German liberality in this respect. Irreplaceable
volumes ought of course to be kept out of circu-
lation, but that IS no reason for restricting all.

In 1876 a library of foreign legislation was
established at the office of the Ministry of Justice
in Paris. It was intended to contain collections
of foreign laws, foreign legislative proceedings,
and the chief works published in each country
on its law, and also to make a collection on
international law. Already 14,000 volumes have
been got together. A second edition of the
catalogue is on the point of publication.

Reference libraries are needed in every
school. The State Superintendent should select
a list of books, and let each district buy from
this list with the money appropriated by the
State. In N. Y. State the $55,000 annually
wasted on the district libraries should be spent
on reference libraries. The books should be
kept at the school-house and be under the care
of the teacher ; they should be used at the
school, and not loaned out. — School journal.

A Jewish Library. — The widow of the late
Rev. A. L. Green has presented to the public the
valuable theological library collected by her
husband, which is especially rich in books and
pamphlets bearing upon the history of the Jews
in England. The library will be deposited in
Tavistock House, Tavistock Square, the habitat
of the Jew^s’ College. At a meeting held under
the presidency of the Rev. Dr. Hermann Adler,
it was resolved to raise a memorial fund for the
endowment of the library.

Civil-service reform has not reached France.
Jules Sandeau, who died last April, was librari-
an of theMazarin Library. He was an admira-
ble novelist and dramatist, but, we fancy, noth-
ing whatever as librarian. Certainly he has not
won himself a name either in bibliography or
bibliothetics. He has now been replaced by M.
Ferdinand Fabre, also a good novelist, not as
yet a dramatist — that will come in due time, as
it does to all good French novelists — but not the
least bit in the world of a librarian. The Revue
critique protests against the decision, as an in-
justice to a number of worthy and honorable
workers who have served the library for years
at absurdly small salaries, and now see their
well-earned right to a chance of advancement
disregarded. Fabre is an anti-clerical writer :
readers will remember “ L’Abbe Tigrane.”
This accounts for his appointment by the present
government ; but the appointment is only one
of a class that have exercised a very prejudicial
effect upon the interests of the Parisian libraries,
and have not been entirely unknown in this
country. — Nation.

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Seaside Studies in Natural History. By Alexander Agassiz and Elizabeth C. Agassiz.
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LOCK Foote. i2mo, $1.50.

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True Stories from History and Biography. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. $1.25.

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The Undiscovered Country. By William Dean Howells. $1.50.

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New England. In “ Poems of Places,” Nos. 25 and 26. Edited by Henry W. Longfellow.

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A WASHINGTON WINTER.

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juxtaposition, amid the throng that ever centres at the
political capital of a nation, will awake unwonted curios-
ity.”— New York Mail.

THE LADY OF THE LAKE.

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In the preparation of this edition of “ The lady of the
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THE

Library Journal.

Olficial Organ 0/ the American Library Association.

General Editor : CHARLES A. CUTTER,
Librarian Boston Athenanm.

The Library Journal was established in
1876 by the co-operative efforts of the leading
librarians on both sides of the Atlantic. Its
chief object is to be a practical help to the
every-day administration of both large and small
libraries, and to effect a saving by enabling
library work to be done in the best way, at the
lowest cost. The Journal especially meets the
the needs of the smaller libraries, offering them
the costly experience and practical advice of
the largest. In refraining from doing imper-
fectly what is done so well by the several jour-
nals specially devoted to antiquarian or purely'
historical interests, the Library Journal is
enabled to give its chie’f attention to modern
bibliography and current literature, as repre-
sented particularly in its departments of “ Bib-
liography” (proper), “Library Economy and
History,” “ Anonyms and Pseudonyms,” and
the “Library Purchase-List.”

Two important new features, that will render
the Library Journal more generally useful,
have been introduced during 1883:

I. A monthly index to the current mimbers 0/ {fifty-
six') leading A merican and English periodicals., compiled,
on the co-operative plan of Poole' s '' Index," by a num-
ber of librarians, and edited by William /. Fletcher, the
associate editor of Poole' s “ Index."

■1. A department of" Literature for the Young," con-
sisting of a list of new books suitable for the young,
with citations of authorities, and of notes and sugges-
tions, from various sources, on reading and the best use
of books. This department is edited by Miss C. M. Hesv-
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THE

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AN ECLECTIC REVIEW OF CURRENT LITERATURE,

Published monthly, and containing the freshest news con-
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since its inception — “a monthly record of current litera-
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terests of the book-trade, it has since the establishment of
the Publishers' Weekly, which now so thoroughly covers
that ground, aimed more directly to meet the wants of
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Its plan is to present each month a full survey of current
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and are quoted only from recognized literary journals.
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throws most light on authors and books in their relation to
life and literature. The entertaining elements are chiefly
the Prize Questions, of which two or three are given almost
every month, and the “ Literary Miscellany.” Of special
interest to the student are the “ Cues,” which give (i) refer-
ences to sources of reading on topics of the day ; (2) a
classification of the magazine contents ; (3) references to the
latest authority, as soon as recognized, on any subject of
general interest ; (4) references to bibliographies of subjects
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giving of helpful extracts, at considerable length, from
prominent books, and from the more important reviews of
them.” — Sunday-School Tijties.

“ It is almost equally impossible for most persons to read
all the new books and publications, and the criticisms on
them to be found in the best journals and reviews. There
is therefore special value in the field occupied by the
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rent literature.” — N. Y. Evening Mail.

THE

Library Journal

OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

CHIEFLY DEVOTED TO

iLibtattj IBcontung anti liiiiUcigrapi)})

VoL. 8. Nos. 9-10.

September-October, 1883.

Contents :

Page

Address of the President. J. Winsor. ... 163
Report on Cataloguing. 6'. B. Noyes. ... 166

A Modern Proteus. J. L. Whitney 172

List of Books with Changed Titles. J. L.

Whitney 175

-Supplements TO Poole’s Index. ....... 194

Washington Libraries. J. S. Billings. . . . 199

Report on Library Architecture. J: Edmunds. 201
New York State Library. H. A. Homes. . 203

Classification and Notation of the United

States. C: A. Cutter 205

Report on Fiction in Public Libraries. M.

Chamberlain 208

The Buffalo Public Library in 1983. C: A.

Cutter 211

Report on the Reading of the Young. Miss

M.. A. Bean 217

Page

The Usefulness of Libraries~in Small Towns.

Miss T. H. West 227

Report on Libraries and Schools. S: S. Green. 229
Report on Aids and Guides to Readers. W:

E. Foster 233

State Libraries : their Management and Sup-
port. Guy A . Brown ' . . . 245

The Work of the 19TH Century Librarian for

THE Librarian of the 2oth. R. R. Bozvker. 247

Plan for Numbering Congressional Documents.

J: Edmunds 250

Condensed Rules for an Author and Title

Catalog. Cooperation Committee. . . . 251

Proceedings 25S

Members Present 303

Officers and Committees of the Association. . 304

Supplement :

CO-OPERATIVE INDEX TO CURRENT PERIODICALS.

New York: F. Leypoldt, Publisher, 31 and 32 Park Row.
London: Trubner &^o., 57 and^*^ Ludgate Hill.

-yearly subscription, $4.00. MONTHLY NUMBERS, 40 cts.

Price to Europe^ or countries in the Unions 20s. per annum : single numbers^ 2s.

Entered at the Post-Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter.

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[Sept.-Oct., ’83.

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CONFERENCE OE EIBRARIANS.

BUFFALO, AUGUST, 1883.

ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT,

INCLUDING A REPORT, FOR THE YEAR, ON GENERAL LIBRARY INTERESTS, BY JUSTIN
WINSOR, LIBRARIAN OF HARVARD COLLEGE.

OUR sixth annual meeting finds us for the
first time on the frontiers of our country,
whence we can easily extend a hand of welcome
to our neighbors of the Dominion. We are
glad to find that later in the session some of
our Canadian brothers will accept it. However
tariffs and fealty may separate us, there is
nothing alien in libraries ; and why may not
Ainericaji, in a bibliothecal sense at least, in-
clude the whole brotherhood of the New World ?
We need attrition. Nothing has so much
improved the standard of library management
as this very commingling of librarians every
year. Those who are familiar with the history
of libraries in this country know that the
advance in all that makes our work a system,
and gives our calling an influence, has been
vastly greater since librarians have acquired a
neighborly habit.

The inquiry is sometimes made, “What do
you find to do and say at these meetings of
librarians ? Don’t you get talked out ?” — ‘ ‘Yes,”
we reply, ‘ ‘ but we can go home and recuperate for
another bout ; and we take home with us, too, a
kindly interest in one another ; a tincture of other
ideas than our own, wider sympathies, broader
views, and deeper meanings than are deducible
from the experiences of our little autonomies.
Such are the uses, such the fruits of these
annual gatherings.”

As I look over the topics of reports and
papers in the programme before us, and recall
the discussions which these topics have elicited

at previous meetings, I am sensible of the varied
points of view which our isolation from one
another at home and the circle of our separate
experiences have given us. It is an argument
in itself for an occasional segregation. Nor
must we expect that this social and mental
contact is going to unify all our ways. It would
be a pity if it did. Our national motto touches
us as deeply as librarians as it does as patriots,
for we are one in our diversities, — none the less
united because each finds his own way the best.
We need to be taught that there is a multiplicity
of bests. The ideal rule or system does not
imply bondage to an idea. As long as mental
action is various and experience is different,
that system is best which we best assimilate.
Time and locality, and more particularly that
element which it is the fashion to term our
personal equation, establish variety in our
ideals. The folly of dogmatism is one that
these meetings make us the better to under-
stand.

Custom has defined the scope of your presi-
dent’s address to be the recognition of what is
important in the shaping of the general library
interests of the year gone by. First in that
respect is the established fact of your cooper-
ative labor brought to a definite result. It was
a favorite thought of the elder Agassiz that
what our civilization most needed was a reserve
of money, to be applied with wise discrimination
to paying the cost of publication of contributions
to knowledge which could not be expected to

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BUFFALO CONFERENCE.

pay for themselves. The sum of human knowl-
edge is but as the transit of a minor planet
across the illimitable disk of light ; no one
knows that better than a librarian ; and, with
the true scientific instinct, Agassiz recognized
the duty of preserving, as well as studying, the
knowledge which does not stand for money
in the world’s traffic. From the inability of
the investigators to put in the costly shape of
type the result of their observations, Agassiz
reckoned that the loss to mankind was incal-
culable ; and in the first instance as pure science,
or what can be known, and secondly as applied
science, or what embellishes or elevates our
living, — a loss which is incalculable in not
only not preserving what has absolutely been
found, but which also diminishes effort because
of the absence of that incentive which makes
us work the better under the promises of a
permanent record.

At our very first meeting in Philadelphia we
were possessed of a similar thought. We had
all felt the want which Mr. Poole thirty years
ago had shown could be supplied by labor.
Since that time the burden — I use the word
advisedly — of periodical literature in a library
had become well-nigh intolerable, as all wastes
without finger-posts are. Years before, I had
urged on the secretary of the Smithsonian In-
stitution the undertaking of this work as pre-
eminently one of the diffusion of knowledge. I
got excuses of preoccupation. I had suggested
to the librarian of Congress to take the lead in
some movement ; but he was always overbur-
dened, as I was in my own definite province.

But at Philadelphia the work was done, and
community of labor established the fund that
Agassiz had dreamed of.

Its first fruits is the great index, which prop-
erly associates with it the name of our brother of
Chicago ; and of the value of that first fruit I
need not tell you. (Applause.) Important as it
is, the principle which it has made manifest is
more important still, — namely, that it is with-
in our power as a body of librarians to create, in
our combined efforts, just such a fund as Ag-
assiz longed for. Further consideration of
other schemes of a like import are, I perceive,
set down for us on the programme.

We must still regret the failure of Congress to

cancel the debt which it owes to good scholar-
ship and the largest learning. The national
library is still without adequate housing, and
the prospect of Congressional attention is not
encouraging. What Congress fails to do in its
sphere, individuals and municipalities are not
backward in accomplishing elsewhere. The
Pratt library in Baltimore approaches comple-
tion ; and a new building for the public library
of Boston is assured by ample appropriations.
These are conspicuous examples of the needs
of our great municipal libraries being hand-
somely met. Chicago, too, I believe, is in a
commotion that we may hope “ presages some
joyful news at hand.”

The new building of Columbia College, and
of the library of the University of Michigan,
almost ready for its dedication, and the plan-
ning of a new building to be erected by private
munificence, fitly to hold the library of the
University of Vermont, with its recent accession
of the collection of the late George P. Marsh, —
that accomplished scholar in more than one
department, — are instances of the watchful
interest bestowed upon what is more and more
recognized as the central force of our college
life, the college library.

There is no phase of our recent library man-
agement more striking and more- suggestive
than the growth of what may be called a prac-
tical bibliography. This science, long the
sign of recondite scholarship, is shown to be
adaptable to the wants of the less erudite. It
is becoming more and more recognized as an
indispensable help in every department of
intellectual activity. There are many reasons
for this change. It arises in part from a
clearing of the perception that it is a waste of
time for one to attempt to thrid a subject by
the first way which opens, when a full survey
of the literature of it will point him out the
better avenue. The student is otherwise in
much the same position with the inventor who
attempts the combination of mechanical
movements to a given end, before he has
examined the records of the patent office.
The past year has seen some admirable helps
in this respect in the little manuals which Mr.
Leypoldt has published, and which indicate
effectively the devoted labors of our brothers,

August, *83.]

THE LIBRARY JOURNAL,

>59

LIBRARIES AND READERS.

Chapters of suggestion and counsel on the sub-
ject of reading, the use of books and of libra-
ries. By William E. Foster, Librarian of
the Providence Public Library, and com-
piler of- the “Monthly Reference Lists.”
i6mo, cloth, 50 cents.

Contents. — Some Hints on Right Reading ; Correction of
Aimless Reading ; The Specializing of Reading, for Gen-
eral Readers ; “ Current Literature ” and “ Standard Liter-
ature Securing the Interest of a Community ; “ What
may be Done at Home ; How to Use a Library ; Books,

etc., on Reading.

“ Full of valuable suggestion and shrewd, wise counsel.”
— Boston Commonwealth.

“ Full of good sense, begotten of zeal and experience. It
should be placed in every school library.” — Bosto7i Adver-
tiser.

” Mr. Foster’s aim is to show how the aimless reader of
the ordinary public library, the man or woman who ‘ wants
a book,’ but does not know what book, or even what sort of
book, may be led to tcake a lively interest in books and the
library. Here Mr. Foster speaks as one having authority,
because in doing this very thing he has been most success-
ful. His little book is to be recommended in the highest
manner to all who seek to improve the quality of their read-
ing, or who desire to give aid and advice to others.”—
Critic.

LIBRARIES AND SCHOOLS.

Papers selected by Samuel S. Green, Librarian
of the Free Public Library, Worcester, Mass.
i6mo, cloth, 50 cents.

Addresses and papers which have done much to convince
teachers that important aid may be had in their, work, by
making a large use of libraries ; and giving accounts of suc-
cessful experiments made in different places, by librarians
and teachers, in bringing about a use of libraries which has
proved valuable to schools.

“All of these papers deserve and will no doubt receive
thoughtful consideration.” — Critic.

“ Librarians and teachers everywhere who consult this
little volume will close it with a sense of indebtedness.” —
Nation.

“Abounds in practical suggestions, and every school-
teacher ought promptly to make its acquaintance.” — Chris-
tian Register.

“Nothing could be better than the suggestions which the
book contains for facilitating the steps of young scholars to
the libraries.” — Boston Advertiser.

F. LEYPOLDT, Publisher, New York,

BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG

A Guide for Parents and Children, compiled by C. hl.

Hewins, Librarian of Hartford Library Association.

Price in paper, 25 cents.

“ Meets most admirably the demand for carefully selected
lists, and contains valuable and interesting counsel.” —
W. E. Foster.

“ Contains an admirable selection of books for children,
and by far the best catalogue of books of this kind that has
ever appeared.” — S. S. Green.

“Miss C. M. Hewins, of Hartford, has long been known
to all who are interested in making the public library the
ally of the public schools, as one of the most successful of
modern librarians of the American school. ... A book
which it is difficult to praise too highly.” — Critic.

“ Deserves more extended praise than we have space for.
It will bring joy to the hearts of hundreds of parents, whose
confidence in the compiler’s judgment will lie assured by
her prefatory remarks and directions, and her choice ex-
tracts from divers authorities on the true aim and criterion
of juvenile literature.” — Nation.

“ A little manual long needed, and one that will be hearti-
ly welcomed by parents who recognize the importance of
carefully supervising their children’s reading, but are often
confused and at a loss on account of the multitude of works
for the young now published, of every conceivable degree
of merit and demerit. A classified list of good books is
given, with indications as to the age and sex to which they
are best suited. The list is prefaced by hints as to how
children should be taught the right use of books, a note on
good reading in English and American history for children,
and a ‘ symposium’ on children’s books, containing interest-
ing extracts from many sources. Miss Hewins has charge
of the department ‘ Literature for the Young ’ in Libra-
ry Journal, is librarian of the Hartford Library, and may
safely be accepted as an authority and guide by parents
and buyers of children’s books.” — Good Literature.

F. LEYPOLDT, Publisher, New York.

Monthly Reference Lists

A GUIDE FOR THE READER AND STUDENT
TO TRUSTWORTHY SOURCES OF INFOR-
MA TION ON CURRENT TOPICS.

Prepared by WILLIAM E. FOSTER,

Librarian Providence Public Library.

Terms, $i per year, 10 cents per number.
Sample copies furnished on application.

Address F. . Publisher,

31 and 3* Park Row, New York.

“ . . . The most noticeable and perhaps the most valua-
ble feature of Mr. Foster’s reference lists is the topical sub-
division of the main subject. For a student or teacher, the
‘ structural bibliography ’ is much more valuable and sug-
gestive than a long list of authorities, which, in some cases,
would be hardly better than a catalogue.” — Herbert B.
Adams, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, in the N. E .
Hist, and Geneal. Register, Jan., 1883.

i6o

THE LIBRARY JOURNAL.

[August, ’83.

TAe Publishers' IPeekly.

THE AMERICAN BOOK-TRADE JOURNAL.

F. LEFFOLDT, Editor.

The Publishers’ Weekly, established in 1872, with which was incorporated the American
Literary Gazette and Ptcblishers' Circular {esiahWshed in 1852), by purchase from Mr. George W.
Childs, is recognized as the independent representative of the publishing and bookselling interests
in the United States.

The central feature of the paper, that makes it an indispensable aid to the trade, to libraries,
and to literary people, is its Bibliographical Department. Every possible facility of reference is
afforded by a combination of methods which records the books, by the week, the month, the
season, and the year, under the author, the publisher, the title, the subject, and the class. It is.
acknowledged that no other journal, at home or abroad, supplies as practical and satisfactory a
record of the publications of its country.

The bibliographical department includes ;

1. A “ Weekly Record" of all new American publications and reprints, giving their full titles (according to the rules of
the American Library Association), with place and date of publication, publisher’s name, size, number of pages, and price ;
and also descriptive notes of books received. This first and practically the official record is arranged alphabetically by the
authors or titles^ and for ready reference is placed in the same accessible position in each number.

2. A weekly “ Order List," being brief-title entries, with prices, of the “Weekly Record,” arranged alphabetically
by the publishers. The object of this list is to present at a glance the simultaneous issues of certain publishers, and to
save time in the making up of orders.

3. A monthly Index to the Weekly Record," being short-title entries, with the publisher’s name and the size and
price, arranged alphabetically by the authors, •with references front the titles or catchiuords, and from the subjects.
With each entry is “given also the number of the “ Weekly Record” containing the full-title entry and note.

S- A semi-annual classified list of Forthcoming Publications, given in the Spring and Fall Announcement numbers,
in which also the announced books are more fully described under the name of the publishers, arranged alphabetically.

7. Regular Lists of the Season, published as follows : A complete priced catalogue of Educational Books, in July ; a
priced list of the Holiday Books and prominent Juvenile Books of the year, in November ; a supplementary list of new
Educational Books, in February ; a list of Guide and Summer Books, in May.

8. Quarterly lists of the Publications of the U. S. Govermnent.

9. Semi-monthly lists of the more prominent New English Books.

10. Special Bibliographies. The timely bibliography, now in course of publication, is “ Literary Property : ” a cata-
logue of books and authors relating to literary property (copyright, international copyright, and kindred subjects), by
Thorvald Solberg.

The Literary Depaidment includes comprehensive intelligence as to books forthcoming and
publishing movements, at home and abroad, gathered with the aid of representatives in other
cities ; editorial discussions on book and trade subjects, as copyright, postal questions, book
production and manufacture, etc. ; original contributions and representative extracts on like
topics ; topical “cues ” or references to bibliographical sources or courses of reading and study ;
journalistic notes ; business notes ; literary and trade notes, etc.

A minor but practical and convenient feature is the “ Books Wanted ” column, giving sub-
scribers the privilege of a free insertion of five lines in each issue.

Terms, $3.20 per year, 10 cents per number. Sample copies furnished on application.

Address F. LEYPOLDT, PUBLISHER,

31 AND 32 Park Row, New York.

ADDRESS OE THE PRESIDENT.

Green, of Worcester, and Foster, of Provi-
dence.

Men now living may remember the beginning
of what may be called the missionary career of
libraries. It may be said to have begun in this
country in the foundation of social, apprentices’,
and mercantile libraries. There was indeed a
start as long ago as Benjamin Franklin founded
the Philadelphia library, still doing its good
work to-day ; but nothing like general interest
was taken in the movement till the second
quarter of the present century.

Thereupon followed, in due time, what we
now understand by the free library system,
which, without any concert of action, also began
in England about the same time ; but with us
it moved more rapidly, and even here it is
confined for the most part to narrow geograph-
ical limits.

At about even date with this development in
its earlier stages, a question of library purpose
was brought to an issue in New York. Mr.
Astor had left what was, in those days, a very
large endowment for a library. He had not
himself been disposed to that form of munifi-
cence, and had rather preferred to signify his
regard for his adopted country in a huge
monument to Washington ; but Dr. Cogswell,
who was his adviser, prevailed upon him to endow
a library. The question to be decided was,
whether that library should assist in the edu-
cation of the people directly or indirectly, -and
this was a proposition on the decision of which
there was no doubt in Dr. Cogswell’s mind.
He held some views regarding the public
relations of libraries which were proper, and
some which time has not justified. He argued
that for the diffusion of knowledge the initiative
might well be left to the people, who knew how
to take care of themselves. In that he was
right. He also expressed his confidence that
a free public library could not be maintained and
protected in a large city. In this he was wrong ;
as the experiment tried in Boston and elsewhere
has shown. With such views there was of
course but one scheme for a library which
he could accept, and so he made his argument
thus : “ There is no way so effectual to diffuse
knowledge through a community as by elevating
the standard and creating the greatest possible

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number of highly educated men! They become
(he says) the living teachers, diffusing and
disseminating knowledge much more widely
and judiciously than is ever done by books.”

One hardly wishes to quarrel with such a
conclusion, for, in some respects, it is a prudent
one ; but in other respects it is a survival of a
feeling which has its tap-root in the cloudy
past.

The truth is, no exclusive or vicarious system
of library nourishment is sufficient. The student
certainly needs the incitement of the personal
contact of the teacher. The librarian in his
office sees the effect he can have upon those
who seek his counsel. Mr. Poole, in his oc-
casional and friendly talks to his constituents
at Chicago, and the same sort of work which
has been done at the public library at Melbourne
for some years, and which, under many different
phases, is the mission of many other librarians, is
certainly giving a new power to librarianship.
But for all this the reader needs the personal
contact of the books themselves quite as much.
The two schemes are fitly reciprocal, as we are
every day showing at Cambridge, and are by
no means alone in doing so.

The issue which Dr. Cogswell sought to make
(and as he seemed to think in the interests of
scholarship) was an Old-World issue, which
had always, among old civilization, been de-
cided one way.

The argument was simply an excuse — the
traditionary excuse — of a habit which had been
accustomed to regard libraries simply as book-
piles whence writers and scholars could
replenish their intellectual fires, and not as
agencies for the making of books useful to the
many. The idea of the m|sSsionary character
of a library has a certain repulsiveness in the
minds of those who have had charge of the
great libraries of Europe uji to a very recent
period, for the break of a dawn has hardly yet
mellowed into a universal light. In this ven-
erable estimate libraries are institutions to be
sought by those who have a definite search,
and they do not stand, as they ought, for al-
lurements and invitations. It is something
that American librarians may well take a pride
in, that they have signalized themselves as
leaders in this new and healthy cause.

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CATALOGUING.

YEARLY REPORT BY S. B. NOYES, LIBRARIAN OF THE BROOKLYN LIBRARY,
BROOKLYN, N. Y.

A LIBRARY without a catalogue,” says
Thomas Carlyle, “is the most strange
conceivable object ; the worst catalogue that was
ever drawn up by the hand of man is preferable
to no catalogue at all.” If we are not all of us
prepared to go quite so far as this, we can, at
least, admit that a library is comparatively use-
less without a proper equipment of good
catalogues ; and I think that we are all glad to
know that Carlyle’s other dictum — that the
British Museum ought to print catalogues that
the literary man can take home with him — is
now in process of realization. It is authorita-
tively stated that the growing physical difficul-
ties attendant on the use of two or three
thousand elephant folio volumes of the cata-
logue led to the final decision to print it. This
may have been a sufficient reason, but it may
well be doubted if it was the sole or even the
controlling motive, when we recollect that even
as late as the International Library Conference
in London, in 1877, Mr. John Winter Jones,
then the principal librarian, summed up the
objections to printing a catalogue — apart from
the question of expense, and the small proba-
bility that the outlay would ever be repaid — as
resting upon the impossibility of keeping the
catalogue on a level with the actual state of the
library, adding that this objection did not
apply to printing catalogues of special classes
of books where the collection in the library
may be nearly complete, or the additions few
and slow of acquisition, as in the case of
Hebrew, Chinese, and Sanscrit books, and
collections of mss. Nevertheless, numerous
detached sections of the main alphabet of
authors, each embracing from one to two
hundred pages, have already been printed ;
among the most recently issued being those
devoted to Byron and to Virgil. The section
devoted to Swedenborg literature is, I am
informed, already out of print as an extra
issue. It is to be regretted that in the cross-

references to the main alphabet the place of
publication (or its initial) , as well as the date
and size, is not given, thus giving such entries a
certain completeness. The accessions of new
books are also being printed. Mr. Axon states
that it is hoped that in the course of forty
years the printed will have entirely superseded
the written entries, and proposes that the
present generation of scholars and readers
apply a gentle pressure to the Treasury, and
try to persuade the authorities that a catalogue
of the national library is worth as much as an
iron-clad, and should be printed at once, even
if it does involve an expenditure of ^100,000.
If the Treasury can give the Trustees of the
Library ^80,000 in one sum for the purchase of
one private collection of materials for history,
surely a catalogue of the library in its existing
state has at least as pressing claims for recog-
nition. The accession lists, it is reported, are
being stereotyped, and will thus be of use in
any future issue of the general or of special
catalogues. Special catalogues of mss. with
photographic fac-similes of papyri and volumes
of a date earlier than the close of the 9th
century are promised.

It is reported that the 723 volumes of the
catalogue of the Bodleian Library are being
paged, and an officer will be employed for some
years to come in revising all headings and
titles, and indexing all extensive articles.

In the Monthly notes of the Association of
the United Kingdom there is a notice of vol. 2
of the “ Catalogue of the Library of the Royal
Institution, with indexes of authors and sub-
jects. By Benjamin Vincent, librarian.” To
quote from the “ Monthly notes,” it is compiled
upon the plan of the former volume, with the
same loose transcription of titles, and the same
elaborately unscientific classification. It in-
cludes additions to the library between 1857
and 1882, and numbers about 400 pages.

Part 2, M-Z, of the supplement to the Cata-

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logue of the Society of writers to H. M. Signet
in Scotland makes a volume of more than 600
pages.

The Library Journal briefly notices the
elaborate catalogue of the Aargauische Kantons-
bibliothek, vol. i — Archaeology, Art, History,
Geography, and Ethnography. Aarau, 1881 ;
1,000 pages, 1. 8®.

Volume 3, Chol-Dz, of Dr. Billings’ monu-
mental catalogue of the Library of the U.S.
Surgeon-General’s office has appeared during the
year. It embraces about 46,000 entries, inclu-
sive of articles in periodicals. About 4,335
portraits are also indexed.

In this country the catalogue work of the past
year has been signalized by the completion of the
first volume of the admirable catalogue of the
valuable library of the Peabody Institute, of
Baltimore, as was the work of last year by the
completion of the last volume of the equally
admirable and valuable catalogue of the Boston
Athenaeum. The Peabody Institute catalogue
promises to be of equal extent with that of its
older brother. The library, as catalogued, num-
bers 80,000 volumes ; the number of references
in vol. I, as given in the preface, is 61,184,
which would give over 300,000 for the com-
pleted work ; varying not much, I believe, from
the number recorded in the Athenaeum cata-
logue. It is likewise a fine example of beauti-
ful and correct typography. The page is about
the size of that of the Athenaeum catalogue.
Par nobile fratruml — the two should stand on
the same shelf in every library that shall be
fortunate enough to possess them.

Periodicals, the publications of the learned
societies (except their scientific divisions) , and
historical, antiquarian, and other miscellaneous
collections are all indexed, and the references
distributed under their respective heads ; the
number of pages in each article being given,
the volume and the page, with author’s name
when known, and, if a periodical, the year in
which it was printed.

The contents of collective works are alpha-
betized under the most distinct word of their
specific parts, and, to use a printer’s term, are
run in, thus saving much room ; though the
practice is open to the objection of interfering
with the bibliographical description of the work.

volume by volume . As respects analysis , I notice
under the head Burial, references to articles
contained in Archaeologia ; Journal of the Royal
Asiatic Society, Bombay ; Gronovius, Thesaurus
Gr. Antiq. ; Institute de France, Acad, inscript.
M6moires ; Brussels Acad., Nouvelles m6m. ;
and numerous other periodicals. Under Calen-
dar we find 6 principal entries occupying 13
lines, while 70 analytical entries, each of from
I to 200 pages in length, occupy 147 lines. In
respect to title entries, one may perhaps justly
complain that there are too many of 'them.
Under Chemical analysis I find 4 title-entries of
books, which are given again under Chemistry,
along with others upon the same subject. A
one-line cross-reference to Chemistry would have
been better. Such title entries as “Classified
mercantile directory for New York and Brook-
lyn. Disturnell (J-)-” “Celebration by the
Pilgrim Society at Plymouth, Dec. 21, 1870,”
are not infrequently met with, entered under the
first word of the title. The fault is simply one
of surplusage ; but when such titles as I have
instanced are numerous they are very much in
the way, besides continually educating the pub-
lic to most inaccurate and careless habits of in-
quiry. To parody Spenser’s lines we may say
to the cataloguer : —

“ Be full, be full, and everywhere be full, — be not too full.”

One feature of this catalogue, and of Dr.
Billings’ Medical “ Index Catalogue,” seems to
be well deserving of imitation in similar works.
I mean the repetition in the same bold-faced
type of the words indicating the class-heading
before each subordinate heading, the latter
being printed in Italic, so that the eye by
running down the column can quickly take in
the extent of subdivision, and strike the one
wanted, e.g.. Architecture : Brick, Stone, etc. ;
Architecture: Building; Architecture: Cottages;
Architecture: Decoration; Architecture: Dic-
tionaries, etc., the subordinate subdivisions
being arranged in alphabetical order.

Mr. Morison, provost and chief librarian,
states in his preface that the catalogue is con-
structed on the idea — in my opinion the correct
one — that the best possible catalogue is that
which makes known to the average reader the

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entire contents of a library. “ Books,” he contin-
ues, “ belonging to broad classes of knowledge ”
(I quote from the preface), “are distributed
under the various subordinate divisions, instead
of being drawn together under general heads.
While the scientific reader might prefer to have
before him a conspectus of the whole class, the
average reader will be likely to look for a book
under the specific head to which it belongs —
for a book on birds under Ornithology, rather
than under Natural History, or for a book on
trees under Forestry, rather than under Botany.”
This I think will by no means command uni-
versal assent. My own experience is that the
average reader will look for a book on birds
either under Birds or under Natural History,
and for a work on trees will look under Trees,
and not under Forestry. The contention is,
however, that the average reader will be more
likely to be helped by isolating particulars in
the general alphabet than by aggregating them
under comprehensive headings. This does not
agree with my own experience, which is that
the average reader learns the use of the word
Botany before he knows aught of cryptogams
and phanerogams ; the word Insect before he
knows aught of articulates.

Of course every child knows something about
the more common flowers and insects, but it
takes him some time to learn that whole vol-
umes are devoted to a single class or species,
and the best way to teach him what books your
library has on all sorts of flowers and insects
is to place them under the respective headings
Botany TmU Insects, the individual flowers or
insects constituting an alphabetical series, so
that the average reader can readily see all that
the library has, and not waste time in searching
indefinitely in the general alphabet for headings
which perhaps do not exist.

When a reader or student requests permis-
sion to go to the shelves of a library, what
terms does he generally use? Usually those
designating broad classes, such as Biography,
History, Travels, Natural History, Medicine,
etc., the highways of science and literature. I
think that he likes to consult a catalogue in the
same manner, and when he finds all the allied
specials arrayed under a common heading, he
is rejoiced.

If the inquirer be a specialist in the proper
sense of the word, he will be glad to learn that
all the allied portions of his department are
grouped together. If he is not a specialist he
will be equally glad to find subjects and topics
whose names would not readily have occurred
to him, arranged in a simple alphabetical order
under a more general and familiar class-
heading.

It seems to me a somewhat anomalous state
of things that gentlemen who have displayed
the utmost ingenuity in devising most elaborate
and excellent systems for classifying books
upon the shelves should nevertheless be content
to have the disjecta 7Ttenibra of that classifica-
tion scattered throughout four or five thousand
pages of a printed catalogue.

I cannot admit that the average reader will
find the system of specific subject entries
altogether simple and intelligible when I ob-
serve striking instances of variation in two
such representative catalogues as those of the
Boston Athenaeum Library, and the Peabody
Institute. Let me note a few of them. In the
Athenaeum catalogue American biography is
a subdivision of America ; in the Baltimore
catalogue it is an independent heading. In the
first volume of the Baltimore catalogue (letter
A) I find such independent headings as Amer-
ican ballads, American biography (collective
works), American fiction (class-list), American
literature (collective works), American poetry
(class-list) ; all of which are to be looked for in
the 5th vol. of Athenaeum catalogue under U.
Ana and Anecdotes are distinct headings in the
latter catalogue ; in the former they are con-
solidated. Under American colonies in the
Athenaeum catalogue there are 5 cross-refer-
ences to ultimate sources of information ; in the
Peabody Institute catalogue only one title e7itry.
Under Anatomy in the former catalogue there
are fifty cross-references to independent related
headings including one to Comparative Anat-
omy; in the latter there are but 5 cross-
references, and Comparative Anatomy is a sub-
division of Anatomy. On the other hand His-
tology is a subdivision of Anatomy in the former
catalogue ; an independent heading in the latter.
Works on the bones are placed under Bones in
the former catalogue ; under Osteology in the

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latter. In the former catalogue*are such sub-
ject headings as Aiiciciit art, Ancient geog-
raphy, Ancient history; in the latter (the
Baltimore) catalogue there are 2 title entries
under Ancient arf; but no cross-references, and
under Ancient geography and Ancient history,
there are cross-refere?ices oiily to Geography
and History. In the Athenceum catalogue not
more than 10 title entries are found with the
initial word Ancient] in the Baltimore cata-
logue there are more than 70, among which,
curiously enough, does not appear Ancient
classics for English readers, which is entered
in full elsewhere under the editor's name. In
the Boston catalogue there is no title entry
beginning with Anecdotes] in the Baltimore
catalogue there are 16. In the one a cross-
reference leads from Animal chemistry and
Animals to Zoology ; in the other we have two
title entries under Animal chemistry, but
Animals and Animal heat are independent
headings. In the one there are 17 entries under
Annual registers ; in the other, only one.
Apocryphal gospels is an independent heading
in the one ; in the other a subdivision of
Bible. In the one “ Arabia and Arabs ” covers
the sub-headings Art, Description, History and
Antiquities, Langim^e, Literature and Science ;
in the other we find “ Arabia ” covers the sub-
headings Law, Numismatics , Religion,

Science, Weights and Measures ] but afterwards
we meet with Arabian antiquities of Spain,
Arabic inscriptions — see Lnscriptions, Arabic
language, Arabic literature, Arabic poetry,
Arabic proverbs. In the one we have no such
subdivisions of Architecture as Cottages —
Decoration — Ecclesiastical — Materials — Me-
diaeval— Military — School-houses, or Amer-
ican — Anglo-Saxon — Byzantine — Gothic —
Grecian — Norman — Romanesque, for which
we must search other letters of the alphabet.
In the one there is, under Art, a cross-reference
to Arts, Fine; in the other there is no cross-
reference from Art to Arts, Fine, though there
are tenfold the number of title entries ; but
under Arts, Fine, we find a cross-reference to
Fine Arts. In the one works on design are
placed under Design ] in the other, under Arts
of design. I could go on indefinitely with
similar illustrations, but I think I have already

demonstrated that neither the average reader
nor the special student is sure of finding what
he is in search of under identical headings in
any two special-subject dictionary catalogues.

The Fall River Public Library catalogue has
been very favorably and fully noticed in the
Library Journal, v. 8, p. 80. It gives the
contents of collective works, essays, etc., is
largely analytical, an4 numerous notes of a
discursive character help to direct the reader in
his choice of books, or to open up sources of
information. In its treatment of certain de-
partments of science and literature it more
nearly resembles the Brooklyn Library cata-
logue than any other I have met with, except-
ing that of the Cleveland Public Library refer-
ence department. Authors, titles, subjects,
and classes are included in one general alpha-
bet. Under Astronomy and Meteorology is
gathered the entire literature of the subjects.
Fine arts has some twelve subdivisions, but
relegates various art topics to the general
alphabet for reasons not obvious. The union
of Natural Science and Natural Philosophy as
a subject heading — Zoology forming a separate
heading — does not appear to me so happy as
the general treatment of subject matters, and,
by a curious disruption, two-thirds of Devo-
tional Theology are found under Devotional ;
the other third forming a subdivision of
Theology. Collective Biography, Drama, and
Fiction form complete class-lists. In the
endeavor to please everybody the entries in the
class-lists of Drama and Fiction have also been
distributed throughout the alphabet, — a singular
bit of liberality on the part of the library, as
it adds a hundred pages to the book. Ency-
clopaedias and Cyclopaedias are distinct head-
ings. Both in this and the Indianapolis
Public Library catalogue the heading “Dic-
tionaries” has numerous subdivisions. The
catalogue as a whole makes a handsome
octavo volume of about 950 pages, printed in
double columns on an excellent grade of paper.

Mr. Vinton’s subject-catalogue of the Library
of Princeton, everywhere bears the marks of
his scholarly and painstaking qualities. It is
not a classed catalogue, but I think it shows a
marked tendency to broader groupings, than
older types of the dictionary catalogue. Archi-

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lecture, for example, includes such sub-headings
as 2^' ranee, Gerniany, Great Britain, Ilindo-
stan, Italy. Under Ballads are such divisions
as Danish, English, French, Germa7i, etc.,
quite an advance in the right direction. Biog-
raphy also has subdivisions of countries.
Drama includes subdivisions by national
distinctions. Essays is a class-heading. I
note under Language ^uch subdivisions as
African, Celtic, Classic, Indian, Indo-gerinanic,
Semitic', but all other special languages are
distributed through the alphabet, under the
qualifying adjective. Under Law, Admiralty
is a subdivision, but we must look for Evi-
dence, and other legal subjects in their respec-
tive places in the general alphabet. Medicine
has cross-references for all subdivisions. Like
the Peabody Institute catalogue varieties of
language and literatnre are sometimes placed
under the country, sometimes under the
qualifying adjective. Such inconsistencies are
common, but the directions for the reader are
everywhere abundant, and the system of cross-
references is very complete. It is a matter for re-
gret that the references to parts of books refer the
reader to the shelf-number of the book, instead
of the book itself, a custom inherited from the
Boston Public Library, Bates Hall Index. The
work will number when completed about 700
pages, octavo, double columns.

At Professor Young’s instance, Mr. Vinton
has printed in a pamphlet by itself a complete
class-list of the astronomical portion of the
library, including a number of tributary subjects
that will form independent headings in the
main subject-catalogue, and presenting an
excellent illustration of what has been at-
tempted in the Brooklyn Library catalogue.

Mr. S. S. Green, librarian of the Worcester
Free Library, is printing a catalogue of the
circulating portion only of his library. It
includes authors, titles, and special subjects ;
gives contents and analysis of polygraphic
works ; omits imprints, but records titles with
considerable fulness. Will make about 1,000
one-column pages, octavo. A feature peculiar
to this catalogue is the printing in large (or
brevier) type the first title, whether under the
name of author, or under the subject-heading,
and the remaining titles in a tyualler (or non-

pareil) type. Simple title entries are always
printed in the larger type. The execution of
the work, which is intelligent and painstaking,
is credited to Miss Earle, the head of the
cataloguing department of the library.

Mr. Linderfelt, of the Milwaukee Public Li-
brary, has printed a systematic classed catalogue
(112 octavo pages, double column) of the
German portion of his library, with fourteen
principal class-lists. Romances and novels
(authors and titles) and plays (authors and
titles) form sections of the class literature.
The work is very well done, and a catalogue of
the English portion of the library, constructed
with the same scientific thoroughness, with
such modifications as its intended use by
English readers might suggest, would seem to
be the next thing in order for Mr. Linderfelt to
undertake.

Mr. J. L. Beardsley, librarian of the Cleve-
land Public Library, has completed the printing
of a subject-catalogue of the books in the refer-
ence department only of his library, alphabeti-
cally arranged. It embraces about 10,000
volumes; 136 pages royal octavo, double
columns. The classification is in some measure
based uj)on that of the Brooklyn Library
catalogue. Both general works and special
topics are included under such class-headings
as “ Agriculture and Horticulture ; ” “ Amuse-
ments, Games, etc. Architecture; Arts (use-
ful) and Manufactures ; Astronomy ; biblical,
religious and ecclesiastical Literature ; Bibliog-
raphy ; Biography (collective and individual) ;
Language, etc. etc. Countries do not form a
clasS-list, as in the Brooklyn catalogue, but are
in their alphabetical place in the general alpha-
bet. I was surprised not to find any index of
special subjects, as in the class lists of Mr.
Dewey’s catalogues and those of the Chicago
Public Library. Mr. Beardsley is of opinion
that one might be of use, though, as experience
has proved, not essential to the every-day use
of the catalogue by the public.

The first portion of a catalogue of the Indian-
apolis Public Library, letters A to C, has been
completed by the librarian, Mr. Tyler. It is
made on the usual special subject dictionary
plan. Cross-references are well cared for, and
many works are analyzed. A very commend-

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171

able feature in the direction of intelligent
economy is the occasional reference to other
catalogues for the contents of extensive collec-
tive works. Synonymous subject-headings are
generally consolidated.

The Catalogue of the Harris Institute, of
Woonsocket, R.I., is a very suggestive work,
as indeed might be predicated of anything from
Mr. Dewey. It is made on his well-known
numerico-quadrilateral scheme. I am heartily
in accord with Mr. Dewey in his preference for
broad classification, but find it difficult to stretch
all the innumerable and minute subjects of re-
search upon the procrustean bed of te7i general
classes. It is highly important that every cata-
loguer should have firmly grasped some general
scheme of classification ; but ten classes are, in
my opinion, too few. It seems to me also
preferable to consolidate in one alphabet the
author, title, and classed portions of the cata-
logue. Is the nnmerical arrangement of classes
indispensable to this system in a printed cata-
logue ?

Mr. W. E. Foster, of the Providence Public
Library, has printed his “ First ^Supplement ”
to the “ Finding-List ” of 1880. Like that, it is
an arrangement of authors and titles in one
alphabet. Biographies, however, are arranged
under their subjects. No imprints are given.
An interesting feature of the “Finding-List”
is the “ Index to Pseudonyms,” which fills pp.
53 to 61.

Catalogues of English fiction have been issued
by the Peoria Public Library and the Cleveland
Public Library.

Dr. Homes, of the New York State Library,
has published, during the year, the “ First Sup-
plement to the Subject-index of the General Li-
brary, 1872-1882.” It is an octavo, numbering
420 pages, and is an excellent catalogue of short
titles entered, for the most part, under the special
subject, with cross-references to related head-
ings. Analysis of contents and classification
has been carried very much further than in
the main Subject-index, printed in 1872, and
many subject-references are given to books
previously in the library which treated of sub-
jects not indicated upon their title-pages. It is
of much value, especially for historical refer-
ences.

Mr. Perkins, of the San Francisco Free
Public Library, has printed a short title-cata-
logue, including author’s names, titles, and
subjects of books in English (not including
fiction and juveniles) added since November,
1880. In addition there are complete class-
lists of English novels in the library (authors
and titles), and juvenile books (authors and
titles), and (by authors) of all the books in
the library in German, French, Spanish,
Swedish, Latin, and other languages. In
octavo, double columns, 341 pages.

The Boston Public Library has issued a
catalogue of books in the South End Branch
Library, and the cataloguing of the Barton
Library is nearly completed. The Bulletins of
the Boston Public Library, Harvard University
Library, Cornell University, continue to con-
tribute valuable additions to our store of special
bibliography. The annotated book-lists of the
Boston Athenaeum Library, and the Buffalo,
Worcester, Milwaukee, and various other
libraries, are useful and popular guides for the
general reader.

There has been a new issue, with additions of
the popular “Finding-Lists,” of the Chicago
Public Library. Mr. Poole expects shortly to
print a new and consolidated edition. The
“Finding-Lists” are short-title class-lists of
the main departments, printed with primary
reference to economy, and are not to be con-
founded with the general unprinted catalogue
of the library. Nothing can be more unlike the
ordinary “ author, title, and characteristic
word” type of dictionary catalogue than this.
Perhaps at some future time Mr. Poole may
give us a useful combination of the two
methods.

The catalogue of the East Hampton Public
Library Association numbers 218 pages, octavo,
one column, very neatly and correctly printed.
Its method is substantially that of the catalogue
of the Library of the Linonian Society, Yale
College, printed in New Haven, in 1846.
Works are catalogued under the name of the
author, under the characteristic word of the
title, and, in the case of novels, under the first
word, of the title not an article. No notes, nor
analysis, nor cross-references. One column
and imprints. I suppose it is the fault of the

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system that “ Wonders of the Deep” does not
appear under “Ocean” or “Sea.”

Miss Harriet H. Ames’ Catalogue of the
Ames Free Library, at North Easton, Mass., is
a very handsome single-line volume of 883
pages, octavo. It is a very perfect specimen
of the special subject type of dictionary
catalogue, including authors, titles, and sub-
jects. Cross-references are very fully supplied,
the contents of collective works are analyzed,
and paper, print, and proof-reading are of the
best.

The First Supplement of the Catalogue of
the Winchester Town Library, prepared by
Mr. C. A. Cutter, includes a subject-index to
the original catalogue as well as to itself. The
classification of this catalogue lias original
features, and is worthy of careful study.

In the field of special bibliography the place
of honor should be given to two bibliographies
of Petrarchan and Dantean literature, respect-
ively, by Professor Willard Fiske, until recently
librarian of Cornell University, and Julius
Petzholdt, the eminent bibliographer. The
title of Professor Fiske’s bibliography is “ A

catalogue of Petrarch Books.” Ithaca, N.Y.,
1882, 67 pages quarto. Full titles, collations,
and bibliographical notes. Printed by the
University press, of Ithaca. Edition 160 copies
(80 on Whatman paper, 80 on American
tinted paper) . The work is well described in
the Library Journal, as a credit to American
bibliography, and fitted to remove the reproach
sometimes made of a want of “antiquarian”
interest in our work. The title of Dr. Petz-
holdt’s work is “ Catalogus Bibliothecae Danteae
Dresdensis. Edidit Julius Petzholdt,” Lipsiae,
1882. 8vo.

On the whole, the conviction seems to be in-
creasing and deepening that libraries, if they
are to fill their full measure -of usefulness, must
make their treasures accessible to the public.
For if books are worth storing and preserving,
with all the incidental expense of library main-
tenance, is it not worth while to put a mere
fraction of their whole cost into such a record
of them as shall be permanently useful? or
shall the great library be permitted to drift
further and further from the standard of ideal
usefulness.

A MODERN PROTEUS.

BY JAMES L. WHITNEY, PRINCIPAL ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN, BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY.

PROTEUS, the story goes, could assume
many shapes to escape the interviewer.
His many sons and daughters, no doubt, in-
herited his propensities and passed them on to
succeeding generations. When members of
the family first came to America is not clearly
ascertained. Perhaps with the great naviga-
tor, whom they may have granted to be now
Colombo, and again Colon, or Columbus,
and to lie buried at the same time in
two different places, for a perplexity to the
archaeologist. However that may be, here
they have been found in increasing numbers
ever since, assuming forms corporeal and in-
corporeal, as multiform and elusive as their
great original.

According to all accounts, Proteus must have

been a most exasperating person, and, certainly,
his descendants have proved, like him, a per-
plexity and a plague. That they should be
such to the rest of mankind is not surprising ;
for, like the dwellers in Plato’s Cave, they are,
for the most part, satisfied with the shadow,
ignorant or indifferent if there be a reality be-
side. But that the librarian, whose eye is
single and whose calling apart, should find his
way hedged in, is hard to understand. To him
everything is supposed to be simple and with-
in grasp, — an author, for example, an author
(surname and Christian name), and a title a
title, — these only, and no more.

Those of us, however, who spend our days
in the pursuit of pseudonyms, come at last to
feel that everything is but a shadow, of which a

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corresponding substance must be, far or near,
to find ; that nothing comes in single shape, and
nothing is what it appears upon the surface.

Of pseudonyms, however, although Proteus
may well hav6 been the father of the race, it is
not my intention here to speak. If they come
as shadows, they may, to-day at least, so de-
part.

Strange to say, the foes which baffle the
librarian are often of his own household, and
among his closest friends, even the books in-
trusted to his charge. And, although Richard
de Bury tells him that, “ If, investigating, you
interrogate them they conceal nothing,” as he
reads their titles and turns over their pages he
has a suspicion that all is not honest about them,
and that they are but the shadows of something
he has seen before ; and, going to the shelves,
he finds often that under other titles they have
for years, it may be, already done service.

And this is the modern Proteus to whom I
invite your attention. Let us all join hands and
form a ring, and see if he escape us this time.

I remember reading, some time ago, a let-
ter in the Evening Post, of New York, from Mr.
Brentano, the bookseller, in which he com-
plained of the annoyance and loss to which he
and others had been subjected by publishers giv-
ing to a book more than one title. I had already
detected such cases, and since that time have
watched somewhat closely for them. It may
be worth the while to give here a few examples,
that they may serve to put librarians, and
especially those forming new libraries, on their
guard, and may perhaps induce publishers to
give a more careful attention to the subject.

Although Mr. Brentano calls this practice a
“modern fraud” of the publisher, and others
have denounced it equally unsparingly, it is to
be borne in mind that these double publica-
tions often occur through thoughtlessness rather
than from any cunningly devised scheme of
wrong. Cases are frequent, indeed, which
would seem, to all intents and purposes, to be
fraud ; as where a publisher, obtaining the
stereotype plates of a book which has had its
day, removes the certificate of copyright, and,
making other changes to conceal its identity,
gives it a new title and a new lease of life.
Often, however, it would seem to be the result

of inadvertence, the publisher, for instance,
not realizing that, when he gives to a book a
title to his mind more agreeable or appropriate
than its original one, any harm can come
of it. With the best of motives, however, he
may well consider whether the gain resultant
can compensate for the loss and confusion
which are likely to arise. If it be added that
changes in the titles of books are rarely im-
provements, the argument is still stronger
against them. The title given, it may be said,
has in many cases been adopted by the author
himself, because it is a key to the char-
acter of the book, or may point its moral, or
be suggested by some of its incidents. For
good and sufficient reasons he has chosen it,
and why should it be changed without cause?
For like reasons, in translations of foreign
books, the title should reproduce the original
one as closely as possible. This is often not
the case, and the title is generally weakened by
the change. Apart from the question of truth-
fulness, what gain, for example, can there be
in rendering Victor Hugo’s “ L’ homme qui
rit” as “By order of the king”? Or, take
the case of Du Boisgobey’s “ La main coupee,”
that is, “ The severed hand,” — so called from
a sensational incident at the opening of the
story, — why make the title read “The lost
casket”? By such changes the reader is often
hopelessly confused as to what an author may
or may not have written. To connect, for ex-
ample, some of the American translations of
Dumas from their titles, and, for that matter,
from anything to be found in the text, with
their originals, is a difficult, not to say an im-
possible, undertaking.

Sometimes a change of title seems to be un-
avoidable. George MacDonald, having given to
a book of miscellaneous matter the title “ Orts,”
after it had been printed and too late for a
change, was horrified to find in the dictionary
that one meaning of the word is “ Worthless
leavings, or refuse.” Here one could hardly
blame the American publisher for choosing
another title ; or even the publisher of Charles
Dudley Warner’s “ Mummies and Moslems,”
the tide of which, apparently, being found
gloomy and forbidding, gave place in a second
edition to one more agreeable.

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The author, or the publisher, occasionally
frankly announces in the preface, as did “ H.
A. Page,” of his “Vers de soci6te,” that the
present issue is a new edition of a book already
published under another name ; and some
reason is given for the change, as, in this case,
that the new title is “more distinctive.”

New titles are often mere rearrangements of
old ones, as in J. Drew Gay’s “From Pall
Mall to the Punjaub ; or, with the Prince in
India,” which, when reprinted, read “The
Prince of Wales in India ; or, from Pall Mall to
the Punjaub.” Here the identity of the two
would at once be detected but for the fact that
the first half of a title is all that is usually
found . in publishers’ announcements and in
catalogues. When the original title is repeated
as a part of the new one it is often so con-
cealed that its detection is difficult. In John
Habberton’s “Just one day,” which became,
with a change of publishers, “ Mrs. Mayburn’s
twins ; with her trials in the morning, after-
noon and evening of just one day ” ; or in Mrs.
Fetherstonhaugh’s story “ Kilcorran,” which,
in the American edition, is enlarged to “ Lil,
fair, fair, with golden hair ; or Kilcorran,” it
is too much to ask of the librarian to know at
sight that they are the same. His time is too
valuable to be wasted on such small game.
Besides he cannot allow himself to look with
suspicion upon the title of every new book, or
sink the office of librarian in that of a detec-
tive. He must take the advertisements of pub-
lishers at their face value, and regard them as
what they claim to be, — the announcements of
“ new books” and not of mere rechaiiffh.

Changes of title are at times so transparent
as to deceive no one, as in the case of Dr.
Nichols’s “From whence, what, where?”
which became in a later edition less mysterious
and redundant.as “Whence, what, where? A
view of the origin, nature, and destiny of
man”; and Aldrich’s “Story of a bad boy,”
which the English publisher’s announcement
softened by adding, “Not a very bad boy.”

In all these cases, innocent or otherwise,
with the exception of the last mentioned, and
in others of a different kind, which might be
added, the publisher and the author are the
only ones to reap pecuniary gain. To the

reader, the bookseller, and the librarian there
is often a Loss of money as well as of temper.
The reader, as Mr. Brentano says, returns his
book as already read under another title to the
bookseller, who, conscious that his customer
looks upon him as stupid or a cheat, adds it to
his stock, already, it may be, superfluous from
his double purchase. The library and its pat-
rons are the greatest sufferers, it being impos-
sible to sell a book without lo.ss after it has
once been labelled and sent out, and it may be-
come necessary to go without some needed book,
which might otherwise have been purchased.

In large public libraries and in circulating
libraries, so called, which buy several copies of
a new book, the loss is sometimes no slight one.
We can all remember when the Jules Verne
fever was at its height, how translation followed
translation in quick succession, each with a title
more appetizing than its predecessor, and how
each story as it appeared was served up in three-
dollar volumes in endless repetitions and com-
binations. It was no pleasure to call to mind
the money spent at that time for duplicates, or
to witness the wrecks which strewed our
shelves after the Vernal equinox had passed.

I ask your attention while I mention some of
the books, for the most part of recent issue,
which, although under two or more titles, are
believed to be wholly or essentially the same.'

These titles, gathered as chance has brought
them, might be indefinitely increased. Enough
has been given to serve to call attention to a
practice which is believed to be disastrous to
good morals and to good letters.

An examination of the several hundred titles
here printed will show how greatly the custom
of giving new titles to old books has increased of
late, and how pressing is the need of a reform.

I I wish to make an acknowledgment to Mr. Frank C.
Blaisdell, of the Boston Public Library, and to others of
my associates, for aid rendered in the preparation of this
list. I am under great obligation to others, especially to
Mr. William F. Poole, of the Chicago Public Library, to
Mr. John Edmands, of the Mercantile Library of Philadel-
phia, to Mr. David Hutcheson, of the Library of Con-
gress, to Messrs. Trubner and co., of London, and to
Mr. Emery Cleaves, of Boston. The work of collecting
and examining these books in this country and abroad
has been a very laborious one, and it has not contributed
to the peace of mind of those who have had to do
with it.

WHITNET.

BOOKS, FOR THE MOST PART OF RECENT ISSUE, WHICH, ALTHOUGH
UNDER TWO OR MORE TITLES, ARE BELIEVED TO BE
WHOLLY OR ESSENTIALLY THE SAME.

Abbotf, I.yman. ^Laicus; or, the experiences of
a layman in a country parish. N. Y., Dodd and
Mead, 1872. — 2d edition, same publishers, 1873,
entitled “A layman’s story; or, the experiences
of John Laicus and his wife in a country parish.’’
About, Edmond Francois Valentin. The round
of wrong. Trans, by Lascelles Wraxall. Lon-
don, Ward and Lock, 1863.

The American translation is entitled “ Germaine,”
Boston, Tilton, i860, which is the title of the original.
Acland, Arthur Herbert Dyke, and Ransome,
Cyril. A hand-book of English politics for the
last half-century. London, Rivingtons, 1883.

The larger part of this work is to be found in ‘‘ A hand-
book in outline of the political history of England to 1881,
chronologically arranged,” by the same authors and pub-
lishers, 1882.

Adams, H: Cadwallader. College days at Ox-
ford. N. Y'., E. P. Dutton and co. [1882.]

Printed from the same plates as ” Wilton of Cuthberts;
a tale of under-graduate life thirty years ago.” London,
.Griffith and Farran, 1878.

Adams, W: PI: Davenport. Stories of the lives
of noble women. London, T. Nelson and sons,
1882.

” Originally issued under the title of ‘The sunshine of
domestic life,’ and passed through several editions.” —
Preface.

Alcott, Louisa May. Little women wedded.
London, S. Low. — Little women. Part second.
Boston, Roberts bros., 1869.

Alcott, W: Alexander.

Two medical books by this author, of which many
editions were published in Boston in 1855 1856, by John

P. Jewett and co., were united by another publisher inf
1868, with a title differing from either. Dr. Alcott, who
died in 1859, nine years before, appears to have returned to
this sphere to sign the preface ” The author, Boston, 1868.”
— The use of tobacco, 1857. — “Tobacco: its effects
on the human system;” with notes and additions
by N. Sizer, 1883. Both, N. Y., P'owler and Wells.
Alden, Isabella Mayo. {Pansy.') Obeying the call.
Glasgow, J. S. Marr and sons, 1878. The same,
with trifling variations, as “The Chautauqua girls
at home.” Boston, D. Lothrop [1877].
Aldrich, T: Bailey. The story of a bad boy.
Boston, Houghton, Osgood and co., 1869. — Tom
Bailey’s adventures; or, the story of a bad boy.
Boston, J. R. Osgood and co., 1877.

All for him. By* * * * ? N.Y., G. W. Carleton
and CO., 1877. — Sweetheart and wife. Same
pubs., 1882. — D. H.

Atlantic tales. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1865.

— Modern classics, Phila., Porter and Coates.
Auerbach, Berthold. Barftissele.

Has been translated in various editions, as ” The bare-
footed maiden,” and ” The little barefoot.”

Auerbach, Berthold. Villa Eden : the country
house on the Rhine. Boston, Roberts brothers,
1869.

Another translation is entitled ” Villa on the Rhine.”
N. Y., Leypoldt and Holt, copyright, 1869. The original
is entitled ” Das Landhaus am Rhein.”

Ayres, J. H. Every man his own doctor, 1879.
— Carleton’s household physician, 1882. Both,
N. Y., G. W. Carleton and co. — //.

Azeglio, Massimo. [Giuseppe Maria Girolamo
Raffaele Massimo Taparelli, uiarchese d’ Azeglio.]
Plorence betrayed; or, the last days of the re-
public. Boston, W. V. Spencer, 1856. — Niccolo
dei Lapi; or the last days of the Florentine re-
public. Phila., J. B. Lippincott and co., i860.
The original is “ Niccolo de’ Lapi.” — J. E.
Balfour, J: Hutton. Systematic and economic
botany. N. Y., G. P. Putnam’s sons, 1874. — Vege-
table anatomy and physiology. — American cata-
logue.

Barber, J: W. The picture preacher. New Haven,
Ct., H. Howe, 1880. — Royal road to happiness;
or, the picture preacher. Phila., Hubbard bros.,
1882. — D. //., in Library journal, Aug., 1883.
Baking-Gould, Sabine. Gabrielle Andre. An
historical novel. N. Y., D. Appleton and co.,
1871. The same as “ In exitu Israel.” Lon-
don, Macmillan, 1870.

Belot, Adolphe. The black Venus. A tale of the
dark continent. Trans, and adapted from the
PTench by George D. Cox. Phila., T. B. Peterson
&bros. —

Is a condensed and adapted translation of a connected
series of three works : “ La sultane parisienne,” “ La
fievre de I’inconnu,” ” La Venus noire”; and these are
published in this country as : i. “ The Parisian sultana.”
From the French. N. Y., G. Munro, 1881. (Seaside Li-
brary, No. 1021.) 2. “ The thirst for the unknown.” (Sequel
to ‘‘The Parisian sultana.”) From the French. N. Y.,
G. Munro, 18S1. (Seaside Librarv, No. 1036.) 3. ‘‘The

black Venus.” (Sequel to “Thirst for the unknown.”;
From the French. N. Y., G. Munro, 1881. (Seaside
library. No. 1078.) — D. H.

— Fedora : or, the tragedy in the Rue de la Paix.
Trans, from the French by A. 1). H. Chicago,
Rand, McNally & co., 1883. — Men are what
women make them; or, the drama of Rue de la
Paix. From the French. By Julia Morton Fur-
bish. Phila., H. N. McKinney and co. [1872.]
The original title is “ Le drame de la Rue de la
Paix.”— oO. H.

Benedict, PYank l.ee. Her friend Laurence.
N. Y., G. W. Carleton and co., 1879. — Do I
love her? [Author’s name removed.] Same pubs.,
1882. — D. H., in Library jotirnal, June, 1883.

— Madame. 1877. — A woman’s requital. [No
author mentioned in the second.] 1883. Both,
N. Y., G. W. Carleton and co. — D H.

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Bennett, Emerson. The forged will; oi-, crime
and retribution. Phila., T. B. Peterson and
bros., copyright, 1853. — The orphan’s trials; or,
alone in a great city. Same pubs., copyright,
1874. The same. — J. E.

Boys and girls’ miscellany. Boston, Houghton
Osgood and co., 1880. — Our young folks. 1871.
Trowbridge’s “Jack Hazard and his fortunes”
is published in this volume.

Brabazon, Elizabeth J. Tales from Spanish his-
tory. 1853. — Historical tales from the history of
the Muslims in Spain, no date. Both, London,
Jarrold and son.

Bracketf, Anna Callender, and Eliot, Ida M.,
compilers. Poetry for home and school. N. Y.,
G. P. Putnam’s sons, 1876.

A second edition, same publisher, 1S77, adding portraits
and illustrations, and Avithout other changes, is entitled
“ The silver treasury of poetry for home and school.”

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. Bound to John Com-
pany; or, the adventures and misadventures of
Robert Ainsleigh. N. Y., Harper and bros., 1869.
The same, with variations, as “ Robert Ainsleigh.”
London, Maxwell; Berlin, A. Asher and co.,
1872.

— Lucius Davoren ; or publicans and sinners.
London, Maxwell, 1873; Leipzig, Tauchnitz.
— Publicans and sinners; or, Lucius Davoren.
N. Y., Harper and bros., 1874. — J. E.

— Milly Darrell and other tales. [Anon.] Lon-
don, Maxwell, 1873; N. Y., G. W. Carleton and
CO. — Meeting her fate, by the author of “ Aurora
Floyd.” [Anon.^ N. Y., G. W. Carleton and co.,
1881. — Z>. //.

— Run to earth. London, Ward and Lock, 1868;
Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1869. — Davipla ; or, no-
body’s daughter. N. Y., Dick and Fitzgerald, no
date. (With changes in the text.) — y. E.

Bradley, Rev. Edward. The adventures of Ver-
dant Green, an Oxford freshman. By Cuthbert
Bede \^pseud.\ — The Dude, or the adventures of
Verdant Green. N. Y., G. W. Carleton and co.,
1883.-29. H.

One would as soon look to see a new title to ” Robin-
son Crusoe” or “The Vicar of Wakefield,” as to this
classic in its way, so well known to many generations of
students Besides, it is hardly fair to Verdant Green to
call him a Dude.

Bray, Anna Eliza. The borders of the Tamar and
the Tavy. - In a series of letters to the late Rob-
ert Southey. New ed. London, W’^. Kent and
CO., 1879.

First published by Murray, in 1836, with the title, “ A
description of the part of Devonshire bordering on the
Tamar and the Tavy.” The new edition contains altera-
tions.

Bremer, Fredrika. Hertha. London, 1856; N. Y.,
G. P. Putnam and co., 1856. — The four sisters, a
tale of social and domestic life in Sweden.
Phila., T. B. Peterson and co., no date. Both
translated by Mary Howitt, and the same. — J. E.

Bridgman, T: Epitaphs from Copp’s hill burial
ground, Boston. With notes. Boston, J. Mun-
roe, 1851. The same, with slight variations, as
“Memorials of the dead in Boston: containing
inscriptions, epitaphs, and records on the monu-
ments and tombstones in Copp’s Hill burying
ground.” Boston, Munroe and Francis, 1852.
Buerstenbinder, E .. {^E. Werner.) Am Altar.
Leipzig, Keil, 1873. Translated as “At the
altar.” Phila., J. B. Lippincott and co , 1872, and
“ Bound by his vows; or, at -the altar.” Same
pubs. [1874.] — D. //.

— “Gliick auf.” Translated, Boston, Osgood,
1874, as “ Good luck.” The London translation
is entitled “ Success, and how he won it.” Lon-
don, R. Bentley and son, 1877.

— Riven bonds, a novel ; trans. by B. Ness.
London, Remington, 1877. — Broken chains.
Transl. by'F. A. Shaw. Boston, J. R. Osgood and
CO., 187!;; Boston, Estes and Lauriat, no date.

-y. a:

— Um hohen Preis. Leipzig, Keil, 1879.
Translated, ‘‘At a high price.” Boston, Estes and

Lauriat, 1879, and ” No surrender.” (Seaside library, No.
1525.) N.Y., G. Munro [1S83]. — 2>. H.

— Vineta. Leipzig, Keil, 1877.

Translated, “Vineta, the phantom city. From the
German of E. Werner, by Francis A. Shaw.” Boston,
Estes and Lauriat, 1S77. — “ Under a charm ; a novel from
the German of E. Werner, by Christina Tyrrell.” Lon-
don, R. Bentley and son, 1S78.

Burdett, C: The beautiful spy. Story of army and
high life in New York in 1776. Phila., J. E.
Potter, copyright, 1865.

First published by the same with the title “ Margaret
Moncrieffe; the first love of Aaron Burr.”

Burnetj', Frances Hodgson. Vagabondia. A love
story. Boston, J. R. Osgood and co., 1883.
Originally published in a ladies’ magazine under
the name of “ Dorothea,” afterwards in book
form as “Dolly.” (Phila., Porter and Coates,
[1877].) — Author's note.

Carlen, Emilia Flygare Schmidt. One year; a
tale of wedlock. N. Y., Scribner. — Lavinia; or,
one year. A tale of wedlock. From the origi-
nal Swedish by Alex. L. Krause and Elbert
Perce. N.Y., J. Miller, 1873.

Carleton’s (G. W.) hand-book of popular quota-
tions. — Many thoughts of many minds. (Carle-
ton. ) — Carleton’s new hand-book of popular
quotations. N. Y., 1877; 1882; 1883. — D. II.
Carleton’s (G. W.) household encyclopaedia and
hand-book of general information. N.Y., 1879.
— Carleton’s hand-book of general information.
1882. — /?. H.

Carlyle, T: On the choice of books. London,
1866..

This rather misleading title was given to an edition,
prefaced with other matter, of Carlyle’s Address on being
installed as Rector of the University of Edinburgh, which
had been published by authority (Edinburgh, Edmonston
and Douglas, 1866), under its proper title. Carlyle, in a
letter to Mr. Emerson, 4 June, 1871 (Correspondence, ii.

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340) , calls the publisher “ A dirty little pirate, who snatches
at everybody grown fat enough to yield him a bite (paltry,
unhanged creature).”

Carpentkr, Frank B. The inner life of Abraham
Lincoln. Six months at the White House. Bos-
ton, Houghton, AFifllin and co., 1883. — Six months
at the White House with Abraham Lincoln.
N Y., Hurd and Houghton, 1866.

Cham PUN, J: Denison, y>. The child’s catechism
of common things. N. Y., Holt, 1879.

Was republished by the same firm in 1S82, as “ Young
folks’ catechism of common things,” with some changes
in the wording.

— The young folks’ cyclopeedia of common
things. By John D. Champlin, jr. With illus-
trations. N.Y., Holt, 1880. Appeared, Lon-
don, Kegan, Paul, Trench and co., 1882, as “ The
little cyclopaedia of common things. Edited by
the Rev. Sir George W. Cox, bart, M.A. With
illustrations.”

With the exception of some additions and omissions,
this is the same as the preceding. An American edition
is alluded to in the preface, but there is no mention of the
author. The book was, at first, a welcome one in Ameri-
ca, where the editor was favorably known from his con-
nection with the “ Dictionary of science, literature, and
art, by Brande and Cox.” Afterwards, the method of its
publication was severely criticised.

COCKTON, H: The fatal marriages. Phila., Peter-
son. Is said to have been published under the
title “The sisters; or, the fatal marriages.”

Coffin, C: Carleton. Four years of fighting, from
the battle of Bull Run to the fall of Richmond.
Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1866. This was
reprinted from the sam.e plates, Boston, Estes and
Lauriat, 1882, as “The boys of ’61; or, four years
of fighting” [etc.].

Cooke, J: Esten. Henry St. John, gentleman, of
Flower of Hundreds in the county of Prince,
George, Virginia. A tale of 1774-75. N. Y.,
Harper and bros., 1859. — Bonnybel Vane; em-
bracing the history of Henry St. John, gentle-
man. Same publishers, 1883. With a new
preface.

If this author’s other stories are to be republished it is
hoped that the publishers will not rob them of their
familiar titles.

Cooper, James Fenimore.

The titles of some of Cooper’s novels have sulfercd
a sea change in crossing the Atlantic. For example,
in the English editions, “Miles Wallingford” becomes
“Lucy Hardinge”; “The Wept of Wishton-Wish ”
becomes “The borderers; or, the Wept of Wish-ton-
Wish”; “The wing-and-wing, or, Le feu-follet” be-
comes “ The Jack-o’Lantern ” ; while the French transla-
tions of many of his novels bear titles curiously unlike
the originals.

Cruel secret, A. N. Y., G. W. Carleton and co.,
1883. The same as “ All for her; or, St. Jude’s
assistant.” A novel, gy * * =f= p” Same

publishers, 1877.

The half-title and running-title read “ St. Jude’s assist-

ant,” under which name it has been advertised by the
same firm, and possibly may have been published.

Since the above was written Mr. John P'. Butler, of
New York, in a letter to the Literary worlds published
Oct. 20, 18S3, stales that the author, a well-known lawyer
in New York city, copyrighted this book in 1876, under
the title “ St. Jude’s assistant.” While being stereotyped
the publishers failed. Another publisher bought the
plates of the assignee, took out a new copyright, and
issued the story anonymously, under the title “ All for
her,” and sold over 50,000 copies. He states that it was
also published in 18S2 with the title “ Little St, Jude’s,”
and also, as already stated, in 1883, under the title “ A
cruel secret.”

CUPPLES, Ann Jane. (Mrs. George Cupples.) Tappy’s
chicks, and other links between nature and hu-
man nature. London, Strahan and co., 1872. —
Republished, Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1872, with
the title “ Singular creatures, and how they were
found; being stories and studies from the do-
mestic zoology of a Scotch parish,”

Dalton, W: John Chinaman; or, adventures in
Flowery land. Boston, copyrighted, James Mun-
roe and co., 1858; later, Crosby and Nichols. —
The wolf boy of China. N. Y,, World pub. house,
1877.

Darrington-Deslonde, Maria, John Maribel.
N. Y., G. W, Carleton and co., 1877. — My
heart’s content. [Author’s name removed.]
Same pubs., 1882. — D. //., in Library journal,
June, 1883.

— The miller of Silcott mill. N. Y., G. W. Carle-
ton and CO., 1877. Republished by the same
firm in 1883, with the title “ For love and honor.”
The author’s name is given in the earlier, but not in the

later, issue.

Daudet, Alphonse. Jack. From the French, by
Mary Neal Sherwood. 1st American edition.
Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1877. (Cobweb
series.)

The London translation, by L. Ford (S. Low, 1877),
entitled “ My brother Jack; or, the story of What-d’ye-
call-’em,” is not, as has been supposed, another transla-
tion of the French book “Jack,” but of Daudet’s “ Le
petit chose, histoire d’un enfant.”

Davidson, Harriet Miller, Christian Osborne’s
friends. Edinb., W. P. Nimmo, 1870. — Right
at last; or, Christian Osborne’s friends.” Boston,
H. A. Young and co., 1873.

Davy’s school days; or, deeds speak louder than
words. Boston Congregational pub. soc., no
date, — Davy’s motto; or, deeds speak louder
than words. Boston, A. F, Graves, no date.

Day, Lai Behari. Bengal peasant life. New
edition. London, Macmillan, 1880.

The first edition, same publishers, 1878, was entitled
Govinda Samanta ; or, the history of a Bengal raiyat.”

— FSthlishers’ notice.

Deforest, J: William. The bloody chasm: a
novel. 1881. — The oddest of courtships; or,
the bloody chasm. 1882. Both, N. Y., D. Apple
ton and co. — W. F. P.

BUFFALO CONFERENCE.

De Leon, Edwin. The Khedive’s Egypt. Lon-
don, S. Low, 1877. — “ Egypt under its Khedives;
or, the old house of bondage under new mas-
ters.” N. Y., Harper, 1882.

The latter has a new preliminary chapter.

Dodge, R: Irving. The plains of the great West
and their inhabitants. N. Y., Putnam, 1877. —
The hunting-grounds of the great West. Lon-
don, Chatto and Windus, 1877.

Donelan, a. M. The value of Fostertown. Lon-
don, Chapman and Hall, 1870. Previously pub-
lished with the title “Sowing and reaping.” —
Publishers' notice. J. E.

Douglas, Amanda Minnie. There’s no place like
home. Boston, W. F. Gill and co., 1874, and De
Wolfe, Fiske and co., 1882. This becomes,
Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1883, “ The old woman
who lived in a shoe; or, there’s no place like
home,” printed from the same plates.

Drew, B: Pens and types; or, hints and helps
for those who write, print or read. Boston, Lee
and Shepard, 1872. — Hints and helps for those
who write, print or read, same publishers, 1882.

Droz, Gustave. Bertha’s baby. Phila., T. B.
Peterson and bros. [1881.] — Monsieur, Madame
and the baby. A series of confessions. Trans,
by Reavel Savage. Same publishers. [1881.]

The first comprises part third of the other, beginning
at p. 210. — D. H.

Du Boisgobey, Fortune. The lost casket. Trans,
from “ La main coupee,” by S. Lee. N. Y., G.
P. Putnam’s sons, 1881. Published with the
correct title, “ The severed hand,” Seaside li-
brary, 1881. — J- E.

Dumas, Alexandre Davy. Captain Paul. Lon-
don, C. H. Clarke, 1858; Routledge, no date. —
Paul Jones, the son of the sea. N, Y., Garrett
and CO., 1853.

The original is “ Le capitaine Paul.”

— The chevalier d’Harmental; or, love and con-
spiracy. Trans, from the French by P. F.
Christin and E. Lies N. Y., Harper, 1863.

This title agrees with the original. In the English

edition (Routledge) it is found “The conspirators; or,
the chevalier d’Harmental.”

— The half brothers; or, the head and the hand.
Trans, by L. Lawford. London, Routledge,

1859. — The iron hand; or, the knight of Mau-
leon. Phila., T. B. Peterson and bros., copy-
right, 1875.

The original is “ Le batard de MauRon.” — D. H.

— Joseph Balsamo. Phila., Peterson, 1878. The
same as “ Memoirs of a physician,” same pub-
lishers.

The original is “ M^moires d’un medecin. Joseph Bal-
samo.”

— Pauline; or, buried alive. London, Hodgson,

1860. — Buried alive. Phila., T. B. Peterson
and bros,, no date.

The French original is entitled “ Pauline.”

— Taking the Bastile; or, six years later. Lon-
don, C. PL Clarke, i860; Routledge, no date. —
Six years later; or, the taking of the Bastile.
Phila., T. B. Peterson and bros., no date. — J. E.
The original is “ L’ange Pitou.”

— The three guardsmen. Phila., Peterson. —
“The three musketeers.” London, Routledge.
Translations, it is said, of “ Les trois mousquetaires.”
Besides the stories here mentioned the following,

written by Dumas, or that pass under his name, have
English titles unlike the original : Acte (translated Act6
of Corinth) ; — Le capitaine Richard (The twin lieuten-
ants); — Catherine Blum (Catherine Blume; — The for-
esters) ; — La comtesse de Charny (The countess de
Charny ; — last part, Andree de Taverney) ; — Conscience
I’innocent (The conscript); — La dame de Monsoreau
(Diana of Meridor; or, the lady of Monsoreau; — Chicot
the jester) ; — Gabriel Lambert (The galley slave) ; —
Gaule et France (The progress of democracy) ; — La
guerre des femmes (Nanon) ; — L’ile de feu (Doctor
Basilius) ; — Impressions de voyage: L’Arabie heureuse
(Impressions of travel in Egypt and Arabia Petraea) ; —
Impressions de voyage: Midi de la France (Pictures of
travel in the South of France) ; — Impressions de voyage :
Le veloce. (Tales of Algeria); — La maison de glace
(The Russian gipsy) ; — Les Mohicans de Paris (The
Mohicans of Paris; — last part, The horrors of Paris;

— Continuation and conclusion of The Mohicans,
Salvator) ; — Le page du due de Savoie (Emmanuel-
Philibert; — The page of the Duke of Savoy); — Les
quarante-cinq (The forty-five guardsmen) ; — La reine
Margot (Marguerite de Valois; — Margaret of Navarre) ;

— Sylvandire (The young chevalier; — The marriage
verdict; — Beau Tancred) ; — Le vicomte de Bragelonne.
(First part onlj' becomes Bragelonne; — the second part.
The iron mask; — the third part, Louise La Valliere.) —
D. H.

Among the stories published in English, under the
name of Dumas, to which it is difficult to find anything
in French corresponding, is “ Edmond Dantes. A sequel
to the Count of Monte-Cristo, By Alexandre Dumas.”
With Peterson’s imprint, but copyrighted by George W .
Noble, in 187S. Perhaps the period should be re-
moved after Monte-Cristo, and the reading should
be “ A sequel to the Count of Monte-Cristo by Alex-
andre Dumas.” Found with the punctuation given on
the title-page it is put in catalogues, of course, under
the name of Dumas. On the reverse of the title-page,
Edmond Dantes is mentioned as one of “ Alexander
Dumas’ great works.” What is the French original of
“Love and liberty: a thrilling narrative of the French
revolution. By Alexandre Dumas.” Phila., Peterson
[1869]?

Dupuy, Eliza A. “How he did it.” — “Was he
guilty?” Both, T. B. Peterson and bros., copy-
right, 1871 and 1873.

Ebers, G: Moritz. The daughter of an Egyptian
king. Trans, by Henry Reed. Phila., Lippin-
cott, 1881. — An Egyptian princess. Trans, by
Eleanor Grove. Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1870.
Different translations of “ Eine aegyptische Kbnigs-
tochter.”

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179

Edwardes, Annie. A ballroom repentance. Lon-
don, Bentley, 1882; Leipzig, Taiichnitz, 1882. —
At the eleventh hour. N. Y., Putnam, 1882. — Li-
brary journal.

Where, as often happens, the titles of a book differ in
the American and tire Tauchnitz editions, many libraries
in this country are likely to purchase both editions, which
they might not care to do if aware that they differed only
in their titles.

— Estelle. N. Y:, Sheldon and co. Published in
England under the title “ Creeds.”

“ The title of the American edition was changed at the
suggestion of the author.” — Preface.

— The ordeal for wives. N. Y., Sheldon and co.
[1873.] — Delicate ground. N. Y., G. W. Carle-
ton and CO., 1883.

“ The first three pages of the old. issue have been com-
pressed into one in the new issue, but from the second
line of the second page of the new issue, the books are
printed from the same plates.” — The Nation, March 15,
1883, p. 233.

Elliot, S: H. Dreams and realities in the life of
a pastor and teacher. By the author of “ Rolling
Ridge,” “The parish side.” N. Y., J. C. Derby,
copyright, 1855. — Lights and shadows of a pas-
tor’s life. N. Y., Derby and Jackson. The
same ( ?) . — y. E,

Emerson, W: A. Handbook of wood engraving.
Ulus. Newed. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1881.

A new edition of “ Practical instruction in the art of
wood engraving.” East Douglas, C. J. Batcheller, 1876.
Enault, Louis. The pupil of the Legion of honor.
Trans, by Mrs. Charles P. Tritt. Phila., Porter
and Coates, 1871. — The woman of honor; or,
false friendships in society. A book for women.
Phila., T. B. Peterson and bros., 1875.
Enchanted keys, and other Oriental tales; with
introd. by Miss Pardoe. Baltimore, Kelly, Piet, &
CO.; N. Y., Allen brothers, 1869.

Formerly published under the titles of “ One thousand
and one days,” and of “ Hassan Abdallah; or, the en-
chanted keys, and other tales; with introd.” [etc.]. Bal-
timore, Kelly and Piet.” — American Catalogue.
Erckmann, Emile, and Chatrian, Alexandre. The
story of the plebiscite. London, Smith, Elder and
CO., 1872. — A miller’s story of the war; or, the
plebiscite. N. Y., Scribner, Armstrong and co.,
1872. — The plebiscite. N. Y., Scribner and
CO., no date.

The original is “ Histoire du plebiscite.”

Essays and reviews. London, Longman. 1861.

The title of the American edition is “ Recent inquiries
in theology, by eminent English churchmen,” the English
title being regarded by Dr. Hedge, the American editor,
as “ very insignificant.” — J. E.

Farjeon, B: L. Solomon Isaacs. N. Y., G. W.
Carleton and co , 1877.

After the successful career of Crawford’s “ Mr. Isaacs,”
“ Solomon Isaacs ” was republished by the same, in 1S83,
as “Mrs. Isaacs.” These two stories are of a totally
different character.

P’arman, Ellen. The cooking club of Tu-Whit
Hollow. (/;z Wide Awake, 1875.) — Same title
in book-form, Boston, D. Lothrop and co., 1876.

— The cooking club. Same publishers, 1883 (?).

— Good-for-nothing Polly, (/w Wide Awake, 1877.)
Same title in book-form, Boston, D. Lothrop and
co.; Glasgow, J. S. Marr and sons, 1877. — Polly.
Boston, D. Lothrop andco., 1883 (?).

Fawcett, Millicent Garrett. Janet Doncaster. Lon-
don, Smith, Elder and co. — Janet. N.Y., Carle-
ton, 1878. — PYiend or lover. Same pub., 1881.

— D. H. in Library journal, June, 1883.

Fetherstonhaugh, Hon. Mrs. Kilcorran. Lon-
don, Bentley and S., 1877. — “ Lil, fair, fair, with
golden hair; or, Kilcorran.” Phila., Lippincott,
1878.

Feuillet, Octave. The count de Camors. The
man of the second empire. Phila., T. B. Peter-
son and bros. [1879.] — Camors; or, life under
the new empire. N. Y., Blelock and co., 1868.
(French title, Monsieur de Camors.) — D. H.

— The diary of a woman. N. Y., D. Appleton and
co., 1879. — A woman’s journal. N. Y., G.
Munro, 1878. (Seaside library. No. 428.) —
D. LL

— The history of a Parisienne. (Histoire d’une
Parisienne.) From the French by Charles
Ripley. Phila., T. B. Peterson and bros. [1881.]

— Jeanne; or. the history of a Parisienne. Trans,
by Jacob Abarbanell. N. Y., G. Munro, 1881.
(Seaside library, No. 1,040.) — A Parisian ro-
mance. (Un roman parisien.) Phila., T. B.
Peterson and bros. [1883.] — D. H.

— Led astray; or, “La petite comtesse.” The
sphinx; or, “ Julia de Trecoeur.” “ Bellah.”
Translated from the latest Paris editions, by O.
Vibeur. N. Y. , G. W. Carleton & co., 1875.

Published by the same in i88i, omitting the author's
name, and with the title “Led astray.” The first part of
this story (Led astray) has been published by the same
firm, in 1880, as “ The little countess. Trans, by Mary
Neal Sherwood.” — I). H.

Feval, Paul Henry Corentin. La fille du juif-er-
rant. \^Also, Le carnaval des enfants.] Paris,
V. Palme, 1879.

The first story is the same as “ Le vicornte Paul,” Paris,
Levy, 1872; the last is the same, with changes, as “La
reine Margot et le mousquetaire.”

— Frere Tranquille. Paris, V. Palme, 1878.

First published under the above title, which was after-
terwards changed to “ La duchesse de Nemours,” which
in turn in later editions gave place to the original title.
Feydeau, Ernest Aime. Ballet dancer’s husband.
Translated from the French. Chicago, H. A.
Sumner and co., 1 880. — Barberine ; or, a woman’s
devotion. Same year, same publishers. The
original is “ Le mari de la danseuse.”

Fitzsimon, E. a. The joint venture. N. Y., J.
Sheehy, 1878. — Gerald Barry; or, the joint
venture. Same pubs., 1881. — ^9. zY, in Library
journal, Aug., 1883.

BUFFALO CONFERENCE,

I So

Flagg, Wilson. The birds and seasons of New
England. With illus. — The woods and by-ways
of New England, With illus. Both, Boston,
J. R. O.sgood and co., 1875 ^872.

These two were made, Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1S81,
with but very little added, into three volumes, with the titles
“Halcyon days,” “ A year among the trees,” “ A year
with the birds.” — Preface.

Fletcher, Julia. Kismet. No name series. Bos-
ton, Roberts bros., 1876. — A Nile novel, by
George Fleming pseud. \ London, Macmil-

lan, 1883.

Forsyth, W: Ilortensius: an historical essay on
the office and duties of an advocate. London, J.
Murray, 1849; 2d ed., 1874. Reprinted, N. Y.,
J. Cockcroft and co., 1875, as “The history of
lawyers, ancient and modern.”

Fowler, W: Worthington. Twenty years of in-
side life in Wall street. N. Y., O. Judd co.,
1880.

With the exception of a few alterations and the addi-
tion of fifty pages at the end, identical with the author’s
“Ten years in Wall street.” Hartford, Worthington,
Dustin and co., 1870.

Fox, Wilson. The diseases of the stomach. Being
the third edition of the “ Diagnosis and treatment
of the varieties of dyspepsia.” London, Mac-
millan and CO., 1872.

Fullerton, Lady Georgiana Charlotte (Leveson
Gower). Rosemary; a tale of the tire of London.
N. Y., P. O’Shea, 1874. — The tire of London;
or, Rosemary. Baltimore, Kelly, Piet and co.,

1875-

Gaboriau, Emile. The clique of gold. Boston,
Estes & Lauriat, 1874. — The gilded clique. N. Y.,
J. W. Lovell company, 1883. — C. Estabrook.

— Marriage at a venture. Trans, by Vincenzo
Calfa. N. Y., G. Munro, 1879. (Seaside li-
brary, No. 490.) — A chance marriage. From
the French, by Vincenzo Calfa. N. Y., for the
translator, 1878. — J). II.

Gage, W: Leonard. The land of sacred mystery.
Hartford, Worthington, Dustin, and co., 1871. —
The home of God’s people. Hartford, Dustin,
Gilman and co., 1874. — IV. F. P.

Gay, j. Drew. From Pall Mall to the Punjaub;
or, with the Prince in India. London, Chatto and
Windus, 1876. — The Prince of Wales in India;
cr, from Pall Mall to the Punjaub. N. Y., R.
Worthington, 1877.

Ghost stories, collected to counteract the vulgar
belief in them, wiih notes by Milman. Phila.,
Carey and Hart, 1846.

From these plates two editions have been published by
Janies Miller, of New York, one entitled “ Curious stories
collected” [etc.], and another “ Ghost stories, collected”
[etc.].

Good stories. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1867.
— Famous stories, by De Quincey, Hawthorne,
Thackeray, . . . and others. N. Y., R. Worthing-
ton, 1880.

Grant, James. The romance of war. London, Col-
butn, 1848. — The guerrilla chief; or, a romance
of war. N. Y., H. Long and bro. [about 1855].
—D. II.

Grant, Maria M. Bright morning. London, Warne,
1875; N. Y. (Seaside library.) — Once and for-
ever. N. Y., G. W. Carleton & co., 1878. — So
dear a dream. N. Y., G. W. Carleton and co.,
1883.— Z). II.

— Victor Lescar. London, Warne, 1875; Leipzig,
Tauchnitz, 1875. — Sorry her lot who loves too
well. N. Y., G. W. Carleton and co., 1879. —

D. If.

Grosvenor, Mrs. H. S. May Horton; or, life at
Aunt Upton’s. Boston, H. Hoyt [1874]. — Ellen
Dacre; or, life at Aunt Hester’s; same publisher.

— Simon Martin ; or, the first glass. Boston, H.
Hoyt [i860]. — Amy Martin; same publisher.

Guide to accomplishments in conversation, letter-
writing, and oratory. Edited by Mrs. Jane Aster.
N. Y., G. W. Carleton and co., 1879. Made up of
two books, viz. : Edward W. Cox. “ The arts of
writing, reading, and speaking,” 1864, and “The
art of conversation ” [Auou.], 1871 ; both by the
same publisher as the edition of 1879 above. —

E. H.

Habberton, J: Just one day. N. Y., G. R. Lock-
wood, 1879. Becomes, Phila. [1882], “Mrs.
Mayburn’s twins; with her trials in the morning,
afternoon, and evening of just one day.”

This might be examined more closely, as an example
of the new methods of book-making under consideration.
The new edition seems to be printed from the old plates,
the only alteration apparent in the text being in the last
two lines, which, to correspond with the altered title, read,
instead of “ And thus it was that the thread of mamma’s ex-
istence . . . was woven through one day,”’ stands

“ . . . was woven through the morning, noon, afternoon,
and evening of one day.” The paging in the new book be-
gins with number 23, adding correspondingly to the
figures of the last page. Unfortunately, the paging of
the table of contents was not altered to correspond, and it
is all wrong.

Habits, The, of gcod society, 1872. — The ladies’
and gentlemen’s etiquette book of the best
society. Edited by Mrs. Jane Aster, 1879. —
Sensible etiquette and good manners of the best
society. Edited by Mrs. Jane Aster, 1882. All,
N. Y., G. W. Carleton and co., and the same
with some changes.

The last adds 35 pages on the art of writing. — D. H.
Hale, E: Everett. The good time coming; or, our
new crusade. Boston, Roberts, 1875. Pub-
lished the same year, by the same, as “ Our new
crusade. K temperance story.”

Hall, B: F. The early history of the North-western
states, embracing New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illi-
nois, Michigan, Iowa, and Wisconsin, with their
land laws, etc. Buffalo, G. H. Derby, 1879.

“This is the Land-owner’s manual, Auburn, Derby
and Co., 1847, with a new title-page.” — Sabin.

WHITNET.

Harris, Sir Wiliam Cornwallis. The highlands of
Ethiopia. N. Y., J. Winchester, no date. — Ad-
ventures in Africa during a tour of two years
through that country. Phila., Peterson, no date.
Hauff, Wilhelm. Der kleine Muck. Trans, as
“ Longnose the dwarf, and other fairy tales.” Lon-
don, Sonnenschein and Allen [i88i], and “ Little
Mook, and other fairy tales.” N.Y., Putnam, i88i.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel.

“ The marble faun; or, the romance of Monte Beni,” as
we all know, was published in London and Leipzig under
the title of ” Transformation ; or, the romance of Monte
Beni.” Several names had been proposed, Mr. George P.
Lathrop says,i among them “The transformation of the
faun,” which the English publisher shortened to “Trans-
formation.” Hawthorne complained of the title Trans-
formation as giving the idea of “Harlequin in a panto-
mime.” On the other hand, Henry James, in his “ Haw-
thorne ” objects to the title “ Marble faun ” as failing “ to
characterize the story, the subject of which is the living
faun, the faun of flesh and blood, the unfortunate Dona-
tello. His mai'ble counterpart is mentioned only in the
opening chapter.”

Head, Sir Francis Bond. Bubbles from the brun-
nens of Nassau, by an old man. London, J. Mur-
ray, 1833; N. Y., G. Dearborn, 1836, — Bubbles
- from some brunnens of Germany, by an old
Englishman, N. Y., G. G. Lange, 1848.

Headley, Phineas Camp.

The following were publislied by W. H. Appleton,
N.Y., iSdqand 1865: i. The hero boy; or, the life and
deeds of Lieut.-Gen. Grant. — 2. Life and naval career of
Vice-Admiral David Glascoe Farragut. — 3. Life and
military career of Major-General Philip Henry Sheridan.

— 4. Life and military career of Major-General William
Tecumseh Sherman. — 5. The patriot boy; or, the life and
career of Major-General Ormsby M. Mitchel. They
have been republished by Lee and Shepard, Boston, 1883,
as the “ Heroes of the rebellion,” with the titles : i. Fight
it out on this line; the life and deeds of Gen. U. S. Grant,

— 2. Old Salamander; the life and naval career of Admi-
ral David Glascoe Farragut. — 3. Fighting Phil; the
life and military career of Lieut.-Gen. Philip H. Sheri-
dan.— 4. Facing the enemy ; the life and military career
of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman. — 5. Old Stars; the
life and military career of Major-Gen. O. M. Mitchel.
Hentz, Caroline Lee. The victim of excitement;

The bosom serpent, etc. Phila., A. Hart. 1853.
— Love after marriage, and other stories of the
heart. Phila., T. B. Peterson, copyright, 1857.
The same. The last story in the earlier book is
made the first in the later. — J. E.

Hildreth, R. The white slave; or, memoirs of a
fugitive. [A/ion.] Boston, Tappan and Whitte-
more, 1852.

Through the first thirty-six chapters the same as “ Me-
moirs of Archy Moore.” 2ded., Boston, J. Munroe and co.,
1839. M*"* Edmands states that this story was also pub-
lished with the titles : “ The slave; or, memoirs of Archy
Moore,” Boston, Whipple and Damrell, 1840, and “ Archy
Moore the white slave,” Auburn, N. Y., Miller, Orton and
Mulligan, 1855.

1 Notes to the Riverside edition of Hawthorne, vol. 6, p. 11.

HiLLERN,Wilhelmine von. Ernestine. London, T.De
La Rue and co. ; N. Y., W. S. Gottslierger, i88i.
(Translated by S. Baring-Gould.) — Only a girl;
or, a physician for the soul, translated by Mrs. A.
L. Wister. Phila., Lippincott, 1870.

These are different translations of “ Ein Arzt der Seele.”
— The vulture maiden. From the German, by C.
Bell and E. F. Poynter. Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1876;
N.Y., G. Munro, 1879. (Seaside Library, no. 575.)
— Elsa, and her vulture; a tale of the Tyrolean
Alps, translated by Lady Wallace. London, Long-
mans, Green and co., 1876. — Geier- Wally. A tale
of the Tyrol. N. Y., Appleton, 1876.

Different translations of “ Die Geier-Wally.”
Holloway, Laura Carter. The ladies of the White
House. N. Y., U. S. pub. co., 1872. — In the
home of the presidents. N. Y., U. S. pub. co.,
1875. The same, with additions.

Howe, Fisher. Turkey, Greece and Palestine in

1853. Glasgow, W. Collins [1854]. — Oriental
and sacred scenes, from notes of travel in Greece,
Turkey, and Palestine. N. Y., M. W. Dodd,

1854. — Z). //.

Hughes, T: Tom Brown’s school days. London,
Macmillan; Leipzig, Tauchnitz; Phila., H. B.
Ashmead. — School days at Rugby. Boston,
Ticknor and Fields.

Hugo, Victor Marie, comte. By order of the king.
Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1870. — The man who laughs.
N. Y., Appleton, 1873. Different translations of
“ L’homme qui rit.”

Hunt, Mrs. Alfred W. “ Self-condemned.” London,
Chatto and Windus, 1883.

The statement has been made that this story has been
republished at Boston, without the author’s name, as one of
the “ No name series,” with the title “ Barrington’s fate.”
The two books open in the same words. I have not seen
a copy of the London edition, to see what changes, if any,
have been made in the American edition.

Ingraham, Joseph Holt. The Sunny South; or,
the Southerner at home. Phila., G. G. Evans,
i860. Becomes, after the publication of Tour-
gee’s book, “Not ‘ A fool’s errand;’ life and ex-
perience of a Northern governess in the sunny
South.” N. Y., Carleton, 1883.

James, George Payne Rainsford. Revenge. London,
Newby, 1851. — The man in black. An historical
novel of the days of Queen Anne. Phila., T. B.
Peterson and bros., copyright, i860. — J.E.

Japp, Alexander Hay. (//. A. Page^ Vers de
societd and parody. With other essays. London,
'L\ Fisher Unwin, 1883.

“ The first edition was published under the title
‘ Literary bye-hours.’ In issuing this new edition it has
been considered advisable to give it a more distinctive
title,” — Preface.

Jerrold, W: Blanchard. The best of all good
company. First series. Dickens, Lytton, Thack-
eray, Scott, Disraeli, Douglas Jerrold. London,
Houlston and sons, 1873. Republished, with
omissions, by Shepard and Gill, Boston, 1874,
with the title “The best of all good company.

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Urst series. Dickens, Scott, Thackeray, Jerrold;”
also, in 1883, by R. Worthington, N. Y., with the
title “ Days with great authors, comprising choice
selections from Dickens, Scott, Thackeray, and
Douglas Jerrold.”

Jones, Cornelia. Heavenward led; or, the two
bequests. By Jane R. Sommers \^pseud.^. Phila.,
Porter and Coates, copyright, 1871.

The running-title and the half-title read “ Heavenward
bound; or, the two bequests.” Mr. Edmands states that
this story was first published under the title “ Heavenward
bound, etc.,” and that a change was made at the request of
the Presbyterian board of publication, which had already
published a book with the same title.

Jones, J. B. The Spanglers and Tingles; or, the
rival belles. Phila., A. Hart, 1852. — The
rival belles; or, life in Washington. Phila., T.
B. Peterson and bros. [1878.] — D. //.
Kimball, R: Burleigh. Romance of student life
abroad. N. Y., G. P. Putnam and co., 1853;
Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1854. — Students abroad.
N. Y., G. P. Putnam, 1862.

— To-day. N. Y., Carleton, 1870. — To-day in
New York. Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1870. D. H.
states, in the Library journal, that this was re-
published in New York, in the year 1881, by
Carleton, with the title “ An artful widow.”

— Was he successful? N. Y., G. W. Carleton,
1864. — His idol (author’s name removed), same
pubs., 1 880. D./L, in Library journal, June, 1883.

Kingston, W: H. G. The missing ship; or,
notes from the log of the Ouzel galley.
London, Griffith and Farrar. — Ouzel galley; or
notes from an old sea log. Same pubs., 1877.
Kinns, S: Moses and geology; or, the harmony
of the Bible with science. — The harmony of the
Bible with science; or, Moses and geology. [2d
edition.] Both, Cassell, P. G., and co., 1882.
Kirby, Mary and Elizabeth. The world at home.
London, T. Nelson and sons. 1880. — The world
by the fireside. Same pubs., 1883.

Kirkland, Caroline Matilda. Our new home in
the West. By Mrs. Mary Clavers (Mrs. C. M.
Kirkland). N. Y., J. Miller, 1872. Originally
published in 1839, with the title “ A new home;
who’ll follow? By Mary Clavers, an actual
settler.” N. Y., C. S. Francis.

Lacombe, Paul. The growth of a people : a short
study in French history. A translation of the
“ Petite histoire du peuple franqais,” by Lewis A.
Stimson. N. Y., H. Holt andco., 1883.

An earlier translation (Boston, H. A. Young and co.,
187S) is entitled “ A short history of the French people.”

Letters everywhere. London, Seeley, 1869;
Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1871. Republished
by the latter firm in 1881, with the title “Young
folks’ rhymes and stories.”

Lever, C: James. The O’Donoghue; a tale of
Ireland fifty years ago. Leipzig, Tauchnitz;
Various English editions, and Phila., Carey and
Hart. — Kate O’Donoghue. Phila., Peterson, no
date. — y. E.

Liefde, j. B. de. The beggars. (Les gueux.)
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1873. —
Galama; or, the beggars. N. Y., Scribner,
Armstrong and co.

“ Called Galama, that it may not be confounded with
‘ The beggars,’ which appeared in this country several
years ago.” — Publishers' note.

Lindley, Augustus F. A cruise in Chinese
waters, being the log of “ The Fortuna.” 4th
edition. London, Cassell, P. G., and co. [1882.]
An earlier edition was entitled “ The log of the
Fortuna.” — English catalogue.

Lover, S: He would be a gentleman. Various
editions.

First published with the title “Treasure trove.” —
Preface.

There are editions which have the old title on the cover
and the new one on the title-page. Whenever there are
such double entries confusion is apt to arise, as may be
seen under the name Winser in this list.

MacDonald, G: Orts. London, S. Low, 1882.
The American edition (Boston, D. Lothrop, 1883)
is called “ The imagination and other essays.”
McKnight, C: Captain Jack the scout; or, the
Indian wars about old Fort Duquesne. Phila.,
Porter and Coates, copyright, 1873. — Old Fort
Duquesne; or. Captain Jack the scout, Leipzig,
Tauchnitz. — Captain Jack. A story of In-
dian adventure. London, F. Warne and co.

[1874].

MacLeod, Rev. ^nvxQX, professor of rhetoric and
belles-lettres in St. Mary's College, Cincinnati.
History of the devotion to the blessed Virgin Mary
in North America. With a memoir of the author
by the most Rev. John B. Purcell. N. Y., Virtue
and Yorston, 1866. The same as “History of
Roman Catholicism in North America,” same
publishers. The notice of copyright is removed,
— The Dial, July, 1883, p. 72.

Macquoid, Katharine S. A faithful lover. London,
Hurst and Blackett, 1882, and Leipzig, Tauchnitz, ■
1882. — Esau Runswdck. N. Y., Putnam, 1882.
The same, with omissions and variations,
Manzoni, Alessandro. The betrothed (I promessi
sposi). Called in English editions “The be-
trothed lovers.”

Marryat, Florence. A broken blossom. London,
Tinsley bros., 1879; Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1879. —
Ange. N. Y., G. W. Carleton, 1879.

— A harvest of wild oats. London, Tinsley bros.,
1877; Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1877; N. Y., Carleton,
1877. Republished, N. Y., Carleton, 1879, as
“ Heart to heart.” The same publisher advertises
in 1881 “Wild oats, by Florence Marryat,”
which may possibly be a third issue of the same.
Martineau des Chesnez, Aladame la baronne
Elisabeth. Marquise and Rosette. London,
Strahan, no date. Published, Phila., Porter and
Coates, 1873, as “ Lady Greensatin and her maid
Rosette,” The original is “ La marquise de Satin -
vert et sa femme de chambre Rosette.” Paris,
1868.

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183

Mathews, Cornelius. The Indian fairy book.
N. Y., Leavitt and Allen, 1868. — The enchanted
moccasins, and other legends of the American In-
dians. N. Y., G. P. Putnam’s sons, 1877.
Maurer, Leberecht. Jesuiten oder Freimaurer?
Roman. Leipzig, Kruger und Roskoschny, 1876.
This story has been previously printed in periodicals
under the title “ Die Geheimbiindler ” and also as “ Neu-
tenipler und Rosenkreuzer.” — Preface.

May, T. P. A prince of Breffny. Phila., T. B.
Peterson and bros. [1881.] — Lady Edith. Same
pubs. [1882.] D.H.

Melville, G: J: Whyte. M. orN. London, Chap-
man and Hall, 1869; Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1869. —
•Maud or Nina. Boston, Estes and L. [1875.]
Mercer, C: Fenno. An exposition of the weak-
ness and inefficiency of the government of
the United States of North America. \^Anon.'\
n. p., printed for the author. 1845. — The weak-
ness and inefficiency of the government of the
United States of North America. By a late
American statesman. \^Anon.'] London, Houl-
ston and Wright, 1863.

These twoVorks are the same, with the addition of a
6-page introduction by the editor of the London edition,
and a slight difference in the wording of the first para-
graph of the work itself, — C. A. C.

Mery, Joseph. Through thick and thin. By
Joseph Mery. N. Y., G. W. Carleton, 1874. Re-
published by the same in 1879 as an anonymous
work, with the title “Only caprice.”

This is a ti*anslation of “ La guerre de Nizam.”

Model merchant. The, or memoirs of Samuel Budg-
ett. [^Anon.^ Phila., Presb. board of publication
(’1858], Abridged from “The successful mer-
chant, by W. Arthur.” London, 1852. — D. H.
Mountain, lake, and river. A series of twenty-
five steel line engravings from designs by W. H.
Bartlett and others. The descriptive text by N.
P, Willis and others. Boston : Estes and Lauriat.
1884 [1883].

The plates and text (with changes) are selected from
“ American scenery . . . from drawings by William

H. Bartlett, the literary department by N. P. Willis,
London, G. Virtue, 1838,” a famous book in its day.
Mundt, Clara Mueller. The merchant of Berlin.
By L. Muhlbach '\_pseud.\ Trans, by Amory
Coffin. N. Y., D. Appleton and co,, 1867. —
Frederick the great and his merchant. From
the German, by Lady Wallace. \_A7ion.'\ London,
Bentley, 1858. Translations of the same. — J. E.
Mysteries of crime. Boston, S. Walker and co.,
1870. — Celebrated murders. Chicago, Belfords,
Clarke andco., 1879. — D.H., va. Library journal.
Nichols, James Robinson, From whence, what,
where? Boston, printed for the author, 1882. —
Whence, what, where? A view of the origin,
nature, and destiny of man. 3d edition. Boston,
A. Williams andco., 1883.

North, W: The slave of the lamp. N. Y., H.
Long andbro. [1855.] — world.
Phila., T. B. Peterson and bros. [1877.] — D.H.
O’Meara, Kathleen. (^Gr ace Ramsay.^ The bells of

the sanctuary. A daughter of St. Dominick.
London, R. Washbourne, 1873. First published
in the Catholic world for February, 1873, under
the title of “A daughter of St. Dominic.”
Pancoast, S. Blue and red light, and its rays as
medicine. Phila,, J. M. Stoddard and co. [1877.]
The same as “ The Kabala; or, the true source
of light” (same publishers and same date).
Pardon, George F. Tales from the operas. N. Y.,
Carleton, 1865. Republished by the same in
1883 as “Book of the operas,” which might
naturally be supposed to be a libretto.

Parr, Louisa. The Prescotts of Pamphillon. Lon-
don, Isbister, 1873; Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1874. —
Hero Carthew, or the Prescotts of Pamphillon.
N. Y., Holt, 1873.

Payn, James. Like father, like son. London,
Tinsley, 1870; Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1871. — Bred
in the bone; or, like father, like son. N. Y.,
Harper and bros., 1872, — f. E.

Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer. Record of a school.
\_AnonP\ Boston, 1835. “ Record of Mr. Alcott’s
school. 3d edition. [Anon.'] Boston, Roberts
bros., 1874.

People, The, of Turkey : twenty years’ resi-
dence among Bulgarians [etc.]. By a consul’s
daughter and wife. Ed. by Stanley Lane-Poole,
London, J. Murray, 1878. — Twenty years’ resi-
dence among the people of Turkey [etc.]. N. Y.,
Harper, 1878.

Peters, Dewitt C. The life and adventures of Kit
Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky mountains.
N.Y., W. R. C. Clark & co., 1858. Repub-
lished, Hartford, Dustin, Gilman & co., copy-
right, 1873, as “ Kit Carson’s life and adventures,”
and Boston, Estes and Lauriat, copyright, 1880,
as “ Pioneer life and frontier adventures. An
authentic record of the romantic life and daring
exploits of Kit Carson and his companions.” —
IV. E. E.

There are alterations in the two later books.
Peterson, C: J. Kate Aylesford. A story of the
refugees. By Charles J. Peterson, copyright,
A. H. Simmons and co., 1855. — The heiress of
Sweetwater. By J. Thornton Randolph, author
of “The cabin and parlor,” copyright, 1873.
Both published by T. B. Peterson and bros. —
y.E.

Proteus has fairly outdone himself here, both title and
author being different in the two, while the books are
otherwise identical. It might be supposed that the latter
name is a pseudonym adopted by Mr. C. J. Peterson. It
appears as a real name in Allibone and many catalogues,
and Mr. Edmands states that it is that of a real personage.
He also states that “ The cabin and the parlor; or, slaves
and masters, by J. Thornton Randolph,” Phila., T. B.
Peterson, copyright, 1852, was also published by the same
as “Courtenay hall; or, the hospitality and life in a
planter’s family,” same publisher, no date.

Petrucelli della Gattina, Ferdinando. Popery
exposed. An exposition of popery as it is [etc.].
Trans, from the French by Robert E. Peterson.
Phila., T. B. Peterson [1875]. — Rome and the
papacy [etc ], same publishers, copyright, 1872.

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Phelps, Mrs. E .. vStuart. The sunny side ; or, the
country minister’s wife. By the author of “ Lit-
tle Kitty and her Bible verses.” Andover, 1851,
and elsewhere. — Manse of Sunnyside. Edinb.,
1855. same. — Allibone.

Pratt, L. Maria pseud. Laurie Loring). The
holiday album for girls, Boston, D. Lothrop and
Co., 1875. Identical with pp, 183-357 of the
“ Children’s picture story-book,” by the same
author and publisher.

The same author’s “ Holiday album for boys ” consists
of pp, 1-181 of the same book.

Randolph, J. Thornton. See Peterson, C: J.
Raymond, Rossiter Worthington.

The following- works, written by the author as United
States commissioner of mining statistics, were published
by the U.S. government: — i. Mineral resources of the
states and territories west of the Rocky mountains. 1869.

— 2, Statistics of mines and mining in the states and ter-
ritories west of the Rocky mountains. 1870. — 3. Same
title. 1871. — 4. Same title. 4th annual report. 1873. —
5. 5th annual report. 1S74. — These were republished in
N.Y. by J. B. Ford and co., with the following titles : —
1. The mines of the West: a report to the Secretary of
the treasury. 1869. — 2, Mines and mining of the Rocky
mountains, the inland basin and the Pacific slope. 1871.

— 3, Mines, mills, and furnaces of the Pacific states and

territories. 1871. — 4. Silver and gold [etc.]. 1S73. —

Mining industry of the states and territories of the Rocky
mountains, 1874.

Libraries, as well as private individuals, have received
the above books from the United States government, and
have afterwards purchased these reissues of the same
matter, at high prices ($3.50 to $4.50 each at retail), natu-
rally supposing that they were different books. The mo-
tive of the publishers was doubtless a good one, that these
books might reach many persons who would not other-
wise see them. It would have been better to have kept
the original titles.

Reid, Mayne. Lost Lenore. N. Y., G. W. Carle-
ton and CO., no date. — Heart and hand. Pub-
lished anonymously, by the same, the author’s
name being removed. 1881. — Z>. iY., in Library
journal, June, 1883.

— The maroon. By Captain Mayne Reid. Lon-
don, Routledge; N. Y., R. M. Dewitt; N. Y.,
Carleton.

This book, a familiar one at bookstores and libraries
for more than twenty years, has been republished recently
by G. W. Carleton & co., with changes, and omitting
the name of the author. The title is changed to " A
love spell.” If the practice of changing the titles of
books is a bad one, to omit the author’s name at the same
time, as is sometimes the custom nowadays, is doubly evil. ^
Apart from moral considerations, think how thts and
such practices as we have been considering tend to oblit-
erate all definiteness and exactness in literary records and
statistics, and to rob them of all their significance. There
but remains to alter the text of the original to suit one’s
fancy, as is done in several of the reprints mentioned in
this list, to inaugurate chaos.

1 It would be interesting to know liow the poor authors feel who
are thus summarily robbed of their children.

— Odd people. Boston, Osgood, 1874. Re-
published, N. Y., J. Miller, 1876, as “The man-
eaters and other odd people.”

— The quadroon. N.Y., R. M. Dewitt [1856].
— Love’s vengeance. (Author’s name removed.)
G. W. Carleton and co., 1880. — D. H., in Li-
brary journal, June, 1883.

Richardson, C. J. The Englishman’s house from
a cottage to a mansion. London, J. C. Hotten
[1870]. — House-building, from a cottage to a
mansion. N. Y., Putnam, 1873.

Mr. Edmands calls attention to the fact that both the
above are the same, with trifling exceptions, as “ Pictu-
resque designs for mansions, villas, lodges, etc.,” by the
same author, London, Atchley and co., 1870, price 42
shillings. The Mercantile Library of Philadelphia, and
the Boston Public Library, and, doubtless, other institu-
tions, have copies of all three of these expensive works,
purchased on the supposition that they were different
books, where one of them would serve the purpose.
Ritchie, Leitch. The British world in the East.
London, Allen and co., 1847. — History of the
Oriental nations. London, 1848. — W. F. P.
Roberts, Margaret. The atelier du Lys. London,
Longmans, 1876. Reprinted with the title

“Noblesse oblige. By the author of Mile.

Mori.” N. Y., H. Holt, 1876.

The author complains in the Literary -world, 14,

1883, p. 225, that this story was republished under a change
of title, without her knowledge. Moreover, she disap-
proves of the change, especially from the fact that the
new title is the same as one already given to a story by
Sarah Tytler (Henrietta Keddie).

Robinson, Phil. Under the sun. Boston, Roberts,
1882.

Made up of parts of the author’s ” Noah’s ark,” ” In my
Indian garden,” ” Under the punkah,” with other matter.
The title reads, ” By the author of” these three mentioned
books ; leaving the impression that it has no connection
with them.

Roe, Azel Stevens. How could he help it? N. Y.,
Derby and Jackson, i860. — Give me thine heart.
(Author’s name removed.) G. W. Carleton and
CO., 1880. — D.LL.,\n Library journal, ]\xnQ, 1883.

— James Montjoy ; or, I’ve been thinking. N. Y.,
D. Appleton and co., copyright, 1849.

G. W. Carleton and co. have advertised under Roe’s
name ” I’ve been thinking,” possibly a second issue.

— True to the last. N. Y., Derby and Jackson,
1858. — Faithful to the end. (Author’s name
removed.) G. W. Carleton and co., 1881. —
D. LL., in Library journal, June, 1883.

Rood, Ogden N. Modern chromatics, with appli-
cations to art and industry. — Students’ text-book
of color; or, modern chromatics [etc.].

These, which are the same, were published in 1879 and
1881 by D. Appleton and co., in “The international
scientific series.”

Roofer, G. The fox at home; and other tales.
London, Flardwicke and Bogue, 1877.

First published in 1S74, under the title ” Tales and
sketches,” without a publisher’s name. — Preface.

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185

Rosseti'I, Daniel Gal^riel, The early Italian poets
from Ciullo d’ Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (iioo-
1200-1300) in the original metres, together with
Dante’s Vita nuova. London, Smith, Elder and co.,
1861. Republished, Boston, Roberts brothers,
1876, in a rearranged form, with the title “ Dante
and his circle.”

Ruffini, Giovanni. The Paragreens on a visit to
the Paris universal exhibition. N. Y., Dix, Ed-
wards and CO., 1857. — Dear experience. N. Y.,
Rudd and Car leton, 1861. — y. E.

Samuels, E: A. The ornithology and oology of
New England. Boston, Nichols and Noyes, 1 867.
Republished, Boston, Noyes, Holmes and co.,
with the title “The birds of New England and
adjacent states; ” and again, with some additional
matter, N. Y., R. Worthington, 1883, as “ Our
northern and eastern birds.”

Sand, George. La petite Fadette. Translated,
“Little Fadette.” London, Slater, 1849; Lon-
don, Weldon, 1878. — “Fadette. From the
French by Matilda M. Hays.” N. Y., G. P. Put-
nam, copyright, 1851. — “ Fanchon the cricket.
Trans, by Matilda M. Hays.” .N. Y., F. Ley-
poldt, 1863. — “Fanchon the cricket; or. La
petite Fadette.” Phila., T. B. Peterson and bros.,
copyright, 1871.

Saunders, F: About woman, love, and marriage.
1868. — Love and marriage. 1879. Both, G. W.
Carleton and co. — D. H.

Savage, Mrs. W. T. Miramichi. \_Anon.'\ Boston,
Loring, copyright, 1865. — “ Adele Dubois: a
story of the lovely Miramichi valley in New
Brunswick,” same publisher.

Schaeffle, Albert Eberhard Friedrich. Bau und
Leben des socialen Korpers. Tubingen, H.
Laupp, 1875-1878. 4 v.

The third volume is published separately, with the title

“ Kapitalismus und Socialismus,” of which M. Kauf-

mann’s “ Socialism,” London, 1874, is a condensed and

altered translation.

Sears, Edmund Hamilton. Athanasia; or, fore-
gleams of immortality. Boston, American Uni-
tarian association, i%8. The revised edition,
Phila., Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 12th
edition, 1873, is entitled “ Foregleams and fore-
shadows of immortality.”

Sheppard, E .. Sara. My first season. By Beatrice
Reynolds {^pseudA^. London, Smith and Elder,
1855; N. Y., W. P. Fetridge and co., 1856. —
The matchmaker. By Beatrice Reynolds. Phila.,
T. B. Peterson and bros., no date. The same.

-y.E.

Simms, W: Gilmore. Life in America; or, the wig-
wam and the cabin. Aberdeen, G. Clark and
son, 1848. — Wigwam and cabin. N. Y., J. S.
Redfield, copyright, 1856; W. J. Widdleton,
1864.-7. E.

— Woodcraft; or, the hawks about the dovecote.
N. Y., J. S. Redfield, copyright, 1854. — The
sword and the distaff; or, “fair, fat, and forty.”
Phila., Lippincott, Grambo and co., 1853. — J. E.

Social etiquette and home culture. The glass of
fashion. By the Lounger in society. N. Y., Har-
per [1878J. — The glass of fashion. By the
Lounger in society. London,}. Hogg, 1881.

SouTHWORTil, Mrs. Fallen pride. — The curse of
Clifton. Both published by Peterson. The
same. — y. E.

— The gipsy’s prophecy; or, the bride of an even-
ing, 1861. — The bride of an evening. Both
Phila., T. B. Peterson, —y. E.

— The prince of darkness. Phila., Peterson, copy-
right, 1869. Originally published with the title
“ Hickory hall; or the outcast. Aromanceof the
Blue Ridge.” Phila.,T. B. Peterson & bro. [1861.]

— Virginia and Magdalene. 1851. — The two sisters ;
or, Virginia and Magdalene. 1858. Both, Phila.,
T. B. Peterson. — y. E.

Speaker’s garland. The, and literary bouquet.
Phila., P. Garrett and co.

The various numbers of “ One hundred choice selec-
tions,” same publishers, united in one volume.

Spencer, Captain Edmund. The fall of the Crimea.
London, Routledge, 1854. First published in Lon-
don, 1840, with the title, “ The prophet of the
Caucasus.” — Preface.

Spurgeon, C: Haddon. The matchless mystery.
N. Y., Sheldon and co., 1878. The same as the
Tenth series of his Sermons.

Stabler, Jennie Latham. Left to herself. By
Jennie Woodville \^pseudC\. Phila.,}. B. Lippin-
cott and co., 1871. — Edith’s mistake; or left to
herself. Same pubs., copyright, 1874.

Stables, W. Gordon. Cats : their points and
characteristics [etc.]. London, Dean and son
[1874]. — Friends in fur; true tales of cat life.
Same pubs. [1877.]

Stimson, Alexander Lovett. Easy Nat; or, the
three apprentices. — New England boys; or, the
three apprentices. Both, N. Y., J. C. Derby,
1856. —

Stokes, F : Abbot. College tramps : a narrative of
the adventures of a party of Yale students
during a summer vacation in Europe. N. Y.,
Carleton, 1880. — A jolly summer. N. Y., White,
Stokes and Allen, 1883.

Stowe, Harriet E .. Beecher. Dred : a tale of the
Great Dismal swamp. Boston, Phillips, Sampson
and CO., 1856. — Nina Gordon: a tale of the
Great Dismal swamp. Boston, Osgood, 1878.

— Men of our times. Hartford publishing co.,
1869. — The lives and deeds of our self-made
men. Hartford, Worthington, Dustin and co.,

1872. The life of B. Gratz Brown is added.

— Oldtown fireside stories. Boston, Osgood,

1873. — Sam Lawson’s Oldtown fireside stories,
same publishers and date.

Strauss, Gerhard Friedrich Abraham. The glory
of the house of Israel ; or, the Hebrew’s pil-
grimage to the Holy City. Phila., Lippincott, 1873.
A translation of “ Melons Wallfahrt nacli Jerusalem.”

It had been published some years before in London and

Boston with the title, “ Melon’s pilgrimage to Jerusalem.”

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BUFFALO CONFERENCE.

Stretton, Julia Cecilia. The valley of a hundred
fires. By the author of “ Margaret and her
bridesmaids.” London, Hurst and Blackett,
i860. — The rector’s wife; or, the valley of a
hundred fires. By the author [etc.]. Phila.,
T. B. Peterson and bros., no date. The same.

-y.E.

Students’, The, encyclopaedia of universal knowl-
edge (vol. I, London, Ilodder and Stoughton,
1883).

“ Merely a new issue of the Globe encyclopaedia
(Edinb., Jack, 1S76-79, 6 v.). The old plates have been
used, but some changes have been made. Unluckily for
the purchaser, in many cases in the statistics, though the
year has been changed, the other figures have been left as
they stood before.” — Library journal, May, 1883,15.9.
See also The Academy, March 31, 18S3, p. 219.

Terhune, M .. Virginia. Colonel Floyd’s wards.
By Marion Harland '['pseud.'\. N. Y., Sheldon
and CO., 1863. — Helen Gardner’s wedding-day;
or Colonel Floyd’s wards. By Marion Harland.
N. Y., Carleton, copyright, 1870.

— Husks. By Marion Harland \_pseud.'\. N. Y.,
Sheldon and co., 1863. — The empty heart; or,
husks. By Marion Harland. N. Y., Carleton,
copyright, 1870.

Thimm, Franz. Modern languages. N. Y., Dick
and Fitzgerald [1872]. First published as four
independent books, viz. : “French self-taught”;
“German self-taught”; “Spanish self-taught”;
“ Italian self-taught.”

Thompson, Clara Monica. The rectory of More-
land; or, my duty. Boston, J. E. Tilton and co.,
i860. Republished by the same in 1864, as
“Mary Evans; or, the rectory of Moreland.”

Thompson, Robert Ellis. Elements of political
economy, with especial reference to the industrial
history of nations. Phila., Porter and Coates,
1882. A third edition of the author’s “Social
science and national economy,” same publishers,

1875-

Tocqueville, Alexis C: H: Clerel de.

An American translation of De Tocqueville’s “ De la
democratic en Amerique,” N. Y., A. S. Barnes and co.,
1851, is entitled “ The republic of the United States of
America, and its political Institutions, reviewed and ex-
amined. Trans, by Henry Reeves [Reeve]. With pref-
ace and notes by John C. Spencer.” Prof. Bowen’s re-
vision of this translation, Cambridge, John Bartlett, 1862,
following the original title, is called “Democracy in
America,” and this is the title of the edition published in
England.

The first volume of both translations has been issued
at these two publishing houses, with the title “American
institutions.”

Topelius, Zacharias. Gustav Adolf and the thirty
years’ war. Trans, by Selma Borg and Marie
A. Brown. N. Y., Carleton, 1872. — The sur-
geon’s stories. Times of Gustav Adolf. Chi-
cago, Jansen, McClurg and co., 1883.

Different translations of the same story.

Tourgee, Albion W. Toinette. A novel by Henry
Churton \_pseud7\. N. Y., J. B. lord and co.,
1 874. Republished, under the author’s real name,
by Fords, Howard and Hulbert, 1881, with the
title “ A royal gentleman.” — Preface.

Towner, Ausburn. After long years; or, Che-
dayne of Kotono. A story of the early days of
the Republic. A reissue of “ Chedayne of Ko-
tono. A story of the early days of the Repub-
lic.”— Publishers' preface. Both published by
Dodd, Mead and co., N. Y., one in 1877, the
other in 1882. — D. //. *

Trollope, Frances. The young countess; or, love
and jealousy. London, Colburn, 1848. — Love
and jealousy. — J. E.

Trollope, T: Adolphus. Giulio Malatesta; a novel.
London, Chapman and Hall, 1863; Phila., T. B.
Peterson and bros., 1869. — The sealed packet.
Phila., T. B. Peterson and bros., no date. — J. E.

Trowbridge, J: Townsend. The drummer boy.
Boston, J. E. Tilton and co., 1863. — Frank
Manly, the drummer boy. A story of the war.
Boston, W. F. Gill and co., 1876.

— Phil and his friends. Boston, Lee and Shepard,
1884 [1883J. Doubtless the same as “ Philip
Farlow and his friends.” London, F. Warne
and CO., 1883. — J. E.

— Who won at last? or, every-day progress. Lon-
don, F. Warne, no date. The first English
edition was entitled, “ How to rise in the world.”
London [1875]. — Publishers' notice.

Both contain the two stories, “Jack Hazard and his

fortunes ” and “ Doing his best,” which have been pub-
lished independently.

— See Boys and girls’ miscellany.

Tucker, St. George. Hansford. Richmond, Va.,
G. M: West, 1857. — The devoted bride. Phila.,
T. B. Peterson and bros. [1878.] — D. H., in
the Library journal, August, 1883.

Tuthill, L.. Caroline. Beautiful Bertha. N. Y., C.
Scribner, 1855. — Noble aims; or, beautiful
Bertha and Edith. N. Y., World pub. co., 1876.

Two ways to wedlock. N. Y., Rudd and Carleton,
1859. — False pride; or, two ways to matri-
mony. Phila., T. B. Peterson and bros., 1866. —
Two ways to matrimony; or, false pride. Phila.,
T B. Peterson and bros. [1878.] — D. H., in
Library journal, Aug., 1883 (with additions by
J. L. W.).

Up de Graff, Thad. S. Bodines; or, camping on
the Lycoming. Phila., J. B. Lippincott and co.,
1879. Reprinted by the same, 1883, as “ Camp-
ing on the Alleghanies; or, Bodine’s idea.”

Valentine, Mrs. — . Kate Duncan; or, hidden
wrong. London, F. Warne and co. [1877.]
Published by the same in 1876 under the title
“ Maidenhood; or, the verge of the stream.”

Verne, Jules. Adventures in the land of the
behemoth. Boston, H. L. Shepard and co., 1874.
— Meridiana: the adventures of three English-
men and three Russians in South Africa. N. Y.,
Scribner, 1874. (Published also as a part of

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“ Stories of adventure,” same publishers, 1874.)

— The adventures of three Englishmen and three
Russians in South Africa. Trans, by Ellen E.
Frewer. London, S. Low, 1876.

All these are tmnslations of “ Les aventures de trois
Russes et de ti'ois Anglais,” Paris, 1872, which title
differs from those of all the translations.

— Around the world in eighty days; trans. by G.
M. Towle. Thila., Porter and Coates, no date.

— Tour of the world in eighty days; trans. by
G. M, Towle. Boston, J. R. Osgood, 1873.

— The child of the cavern; or, strange doings
underground. Trans, by W. H. G. Kingston.
London, S. Low, 1877. — Underground city; or,
the child of the cavern. Trans, by W. H. G.
Kingston. Phila., Porter and Coates, no date.

— Dr. Ox, and other stories; trans. by G. M.
Towle. Boston, J. R. Osgood, 1875. — From the
clouds to the mountains; trans. by A. L. Alger.
Boston, W. F. Gill and co., 1874.

— The English at the North pole. — A journey to
the North pole. — Voyages and adventures of
Captain Hatteras, the English at the North pole.

— The adventures of Captain Hatteras. Part i.
These four, published in England and America, are

translations of “ Les Anglais au pole nord.”

— To the sun? A journey through planetary
space. From the French, by Edward Roth.
Phila., Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1878.
Constitutes Part i of “ Hector Servadac,” London, S.

Low.

For further changes in the stories of this author con-
sult “The American catalogue.”

Warburton, Eliot Bartholomew George. The
crescent and the cross; or, romance and realities
of Eastern travel. By Eliot Warburton. Lop-
don, 1844, later editions, Hurst and Blackett,
and N. Y., Wiley and Putnam, 1845. — Travels
in Egypt and the Holy Land; or, the crescent
and the cross. Comprising the romance and
realities of Eastern travel. By Eliot Warburton.
Phila., H. C. Peck and Theo. Bliss, 1859. — There
are some changes in the latter.

Ware, William. Probus : or, Rome in the third
century. N. Y., C. S. P'rancis, 1838. — Aurelian;
or, Rome in the third century. Same publishers,
1849, and later dates.

Warfield, Catharine Anne. The romance of
Beauseincourt. An episode extracted . from the
retrospect of Miriam Montfort. N. Y., G. W.
Carleton and CO., 1867. — Miriam’s memoirs. A
sequel to “ Montfort Hall,” being a romance of
the house of Beauseincourt. Phila., T. B. Peter-
son and bros., copyright, 1876. — J. E.

Warner, C: Dudley. Mummies and Moslems.
Hartford, American pub. co., . 1876. Repub-
lished, same date, by the same, with the title
“ My winter on the Nile, among the mummies
and Moslems.”

Watson, PI: C. The old bell of independence;
or, Philadelphia in 1776. Phila., Lindsay and
Blakiston, 1852. Republished, Boston, Lee and
Shepard, no date, with the title “ Noble deeds of
our forefathers.”

Webber, C: Wilkins. The hunter naturalist; ro-
mance of sporting; or, wild scenes and wild
hunters. Phila., J. W. Bradley, 1851; and, with
the same title, Phila., Lippincott, Grambo and
CO., 1854. — Romance of natural history; or,
wild scenes and wild hunters. Phila., Lippin-
cott, Grambo and co., 1852. The same. — J-E.
Webber, S: jr. Manual of power for machines,
shafts, and belts. With the history of cotton
manufacture in the United States [to 1876. 2d
ed.]. N. Y., D. Appleton and co., 1879. The
first edition was published under the title of
“Tests of power.” — Preface.

Western farmer’s. The, new and universal hand-
book. Chicago, Keen and Lee, 1856. Repub-
lished, N. Y., G. W. Carleton and co., 1880, as
“ The American farmer. 13th ed. Reedited by
F. W. O’Niell and H. L. Williams.” —D. H.
Westmoreland, Maria Jourdan. Clifford Troup.
N. Y., G. W Carleton and co., 1873. — Drifted
together. \_Anon.'\ Same pubs., 1880. — D. H.
Whittaker, F: Away westward; or, the cadet
button. London, W. Mullan and son, 1879.
The same as “The cadet button.” N. Y.,
Sheldon and co.

The headings of the chapters, and in some cases the
wording, have been altered.

Whitty, E: Michael. Friends of Bohemia: or,
phases of London life. London, Smith, Elder
and CO., 1857. — Knaves and fools; or, friends
of Bohemia. N. Y., Rudd and Carleton, 1857.
— The Bohemians of London. Phila., T. B.
Peterson and bro., no date. — J. E.

Who wrote it? A dictionary of common poetical
quotations in the English language. London, G.
Bell and sons, 1878. A new and enlarged edition
of “ Where is it? ” London, 1855. — Preface.
Whymper, E. Scrambles amongst the Alps in the
years 1860-69. London, John Murray, 1871.
Readers of this book, doubly interesting from its text
and striking wood-cuts, were eager to purchase what they
supposed was to be its sequel in “ The ascent of the Mat-
terhorn,” same publisher, 18S0. They discovered, how-
ever, that the new book uses the plates and text of the old
one, with some omissions, and, apparently, few additions.
If published as a second edition with the same title, few
after a comparison of the two, having paid six dollars or
thereabouts for the first, would have purchased the second ;
whereas many copies of the book under its new title have
been sold in this country to those who supposed it to be
a description of new adventures. The compiler of this
list has not been able to find any allusion in the later
book to the earlier one.

WiKOFF, H: The adventures of a roving diplo-

matist. N. Y., W. P. Fetridge and co., 1857. —
A New Yorker in the foreign office, and his ad-
ventures in Paris. London, Triibner and co.,
1858. — W. F. P.

BUFFALO CONFERENCE.

Willard, Clara A. Fifty years ago. N. Y., Ran-
dolph, copyright, 1871. — The Winthrop family;
a story of New England life fifty years ago. Lon-
don, 1 fodder and Stoughton, 1880.

Williamson, E. II. The Quaker partisans. A
story of the revolution. \^Anon.'\ Phila., J. B.
Lippincolt and co., 1869. Republished by the
same, 1876, as “ Clayton’s rangers; or the Quaker
partisans.” \_Anon.'\ — D. II.

WiNSER, II: J. The great North-west. N. Y.,
Putnam’s sons. 1883.

Bears upon its side the title “Guide to the Northern
Pacific railroad and its allied lines”; upon its back,
“Northern Pacific railroad”; upon its title-page, “The
great North-west, a guide-book and itinerary ” [etc.] ; and
in its publishers’ advertisements, “ The tourist’s guide to
the Northern Pacific railroad.” Of course the book is
quite likely to find its way into catalogues under each of
the four titles, creating an irritating confusion. — The Dial,
Oct., 1SS3, p. 140,

Witt, C. Myths of Hellas; or Greek tales. Told
in German by Professor C. Witt. Translated into
English by Frances Younghusband. With a
preface by Arthur Sedgwick. London, Long-
mans, Green and co., 1883. Republished, N. Y.,
H. Holt and co., 1883, with the title, “ Classic
mythology [etc.]. Supplemented with a glossary
of etymologies and related myths.”

The original is entitled, “ Griechische Gbtter- und Hel-
dengeschichten.”

Witt, Henriette de, formerly Mile. Guizot.
Motherless; or a Parisian family. N. Y., Harper
and bros., 1871; N. Y., G. Munro, 1879.
(Seaside library. No. 628.) — A Parisian family,
London, S. Low, Son & Marston, 1871. —
Both translated by the author of “ John Halifax,
gentleman,” and the same. — D. H.

Wood, Ella Price. (Mrs. Henry Wood.) The
earl’s heirs. Phila., Peterson, copyright, 1862.
— Lord Oakburn’s daughters. By the author
of . . . The earl’s heirs. Same publishers, copy-
right, 1865.

The same story, in a somewhat different setting.

• — Johnny Ludlow. [187-.] — Under the rose.
By the author of East Lynne, \^Anon.'\ [878.

Both, N. Y., G. W. Carleton and co,— H.

— Lady Adelaide’s oath. London, new edition,
Bentley, 1867. — The castle’s heir; or. Lady Ad-
elaide’s oath. Phila., T. B. Peterson and bros.,
no date, — Out of the deep. Boston, W. F. Gill
and CO., 1876.

— The mystery. A love story. Phila., Peterson,
no date. This appears to be “Anne Hereford”
(London, Tinsley bros., 1868; Leipzig, Tauchnitz,
1869), with variations.

— Parkwater; or, told in the twilight. Phila., T.
B. Peterson, no date. A portion only of “Told
in the twilight.” London, R. Bentley, 1875,
Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1875.

— Trevlyn Hood; or. Squire Trevlyn’s heir. Lon-
don, Tinsley, 1864; Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1864 —
Squire Trevlyn’s heir. Phila , T. B. Peterson,
no date. — J. E.

Wood, G: Future life; or, scenes in another
world. N. Y., Derby and Jackson, 1858.

After the publication of “ The gates ajar” by Miss

Phelps, this reappeared, Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1871,

as “The gates wide open.”

Yates, Edmund. Two, by tricks. London, Rout-
ledge, 1875, and Leipzig, Tauchnitz, same date.
Published, Boston, W. F. Gill and co., 1875,
with the title, “ Wages of sin.”

Yonge, C •• Mary. Richard the fearless; or, the
little duke. N. Y., D. Appleton and co. [1857,
and often since.] The same as “The little
duke; Richard the fearless.” Leipzig, Tauchnitz,
i860; Boston, D. Lothrop and co., i88i.

Zola, Emile. The abbe’s temptation. (La faute
de I’abbe Mouret.) Trans, by John Stirling.
[1879.] — Albine; or, the abbe’s temptation.
(La faute de I’abbe Mouret.) [1882.] Both,
Phila., T. B. Peterson and bros., and the same.
— D. H.

— The bonheur des dames; or, the shop girls of
Paris. Phila., Peterson [1883]. — The ladies’
paradise; or, the bonheur des dames, same pub-
lisher [1883].

— Claude’s confession. Trans, by George D. Cox.
Phila., T. B. Peterson and bros. [1882.] — A
terrible confession; or, the sufferings of a lost
soul in a garret. (La confession de Claude.)
N. Y., F. Tousey, 1882. (Brookside library. No.
214.) The same. — D. H.

— The conquest of Plassans. A tale of provincial
life. (La conquete de Plassans.) Trans, by
John Stirling. — A mad love; or, the abbe and
his court. ( La conquete de Plassans.) Trans,
by John Stirling. Both, Phila., T. B. Peterson
and bros. [1879 and 1882], and the same. — D. H.

— The girl in scarlet ; or, the love of Silvere and

Miette. (La fortune des Rougon.) Trans, by
John Stirling. Phila., T. B. Peterson and bros.
[1882.]— The Rougon-Macquart family. (La
fortune des Rougon.) Trans, by John Stirling.
Same pubs. [1879.] . The same. — D. H.

— Helene. A love episode. Trans, by Mary Neal
Sherwood. Phila., T. B. Peterson and bros.
[1878.] — A woman’s heart, or, a stray leaf from
the book of love. (Une page d’amour.) N. Y ,
F. Tousey, 1883. (Brookside library. No. 286.)
The same. — D. II.

— The markets of Paris. (Le ventre de Paris.)
Trans, by John Stirling, 1877. — La belle Lisa;
or, the Paris market girl. (Le ventre de Paris.)
Trans. . by John Stirling, 1883. Both, Phila., T.
B. Peterson, and the same. — Publishers’ weekly.

— Thdrese Raquin. A novel. Trans, by John
Stirling. Phila., T. B. Peterson and bro. [1881.]
— Nemesis; or, haunted by the spectre of a

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murdered man. N. Y., F. Tousey, 1883. (Brook-
side library, No. 242.) The same. — D. II.

— Zola’s court of Napoleon III. Clorinda; or,
the rise of his excellency Eugene Rougon. The
man of promise. Three times a minister. [1880.]
— The mysteries of the court of Louis Napoleon.
[1882.] Both, Phila., T. B. Peterson and bros.
— D. II.

ZsCHOKKE, J: Heinrich Daniel. Meditations on life,
death, and eternity. Trans, from the German
by PYederica Rowan. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin
and CO., 1883.

The two parts of this work, here united, were pub-
lished separately by Ticknor and Fields, under the titles
“ Meditations on death and eternity” and “ Meditations
on life and its religious duties.”

INDEX.

Abba’s temptation, The. Zola,

About woman, love and marriage. Saunders, F:

Act^. Dumas, A. D.

Acte of Corinth. Dumas, A. D.

Address on being installed as rector. Carlyle, T:

Adele Dubois. Savage, Mrs. W. T.

Adventures in Africa. Harris, Sir W. C.

Adventures in the land of the behemoth. Verne, J.

(Les aventures de trois Russes et de trois Anglais.)
Adventures, The, of a roving diplomatist. Wikoff, H;
Adventures, The, of three Englishmen [etc.]. Verne, J.
Adventures, The, of V erdant Green. Bradley, E.
Aegyptische Kbnigstochter. Ebers, G; M.

After long years.^ Towner, A.

Albine. Zola, E.

All for her. See Cruel seci et, A.

Am Altar. Buerstenbinder, E..

American farmer. The. See Western farmer’s [etc.].
Americ.an institutions. Tocqueville, A. C: H: C. cle.
American scenery. See Mountain, lake, and river.

Amy Martin. Grosvenor, Mrs. H. S.

Andree de Taverney. (La comtesse de Charny, last part.)

Dumas, A. D.

Ange. Marryat, Florence.

Ange Pitou. Dumas, A. D.

Anne Hereford. Wood, Ella P.

Arabic heureuse. Dumas, A. D.

Archy Moore. Hildreth, R.

Around the world in eighty days. V ei'ne, J.

Art, The, of conversation. See Guide to accomplishments.
Artful widow. An. Kimball, R; B.

Arthur, W. The successful merchant. See Model mer-
chant. The.

Arts, The, of writing. See Guide to accomplishments.
Arzt, Ein, der Seele. Hillern, Wilhelmine von.

Ascent, The, of the Matterhorn. Whymper, E.

Aster, Mrs. Jane. See Guide to accomplishments; —
Habits of good society.

At a high price. Buerstenbinder, E..

At the altar. Buerstenbinder, E..

At the eleventh hour. Edwardes, Annie.

Atelier du Lys, The. Roberts, Margaret.

Athanasia. Sears, E. H.

Atlantic tales. {Anon.')

Aurelian. Ware, W.

Aventures, Les, de trois Russes et de trois Anglais.
Verne, J.

Away westward. Whittaker, F:

Ballet dancer’s husband. Feydeau, E. A.

Ballroom repentance, A. Edwardes, Annie.

Barberine. (Le mari de ladanseuse.) Feydeau, E. A.
Barefoot maiden. The. Auerbach, B.

Barfiissele. Auerbach, B.

Barrington’s fate. Hunt, Mrs. A. W.

Batard, Le, de Mauleon. Dumas, A. D.

Bau und Leben des socialen Korpers. Schaeffle, A. E. F.
Beau Tancred. (Sylvandire.) Dumas, A. D.

Beautiful Bertha. Tuthill, L.. C.

Beautiful spy. The. Burdett, C;

Beggars, The. Liefde, J. B. de. ^

Belle Lisa, La. (Le ventre de Paris.) Zola, S.

Bells, The, of the sanctuary. O’Meara, Kathleen.

Bengal peasant life. Day, L^l Behari.

Bertha’s baby. Droz, G.

Best, The, of all good company. Jerrold, W; Blanchard.
Betrothed, The. Manzoni, A.

Birds, The, and seasons of New England. Flagg, W.
Birds, The, of New England. Samuels, E; A.

Black Venus, The. (La Venus noire.) Belot, A.

Bloody chasm. The. De Forest, J: W.

Blue and red light. Pancoast, S.

Bodines. Up de Graff, T. S.

Bohemians, The, of London^ Whitty, E; M.

Bonheur des dames. Zola, E.

Bonnybel Vane. Cooke, J; Esten.

Book of the operas. Pardon, G. F.

Borderers, The, Cooper, J. Fenimore.

Borders, The, of the Tamar and the Tavy. Bray, AnnaE.
Bound by his vows. Buerstenbinder, E..

Bound to John Company. Braddon, Mary E..

Boys and girls’ miscellany. {Anoni)

Boys, The, of ’61. Coffin, C; C.

Bragelonne. (Le vicomte de Bragelonne.) Dumas, A. D.
Bred in the bone. Payn, J.

Bride, The, of an evening. Southworth, Mrs.

Bright morning. Grant, Maria M.

British world, The, in the East. Ritchie, L.

Broken blosom, A. Marryat, Florence.

Broken chains. Buerstenbinder, E..

Bubbles from the brunnens of Nassau ; Bubbles from some
brunnens of Germany. Head, Sir F. B.

Buried alive. (Pauline.) Dumas, A. D.

By order of the king. (L’homme qui rit.) Hugo, V. M.

Cabin, The, and the parlor, by J. Thornton Randolph.

See Peterson, C: J.

Cadet button. The. Whittaker, F;

Camors. Feuillet, O.

Camping on the Alleghanies. Up de Graff, T. S.
Capitaine Paul, Le. Dumas, A. D.

Capitaine Richard, Le. Dumas, A. D.

Captain Hatteras. Verne, J.

Captain Jack the scout. McKnight, C;

Captain Paul. Dumas, A. D.

Carleton’s household physician. Ayres, J. H.

Carnaval, Le, des enfants. Feval, P. H. C.

Castle’s heir, The. Wood, Ella P.

Catherine Blum. Dumas, A. D.

Cats; their points and characteristics. Stables, W. G.
Celebrated murders. See Mysterigs of crime.

Chance marriage, A. Gaboriau, E.

Chautauqua girls. The, at home. Alden, Isabella M.
Chedayne of Kotono. Towner, A.

Chevalier, Le, d’Harmental. Dumas, A. D.

Chicot the jester. (Ladame de Monsoreau.) Dumas, A. D.
Child, The, of the cavern. Verne, J.

Children’s picture story-book. Pratt, L. Maria.

Child’s catechism of common things. Champlin, J; D.
Choice of books. On the. Carlyle, T:

Christian Osborne’s friends. Davidson, Harriet M.
Churton, Henry, pseudonym of Albion W. Tourgee.
Classic mythology. Witt, C.^

Claude’s confession. Zola, E.

Clavers, Marj', pseudonym of Caroline M. Kirkland.
Clayton’s rangers. Williamson, E. H.

Clifford Troup. Westmoreland, Maria J.

Clique, The, of gqld. Gaboriau, E.

Clorinda. Zola, E.

College days at Oxford. Adams, H; C.

College tramps. Stokes, F: A.

Colonel Floyd’s wards. Terhune, M.. Virginia.
Comtesse de Charny, La. Dumas,^A. D.

Confession, La, de Claude. Zola, E.

Conquest, The, of Plassans. Zola,,E.

Conquete, La, de Plassans. Zola, E.

Conscience I’innocent. Dumas, A. D.

Conscript, The. (Conscience I’innocent.) Dumas, A. D.
Conspirators, The. (Le chevalier d’Harmental.) Du-
mas, A. D.

BUFFALO CONFERENCE,

Cooking club, The. Farman, Ella.

Cooking club, The, of Tu-whrt Hollow. Farman, Ella.
Copp’s llill burial-ground. Epitaphs. Bridgman, T;
Count de Camors, The. Feuillet, O.

Countess de Charny, The. Dumas, A. D.

Courtenay hall, by J. Thornton Randolph. See Peterson,
C; J.

Cox, Edward W. The arts of writing [etc.]. See Guide.
Cox, G. W. The little cyclopaedia of common things.

Champlin, T: D.,jr.

Creeds. Edwardes, Annie.

Crescent, The, and the cross. Warburton, E. B. G.

Cruel secret, A. (A«oh.)

Cruise in Chinese waters. Lindley, A. F.

Cupples, Mrs. George. See Cupples, Ann J.

Curious stories. See Ghost stories.

Curse, The, of Clifton. Southworth, Mrs.

Dame, La, de Monsoreau. Dumas, A. D.

Dante and his circle. Rossetti, D. G.

Daughter, The, of an Egyptian king. Ebers, G: M.
Daughter, A, of St. Dominic. O'Meara, Kathleen.
Daviola. Braddon, Mary E . .

Davy’s motto. See Davy’s school days.

Davy’s school days. {Anon.)

Days with great authors. Jerrold, W: Blanchard.

De la d^mocratie en Amerique. Tocqueville, A. C: H:
C. de.

Dear experience. Ruffini, G.

Delicate ground. Edwardes, Annie.

Democracy in America. Tocqueville, A. C: H; C. de.
Description of the part of Devonshire bordering on the
Tamar and the Tavy. Bray, Anna E.

Devoted bride. The. Tucker, St. G.

Diagnosis and treatment of the varieties of dyspepsia.
Fox, W.

Diana of Meridor. (La dame de Monsoreau.) Dumas,

A. D.

Diary, The, of a woman. Feuillet, O.

Diseases of the stomach. Fox, W.

Do I love her? Benedict, F. L.

Doctor Basilius. (L’ile de feu.) Dumas, A. D.

Dr. Ox. Verne, J.

Doing his best. Trowbridge, J; T.

Dolly. Burnett, Frances H.

Dorothea. Burnett, Frances H.

Dreams and realities in the life of a pastor and teacher.
Elliot, S: H.

Dred. Stowe, Harriet E.. Beecher.

Drifted together. Westmoreland, Maria J.

Drummer boy, The. Trowbridge, J: T.

Duchesse, La, de Nemours. Feval, P. H. C.

Dude, The. Bradley, E.

Earl’s heirs. The. Wood, Ella P.

Early history of the North-western states. Hall, B; F.
Early Italian poets. Rossetti, D. G.

Easy Nat. Slimson, A. L.

Edith’s mistake. Stabler, Jennie L.

Edmond Dantes. Dumas, A. D. (?)

Egypt under its Khedives. DeLeon, E.

Egyptian princess, An. Ebers, G: M.

Eine aegyptische Kdnigstochter. Ebers, G; M.

Ellen Dacre. Grosvenor, Afrs. H. S.

Elsa. Hillern, Wilhelmine von.

Emmanuel-Philibert. (Le page du due de Savoie.) Du-
mas, A. D.

Empty heart. The. Terhune, M.. Virginia.

Enchanted keys. {A?ion.)

Enchanted moccasins. The. Mathews, C.

English, The, at the North pole. Verne, J.

Englishman’s house. The. Richardson, C. J.

Epitaphs from Copp’s hill burial-ground. Bridgman, T:
Ernestine. Hillern, Wilhelmine von.

Esau Runswick. Macquoid, Katharine S.

Essays and reviews.

Estelle. Edwardes, Annie.

Every man his own doctor. Ayres, J. H.

Exposition, An, of the weakness and inefficiency of the
United States. Mercer, C: Fenno.

Facing the enemy. Headley, P. C.

Fadette. Sand, George.

Faithful lover, A. Macquoid, Katharine S.

Faithful to the end. Roe, A. S.

Fall, The, of the Crimea. Spencer, E.

Fallen pride. Soutlnvorth, Mrs.

False pride. See Two ways to wedlock.

Famous stories. See Good stories.

Fanchon the cricket. Sand, George.

Farragut, D. G. Life and naval career. Headley, P. C.
Fatal marriages. The. Cockton, H: ^

Faute, La, de I’abbe Mouret. Zola, E. _

Fedora. (Le drame de la Rue de la Paix.) Belot, A.
Feu-follet, Le. Cooper, J. Fenimore.

Fievre, La, de I’inconnu. Belot, A.

Fifty years ago. Willard, Clara A.

Fight it out on this line. Headley, P. C.

Fighting Phil. Headley, P. C.

P ille, La, du juif-errant. Feval, P. H. C.

Fire, The, of London. Fullerton, Lady.

Florence betrayed. Azeglio, Massimo.

For love and honor. Darrington-Deslonde, Maria.
Foregleams and foreshadows of immortality. Sears, E. H.
Foresters, The. (Catherine Blum.) Dumas, A. D.
Forged will. The. Bennett, E.

Fortune, La, des Rougon. Zola, E.

Forty-five guardsmen. Dumas, A. D.

Four sisters. The. Bremer, Frederika.

Four years of fighting. Coffin, C: C.

Fox, The, at home. Rooper, G.

Frank Manly. Trowbridge, J: T.

Frederick the great and his merchant. Mundt, Clara M.
Frere Tranquille. Feval, P. H. C.

Friend or lover. Fawcett, Millicent G.

Friends in fur. Stables, W. G.

Friends of Bohemia. Whitty, E: M.

Fi-om Pall Mall to the Punjaub. Gay, J. D.

From the clouds to the mountains. Verne, J.

From whence, what, where? Nichols, J. R.

Future life. Wood, G:

Gabriel Lambert. Dumas, A. D,

Gabrielle Andre. Baring-Gould, S.

Galama. Liefde, J. B. de.

Galley slave. The. (Gabriel Lambert.) Dumas, A. D.
Gates, The, wide open. Wood, G;

Gaule et France. Dumas, A. D.

Geier-Wally. Hillern, Wilhelmine von.

Geheimbiindler, Die. Maurer, L.

Gerald Barry. Fitzsimon, E. A.

Germaine. About, E. F. V.

Ghost stories. (Anon.)

Gilded clique. The. Gaboriau, E.

Gipsy’s prophecy. The. Southworth, Mrs.

Girl, The, in scarlet. (La fortune des Rougon.) Zola, E.
Giulio Malatesta. Trollope, T; Adolphus.

Give me thine heart. Roe, A. S.

Glass, The, of fashion. Social etiquette.

Globe encyclopaedia. See Students’ encyclopaedia.

Glory, The, of the house of Israel. Strauss, G. F. A.
Gliick auf. Buerstenbinder, E..

Good-for-nothing Polly. Farman, Ella.

Good luck. Buerstenbinder, E..

Good stories.

Good time coming. The. Hale, E: E.

Govinta Samanta. Day, Lai Behari.

Great North-west, The. Winser, H: J.

Griechische Gdtter- und Pleldengeschichten. Witt, C.
Growth, The, of a people. Lacombe, P.

Guerre, La, des femmes. (Nanon.) Dumas, A. D.
Guerre, La, de Nizam. Mdry, J.

Guerrilla chief. The. Grant, J.

Guide to accomplishments. (Anon.)

Gustav Adolf. Topelius, Z.

Habits, The, of good society, (Anon.)

Halcyon days. Flagg, W.

Half-brothers, The. (Le batard de MauHon.) Dumas,
A. D.

Hand-book, A, in outline of the political history of En-
gland. Acland, A. H. D., and Ransome, C.

Hand-book of English politics. Acland, A. H. D., and
Ransome, C.

Hand-book of popular quotations. See Carleton’s.
Hand-book of wood-engraving. Emerson, W: A.
Hansford. Tucker, St. G.

Harmony, The, of the Bible with science. Kinns, S:
Harland, Marion, pseudonym of M.. Virginia Terhune.
Harvest, A, of wild oats. Marryat, Florence.

Hassan Abdallah. See Enchanted keys.

He would be a gentleman. Lover, S:

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Hearf and hand. Reid, Mayne.

Heart to heart. Marryat, Florence.

Heavenward bound. Jones, Cornelia.

Heavenward led. Jones, Cornelia.

Hector Servadac. Verne, J.

Heiress, The, ot Sweetwater, by J. Thornton Randolph.
See Peterson, C;^ J.

Helen Gardner’s, wedding-day. Terhune, M.. Virginia.
HeRne. Zola, E.

Helen’s pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Strauss, G. F. A.
Helens Wallfahrt nach Jerusalem. Strauss, G. F. A.
Heniw St. John, gentleman. Cooke, J; Esten.

Her friend Laurence. Benedict, F. L.

Hero boy. The. Headley, P. C.

Hero Carthew. Parr, Louisa.

Heroes of the rebellion. Headley, P. C.

Hertha. Bremer, Fredrika.

Hickory hall. Southworth, Mrs.

Highlands, The, of Ethiopia. Harris, Str W. C.

Hints and helps for those who write [etc.]. Drew, B:

His idol. Kimball, R: B.

Histoire du plebiscite. Erckmann, E., and Chatrian, A.
Histoire d’une Parisienne. Feuillet, O.

Historical tales from the history of the Muslims in Spain.

Brabazon, Elizabeth J.

History, The, of a Parisienne. Feuillet, O.

History, The, of lawyers. Forsyth, W;

History of Roman Catholicism in North America. Mac-
Leoci, X.

History of the devotion to the blessed Virgin Mary in
North America. MacLeod, X.

History of the Oriental nations. Ritchie, L.

Holiday album for boys. Pratt, L. Maria.

Holiday album. The, for girls. Pratt, L. Maria.

Home, The, of God’s people. Gage, W: L.

Homme, L’, qui rit. Hugo, Victor M.

Horrors of Paris. (Les Mohicans de Paris). Dumas, A. D.
Hortensius. Forsyth, W:

House-building. Richardson, C. J.

Household encyclopasdia. See Carleton’s.

How could he help it? Roe, A. S.

How he did it. Dupuy, Eliza A.

How to rise in the world. Trowbridge, ]: T.

Hunter naturalist, The. Webber, C: W.
Hunting-grounds, The, of the great West. Dodge, R: I.
Husks. Terhune, M.. Virginia.

fie, L’, de feu. Dumas, A. D.

Imagination, The. MacDonald, G:

Impressions de voyage. Dumas, A. D.

Impressions of travel. Dumas, A. D.

In exitu Israel. Baring-Gould, S.

In my Indian garden. Robinson, P.

In the home of the presidents. Holloway, Laura C.
Indian fairy book. Mathews, C.

Inner life of Abraham Lincoln. Carpenter, F. B.

Iron hand. The. (Le batard de Mauleon.) Dumas, A. D.
Iron mask. (Le vicomte de Bragelonne. Second part.)
Dumas, A. D.

I’ve been thinking. Roe, A. S.
ack. Daudet, A.

ack Hazard and his fortunes. Trowbridge, J; T.
Jack-o’Lantern, The. Cooper, J. Fenimore.

James Montjoy. Roe, A. S.

Janet. Fawcett, Millicent G.

Janet Doncaster. Fawcett, Millicent G.

Jeanne. (Histoire d’une Parisienne.) Feuillet, O.
Jesuiten oder Freimaurer. Maurer, L.

John Chinaman. Dalton, W:

John Maribel. Darrington-Deslonde, Maria.

Johnny Ludlow. Wood, Ella P.

Joint venture, The. Fitzsimon, E; A.

Jolly summer, A. Stokes, F: A.

Joseph Balsamo. Dumas, A. D.

Journey to the North pole. Verne, J.

Just one day. Habberton, J;

Kabala, The. Pancoafet, S.

Kapitalismus und Socialismus. Schaeffle, A. E. F.

Kate Aylesford. Peterson, C: J.

Kate Duncan. Valentine, Mrs.

Kate O’Donoghue. Lever, C: J.

Khedive’s Egypt, The. DeLeon, E.

Kilcorran. Fetherstonhaugh, Mrs.

Kismet. Fletcher, Julia.

Kit Carson’s life and adventures. Peters, D. C.

Kleine Muck, Der. Hauff, W.

Knaves and fools. Whitty, E: M.

Ladies’ and gentlemen’s etiquette book. See Habits, The,
of good society.

Ladies, The, ot the White Hoiise. Holloway, Laura C.
Ladies’ paradise. The. Zola, E.

Lady Adelaide’s oath. Wood, Ella P.

Lady Edith. May, T. P.

Lady Greensatin and her maid Rosette. (La marquise
de" Satin-vert.) Martineau des Chesnez, Madame.
Laicus. Abbott, L.

Land, The, of sacred mystery. Gage, W: L.

Landhaus, Das, am Rhein. Auerbach, B.

Land-owner’s manual. The. Hall, B; F.

Lavinia. Carlen, E. F. S.

Layman’s story, A. Abbott, L.

Led astray; or, “ La petite comtesse.” Feuillet, O.

Left to herself. Stabler, Jennie L.

Letters everywhere. {Anon.)

Life, The, and adventures of Kit Carson. Peters, D. C.
Life in America. Simms, W: G.

Lights and shadows of a pastor’s life. Elliot, S: H.

Like father, like son. Payn, J.

Lil, fair, fair. Fetherstonhaugh, Mrs.

Literary bye-hours. Japp, A. H.

Little Barefoot, The. Auerbach, B.

Little countess. The. Feuillet, O.

Little cyclopzedia of common things. Champlin,J: D.
Little duke, The. Yonge, C.. M.

Little Fadetle. Sand, George.

Little Mook. Hauff, W.

Little St. Jude's. See Cruel secret, A.

Little women. Alcott, Louisa M.

Little women wedded. Alcott, Louisa M.

Lives and deeds of our self-made men. Stowe, Harriet
E.. Beecher.

Log, The, of the Fortuna. Lindley, A. F.

Longnose the dwarf. (Der kleine Muck.) Hauff, W.
Lord Oakburn’s daughters. Wood, Ella P.

Lost casket. The. (La main coupee.) Du Boisgobey, F.
Lost Lenore. Reid, Mayne.

Louise La Valliere. (Le vicomte de Bragelonne. Third
part.) Dumas, A. D.

Love and jealousy. Trollope, Frances.

Love and liberty. Dumas, A. D. (?)

Love after marriage. Hentz, Caroline Lee.

Love and marriage. Saunders, F:

Love spell, A. Reid, Mayne.

Love’s vengeance. Reid, Mayne.

Lucius Davoren. Braddon, Mary E..

Lucy Hardinge. Cooper, J. Fenimore.

M. or N. Melville, G: J; Whyte.

Mad love, A. (La conquete de Plassans.) Zola, E.
Madame. Benedict, F. L.

Maidenhood. Valentine, Mrs.

Main, La, coupee. Du Boisgobey, F.

Maison, La, de glace. Dumas, A. D.

Man in black. The. James, G. P. R.

Man, The, of the world. North, W:

Man, The, who laughs. Hugo, Victor M.

Man-eaters, The. Reid, Mayne.

Manse of Sunnyside. Phelps, Mrs. E..S.

Manual of power for machines. Webber, S:

Many thoughts of many minds. See Carleton’s hand-book
of popular quotations.

Marble faun. The. Hawthorne, N.

Margaret Moncrieffe. Burdett, C:

Margaret of Navarre. (La reine Margot.) Dumas, A. D.
Marguerite de Valois. (La reine Margot.) Dumas, A. D.
Markets, The, of Paris. (Le ventre de Paris.) Zola, E.
Maroon, The. Reid, Mayne.

Marquise and Rosette. Martineau des Chesnez, Madame.
Marquise, La, de Satin-vert. Martineau des Chesnez,
Madame.

Marriage at a venture. Gaboriau, E.

Marriage verdict. The. (Sylvandire.) Dumas, A. D.
Mary Evans. Thompson, Clara M.

Matchless mystery. The. Spurgeop, C: H.

Matchmaker, The. Sheppard, E.. S.

Maud or Nina. Melville, G; J: Whyte.

May Horton. Grosvenor, Mrs. H. S.

Meditations on dfiath and eternity. Zschokke, J; Hein-
rich Daniel.

Meditations on life and its religious duties. Zschokke,
J: Heinrich Daniel.

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Meditiitions on life, death, and eternity. Zschokke, J;
Heinrich Daniel.

Meeting- her fate. Braddon, Mary E..

Memoires d’un mddecin. Dumas, A. D.

Memorials of the dead in Boston. Bridgman, T;
Memoirs of a physician. Dumas, A. D.

Memoirs of Archy Moore. Hildreth, R.

Men are what women make them. (Le drame de la Rue
de la Paix.) Bclot, A.

Men of our times. Stowe, Harriet E.. Beecher.
Merchant, The, of Berlin. Mundt, Clara M.

Meridiana. (Les aventures de trois Russes et de trois
Anglais.) Verne, J.

Miles Wallingford. Cooper, J. Fenimore.

Miller, The, ofSilcott mill. Darrington-Deslonde, Maria.
Miller’s, A, story of the war. (Histoire du plebiscite.)

Erckmann, 7^., and Chatrian, A.

Milly Darrell. Braddon, Mary E..

Mineral resources [etc.]. Raymond, R. W.

Mines and mining of the Rocky Mountains. Raymond,
R. W.

Mines, mills, and furnaces of the Pacific States. Raymond,

R. W.

Mines, The, of the West. Raymond, R. W.

Mining industry [etc.]. Raymond, R. W.

Miramichi. Savage, Afrs. W. T.

Miriam’s memoirs. Warfield, Catharine A.

Missing ship, The. Kingston, W; H. G.

Mrs. Isaacs. Farjeon, B; L.

Mrs. Mayburn’s twins. Habberton, J:

Model merchant. The. (Ation.)

Modern chromatics. Rood, O. N.

Modern classics See Atlantic tales.

Modern languages. Thimm, F.

Mohicans of Paris. Dumas, A. D.

Monsieur de Camors. Feuillet, O.

Monsieur, Madame and the baby. Droz, G.

Moses and geology. Kinns, S:

Motherless. Witt, Henriette de.

Mountain, lake, and river. (Aftofi.)

Muehlhach, Louisa, pseudonym of Clara M. Mundt.
Mummies and moslems. Warner, C; D.

My brother Jack. (Le petit chose, histoii'e d’un enfant.)
Daudet, A.

My first season. Sheppard, E..S.

My heart’s content. Darrington-Deslonde, M.

My winter on the Nile. Warner, C: D. ^

Mysteries, The, of the court of Louis Napoleon. Zola, E.
Mysteries of crime. (Anon.)

Mystery, The. Wood, Ella P.

Myths of Hellas. Witt, C.

Nannn. Dumas, A. D.

Nemesis. Zola, E.

Neutempler und Rosenkreuzer. Maurer, L.

New England boys. Stimson, A. L.

New home, A. Kirkland, Caroline M.

New Yorker, A, in the foreign office. Wikoff, H:

Niccolb dei Lapi. Azeglio, Massimo.

Nile novel, A. Fletcher, Julia.

Nina Gordon. Stowe, Harriet E .. Beecher.

No surrender. Buerstenhinder, E..

Noah’s ark. Robinson, P.

Noble aims. Tuthill, L.. C.

Noble deeds of our forefathers. Watson, H: C.

Noblesse oblige. Roberts, Margai;et.

Not “ A fool’s errand.” Ingraham, J. H.

Obeying the call. Alden, Isabella M.

Odd people. Reid, Mayne.

Oddest of courtships. The. De Forest, J: W.
O’Donoghue, The. Lever, C; J.

Old bell. The, of independence. Watson, H; C.

Old Fort Duquesne. MacKnight, C;

Old Salamander. Headley, P. C.

Old Stars. Headley, P. C.

Old woman. The, who lived in a shoe. Douglas, A. M.
Oldtown fireside stories. Stowe, Harriet E .. Beecher.

On the choice of books. Carlyle, T;

Once and forever. Gjant, Maria M.

One hundred choice selections. See Speaker’s garland.
One thousand and one days. See Enchanted keys.

One year. Carlen, E. F. S.

Only a girl. Hillern, Wilhelmine von.

Only caprice. (La guerre de Nizam.) Mery, J.

Ordeal, The, for wives. Edwardes, Annie.

Oriental and sacred scenes. Howe, F.

Ornithology and oology of N. England. Samuels, E; A*
Orphan’s, trials. The. Bennett, E.

Orts. MacDonald, G:

Our new crusade. Hale", E: E.

Our new home in the west. Kirkland, Caroline M.

Our northern and eastern birds. Samuels, E; A.

Our young folks, 1871. See Boys and girls’ miscellany.
Out of the deep. Wood, Ella P.

Ouzel galley. Kingston, W; H. G.

Page, H. A., pseudonym of Alexander H. Japp.

Page, Le, du due de Savoie. Dumas, A. D.

Page, Une, d’amour. Zola, E.

Pansy, pseudonym of Isabella M. Alden.

Paragreens, The. Ruffini, G.

Parisian family, A. Witt, Henriette de.

Parisian romance, A. (Histoire d’une Parisienne.)
P'euillet, O.

Parisian sultana. The. Belot, A.

Parkwater. Wood, Ella P.

Patriot boy. The. Headley, P. C.

Paul Jones, the son of the sea. (Le capitaine Paul.) Du
mas, A. D.

Pauline. Dumas, A. D.

Pens and types. Drew, B:

People, The, of Turkey. (Anon.)

Petit chose, Le. Daudet, A.

Petite comtesse. La. Feuillet, O.

Petite Fadette, La. Sand, George.

Petite histoire du peuple frangais. Lacombe, P.

Phil and his friends. Trowbridge, J: T.

Philip Farlow and his friends. Trowbridge, J: T.

Picture preacher. The. Barber, J; W.

Picturesque designs for mansions. Richardson, C. J.
Pioneer life. Peters, D. C.

Plains, The, of the great West. Dodge, R; I.

Plebiscite, The. Erckmann, fi., and Chatrian, A.

Poetry for home and school. Brackett, Anna C., and
Eliot, Ida M.

Political economy. Elements of. Thompson, R. E.

Polly. Farman,Ella.

Popery exposed. Petrucelli della Gattina, F.

Practical instruction in the art of wood engraving.
Emerson, W: A.

Prescotts, The, of Pamphillon. Parr, Louisa,

Prince, A, of Breffny. May, T, P.

Prince, The, of darkness, Southworth, Mrs.

Prince of Wales, The, in India. Gay, J. D.

Probus. Ware, W.

.Progress, The, of democracy. (Gaule et France.) Du-
mas, A. D.

Prophet, The, of the Caucasus, Spencer, E.

Publicans and sinners. Braddon, Mayy E..

Pupil, The, of the legion of honor. Enault, L.

Quadroon, The. Reid, Mayne.

(Quaker partisans. The. Williamson, E. H.
Quarante-cinq, Les. Dumas, A. D.

Recent inquiries in theology. See Essays and reviews.
Record of a school. Peabody, Elizabeth P.

Record of Mr. Alcott’s school. Peabody, Elizabeth P.
Rector’s wife. The. Stretton, Julia C.

Rectory, The, of Moreland. Thompson, Clara M.

Reine Margot, La, Dumas, A. D.

Reine Margot, La, et le mousquetaire. F^val, P. H. C.
Republic, The, of the United States. Tocqueville, A. C:
H; C. de.

Revenge. James, G. P. R.

Reynolds, Beatrice, pseudonym of E.. Sara Sheppard.
Richard the fearless. Yonge, C.. M.

Right at last, Davidson, Harriet M.

Rival belles. The. Jones, J. B.

Riven bonds. Buerstenhinder, E..

Robert Ainsleigh. Braddon, Mary E ..

Romance, The, of Beausincourt. Warfield, Catharine A.
Romance of natural history. Webber, C: W.

Romance of student life abroad. Kimball, R; B.
Romance, The, of war. Grant, J, '

Rome and the papacy. Petrucelli della Gattina, F.
Rosemary. Fullerton, Lady.

Rougon-Macquart family, (La fortune des Rougon.)
Round, The, of wrong. About, E. F. V.

Royal gentleman, A. Tourgee, A. W.

Royal road to happiness. Barber, J: W.

Run to earth. Braddon, Mary E . .

Russian gipsy. (La maison de glace.) Dumas, A. D.

WHITNET.

St. Jude’s assistant. See Cruel secret, A.

Salvator. (Les Mohicans cle Paris. Continuation.) Du-
mas, A. D.

Sam Lawson’s Oldtown fireside stories. Stowe, Harriet
E.. Beecher.

School days at Rugby. Hughes, T;

Scrambles amongst the Alps. Whymper, E.

Sealed packet. The. Trollope, T: Adolphus.
Self-condemned. Hunt, Airs. Alfred W.

Sensible etiquette. See Habits, The, of good society.
Severed hand. The. DuBoisgobey, F.

Sheridan, P. H. Life and military career. Headley, P. C.
Sherman, W; T. Life and military career. Headley, P. C.
Short history. A, of the French people. Lacombe, P.
Silver and gold [etc.]. Raymond, R. W.

Silver treasury, The, of poetry for home and school.

Brackett, Anna C., and Eliot, Ida M.

Simon Martin. Grosvenor, Airs. H. S.

Singular creatures. Cupples, Ann J.

Sisters, The. Cockton, H;

Six months at the White House. Carpenter, F. B.

Six years later. (L’ange Pitou.) Dumas, A. D.

Slave, The. Hildi-eth, R.

Slave, The, of the lamp. North, W;

So dear a dream. Grant, Maria M.

Social etiquette and home culture. {Anon.)

Social science. Thompson, R. E.

Socialism. Schaeffle, A. E. F.

Solomon Isaacs. Farjeon, B: L.

Sommers, Jane R., pseudonym of Cornelia Jones.

Sorry her lot who loves too well. Grant, Maria M.
Sowing and reaping. Donelan, A. M.

Spanglers and Tingles, The. Jones, J. B.

Speaker’s garland. The. {A7ion.)

Sphinx, The. (La petite comtesse.) Feuillet, O.

Squire Trevlyn’s heir. Wood, Ella P.

Statistics of mines [etc.]. Raymond, R. W.

Stories of adventures. Verne, J.

Stories of the lives of noble women. Adams, W; H; D.
Story, The, of a bad boy. Aldrich, T;, B.

Story of the plebiscite. Erckmann, E., and Chatrian, A.
Students abroad. Kimball, R: B.

Students’ encyclopaedia. {Anon.)

Students’ text-book of color. Rood, O. N.

Success, and how he won it. Buerstenbinder, E..
Successful merchant. The. See Model merchant.

Sultane parisienne. La. Belot, A.

Sunny side. The. Phelps, Airs. E .. S.

Sunny South, The. Ingraham, J. H.

Sunshine, The, of domestic life. Adams, W: H: D.
Surgeon’s stories. The. Topelius, Z.

Sweetheart and wife. See All for him.

Sword, The, and the distaff. Simms, W; G.

Sylvandire. Dumas, A. D.

Systematic and economic botany. Balfour, J: H.

Taking the Bastile. (L’ange Pitou.) Dumas, A. D.
Tales and sketches. Rooper, G.

Tales from Spanish history. Brabazon, Elizabeth J. ,
Tales from the operas. Pardon, G. F.

Tales of Algeria. (Le veloce.) Dumas, A. D.

Tappy’s chicks. Cupples, Ann J.

Ten years in Wall street. Fowler, W: W.

Terrible confession, A. (La confession de Claude.)
Zola,

Tests of power. W^ebber,^ S:

Therese Raquin. Zola, E.

There’s no place like home. Douglas, Amanda M.
Thirst, The, for the unknown. Belot, A.

Three guardsmen. The. Dumas, A. D.

Three musketeers, The. Dumas, A. D,

Through thick and thin. (La guerre de Nizam.)
Mery, J.

To the sun. Verne, J.

Tobacco. Alcott, W: A.

To-day. Kimball, R; B.

To-day in New York. Kimball, R: B.

Toinette. Tourgee, A. W.

Told in the twilight. Wood, Ella P.

Tom Bailey’s adventures. Aldrich, T.- B.

Tom Brown’s school days. Hughes, T:

Tour of the world in eighty days. Verne, J.
Transformation. Hawthorne, N.

Travels in Egypt. Warburton, E. B. G.

Treasure trove. Lover, S:

Trevlyn Hood. Wood, Ella P.

Trois mousquetaires, Les. Dumas, A. D.

True to the last. Roe, A. S.

Turkey, Greece, and Palestine, in 1883. Howe, F.
Twenty years of inside life in Wall street. P'owler, W;
W.

Twenty years’ residence among the people of Turkey.
See People, 'I'he, of Turkey.

Twin lieutenants. The. (Le capitaine Richard.) Dumas,
A. D.

Two by tricks. Yates, E.

Two sisters. The. Southvvorth, Mrs.

Two ways to matrimony. See Two ways to wedlock.

Two ways to wedlock. {Anon.)

Urn hohen Preis. Buerstenbinder, E ..

Under a charm. Buerstenbinder, E ..

Under the punkah. Robinson, P.

Under the rose. Wood, Ella P.

Under the sun. Robinson, P.

Underground city. Verne, J.

Une page d’amour. Zola, E.

Use, The, of tobacco. Alcott, W; A.

Vagabondia. Burnett, Frances H.

Valley, The, of a hundred fires. Stretton, Julia C.

Value, The, of Fostertown. Donelan, A. M.

Vegetable anatomy and physiology. Balfour, J: H.
Veloce, Le. Dumas, A. D.

Ventre, Le, de Paris. Zola, E.

Venus noire. La. Belot, A.

Verdant Green. Bradley, E.

Vers de societe. Japp, A. H.

Vicomte de Bragelonne. Dumas, A. D.

Vicomte Paul, Le. Feval, P. H. C.

Victim of excitement. The. Hentz, Caroline Lee.

Victor Lescar. Grant, Maria M.

Villa Eden. Auerbach, B.

Villa on the Rhine. Auerbach, B.

Vineta. Buerstenbinder, E ..

Vineta, the phantom city. Buerstenbinder, E..

Virginia and Magdalene. Southworth, Airs.

Voyages and adventures of Captain Hatteras. (Les An-
glais au pole nord.)

Vulture maiden. The. Hillern, W^ilhelmine von.

Wages of sin. Yates, E.

Was he guilty.? Dupuy, Eliza A.

Was he successful? Kimball, R; B.

Weakness, The, and inefficiency of the United States.
Mercer, C: F.

Wept of Wish-ton-wish. Cooper, J. Fenimore.

AVerner, E., pseudonym of E.. Buerstenbinder.

Western farmer’s new and universal hand-book. {Anon.)
Whence, what, where? Nichols, J. R.

Where is it? See Who wrote it?

White slave. The. Hildreth, R.

Who won at last? Trowbridge, J; T.

Who wrote it? {Anon.)

Wi^vam and cabin. Simms, W: G.

Wild oats. Marryat, Florence.

Wiltoti of Cuthberts. Adams, H: C.

AA'^ing-and-Wing. Cooper, J. Fenimore.

Winthrop family. The. Willard, Clara A.

Wolf boy. The, of China. Dalton, W;

Woman’s heart, A. (Une page d’amour.) Zola, E.
Woman’s journal, A. Feuillet, O.

Woman’s requital, A. Benedict, F. L.

Woman of honor. The. Enault, L.

AVoodcraft. Simms, W: G.

Wood engraving, Handbook of. Emerson, W; A.

Wood engraving. Practical instruction in. Emerson, W: A.
Woods, The, and by-ways of New England. Flagg, W.
Woodville, Jennie, pseudonym of Jennie L. Stabler.
World, The, at home. Kirby, Mary and Elizabeth.
AVorld, The, by the fireside. Kirby, Mary and Elizabeth.

Year, A, among the trees. Flagg, W.

Year, A, with the birds. Flagg, W.

Young chevalier. The. (Sylvandire.) Duflias, A. D.
Young countess. The. Trollope, Frances.

Young folks’ catechism of common things. Chainplin, J;
D.,jr.

Young folks’ cyclopaedia of common things. Champlin, ■
J; D.,jr.

Young folks’ rhymes and stories. See Letters every-
where.

Zola’s court of Napoleon III. Zola, E.

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SUPPLEMENTS TO POOLE’S INDEX.

BY W. F. POOLE, LIBRARIAN OF CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY.

Before making my report on the plans
which are in process of execution for keep-
ing up “The Index to Periodical Literature”
by means of supplements issued at stated
periods, I desire in behalf of myself and Mr.
Fletcher, at this first opportunity we have of
meeting the members of this Association, to
express our cordial thanks for the sympathy
and cheerful cooperation you gave us in bring-
ing that great undertaking to a prompt and
successful completion. The kind and approv-
ing words concerning our work which you have
expressed to us by letter, and orally since we
have come together, are especially gratifying,
as it is the commendation of experts who know
what such a work should be, and the labor and
difficulties which are involved in it. In the
supplements which we are proposing to issue it
will be our endeavor to merit the continuance
of your sympathy and cooperation.

In the Library journal for January last we
proposed, in addition to the five-year supple-
ments promised in the preface of the index, to
issue in April, 1884, a supplement covering the
years 1882 and 1883, and thereafter annual
indexes, which are to be condensed in the next
five-year supplement. In the Library journal
for March last, Mr. Fletcher brought out the
first number of his Monthly cooperative index^
and, through the liberality of Mr. Leypoldt, the
publisher, the issues have been continued to the
present time. These will be used as a part of
the material for the annual indexes. It would
seem that with these various forms of issue
nothing further was needed to satisfy every
one. •

The scheme which we proposed of issuing
annual indexes has been very generally ap-
proved and responded to by the members of
this Association. Indeed, we have had more

offers of help than we can accept, unless the
contributors bring with them the titles of new
serials which they propose to index. My
present purpose is to report what has been
done in carrying out this plan, to present the
list of serials which are to be indexed, and also
the allotment which has been made of the
work. The list of serials, all of which have
been assigned, numbers 103 titles, and 425
volumes ; 33 of the titles (which are designated
by a star) are new publications, or were omitted
in the main work. The contributors are 34 in
number. Among them the names of some
of the most zealous of our former contributors
do not appear, and for the reason that the
allotments were all made before they applied
for a share. The list is not offered as a finality,
but with the expectation that we shall receive
suggestions towards its enlargement, and pro-
posals from our former contributors, whose
names we miss, to index other serials. I hope
no one will think that I have been greedy in
taking so many of the serials as my share of
the labor. I must confess that I like this sort
of work, and I took, about a month ago, what
others had left after they had made their selec-
tions. In a few instances where I did not
have a periodical I readily placed it with the
librarian who had it, and to whom it is credited.

No publisher would be likely to assume, at
his own risk, the expense of publishing the
annual indexes. The plan of meeting the ex-
pense of publication is this : The editors and
contributors will make no charge for their work.
The expense, therefore, will be only the cost of
composition, press-work, paper, and binding.
No more copies will be printed than will supply
the contributors and the copies subscribed for
in advance of publication. No copies will,
therefore, be put into the trade. Subscription

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circulars will be sent to librarians and to indi-
viduals who would be likely to desire the work.
In case the subscribers are twice as many as
the contributors, the subscribers will pay the
whole cost of the edition. It is now ascertained
that the subscribers will many times outnumber
the contributors, and hence the contributors
will receive their copies free. The actual price
per copy will not be known until the work is
ready for distribution. As the edition will be
limited, and copies will be rare, it will be safe
to subscribe for more than a single copy.

The five-year issues, which will be regarded
as the permanent supplements to the main
work, will be printed in a style uniform in all
respects with that work ; whereas the annual
supplements, being regarded as temporary, will
be issued on a smaller page. On the fifth year,
when the permanent supplements are issued,
no annual supplement will appear, as the ref-
erences of the preceding year will be included
in the former work.

The same rules for indexing will be observed
in the supplements as in the main work. Those
rules may be found in the Library journal
(i : 286, 324,), and in the “ Proceedings of the
London Conference,” 1877, p. 199. In the
matter of headings, as well as in all cases of
doubt, it will be well to make frequent reference
to the main work. I beg to emphasize a few
minor points, the observance of which will
secure the benediction of the editors : Use
foolscap paper (ruled with lines about one cen-
timeter apart, or five lines in two inches) , and
bring the reference into one line. Write in a

neat and compact hand on every Ime, — not on
every other line, — and so that the manuscript
may be cut apart without injury. Write proper
names correctly and very legibly ; make figures
which cannot be questioned, and place the
colon after the volume-figures, which distin-
guishes them from the page-figures. Abbreviate
the title of the serial accurately and uniformly ;
and, as a convenience, insert it with a hand-
stamp instead of writing it. When the names
of persons are used in the headings, give at
least the first Christian name in full, and not
simply the initial. Don’t try to invent a new
mode of indexing; but follow ours, even if you
have a better system of your own. It is a
singular fact that the manuscripts of some ex-
perienced cataloguers have given us the most
trouble, because they followed their own ideas
instead of ours. It was evident, in some in-
stances, that they did not take the trouble to
ascertain what ours were.

In now laying before you our lists, I desire
to say that we shall be glad to receive any sug-
gestions here, or correspondence hereafter,
towards enlarging them, and taking in other
contributors. In the case of serials which are
now for the first time included, the first issue of
the annual indexes will include references only
to the volumes for 1882 and 1883. The earlier
volumes will be indexed in the first five-year
supplement. It will be understood, when no
date is given after the title, that the contribu-
tor indexes the set, or the volumes needed to
complete it.

PERIODICALS TO BE INDEXED IN THE ANNUAL AND FIVE-YEAR SUPPLEMENTS -

The ['*'] indicates that tlie serial was not included in the edition of 1SS2.

♦Academy.

All the Year Round.
♦American, The.

♦American Antiquarian.
American Architect.
American Catholic Quarterly.
American Church Review.
American Journal of Science.

American Law Review.
American Naturalist.
Anthropological Journal.
♦Antiquary, n. s.

Argosy.

Art Journal.

♦Athenaeum.

Atlantic Monthly.

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Banker’s Magazine (Lond,)*

Banker’s Magazine (N.Y.).

Belgravia.

*Bibliographer.

Bibliotheca Sacra.

Blackwood’s Magazine.

*British & k'oreign Evangelical Review.
♦British Almanac Companion.

British Quarterly Review.

Catholic World.

♦Century, The.

Chambers’s Journal.

♦Church Quarterly Review.
Congregationalist .

Contemporary Review.

Cornhill Magazine.

♦Critic, The.

Dial, The (Chicago).

Dublin Review.

Eclectic Engineering.

Edinburgh Review.

Education.

Eclectic Magazine.

♦Field Naturalist.

Fortnightly Review.

♦Foster’s Monthly Reference Lists.
Gentleman’s Magazine, n. s.

Good Words.

♦Granite Monthly.

Harper’s Magazine.

International Review.

Irish Monthly.

♦Iron and Steel Institute Journal.
♦Journal of Christian Philosophy.
Journal of the Franklin Institute.
Journal of Speculative Philosophy.
Journal of the Statistical Society.
♦Kansas City Review.

♦Knowledge.

♦Leisure Hour.

Library Journal.

Lippincott.’s Magazine.

♦Literary World (Lond.).

♦Literary World (Boston).

Living Age.

London Quarterly Review.

London Society.

♦Longman’s Magazine.

Lutheran Quarterly.

Macmillan’s Magazine.

Magazine of American History.

♦Manhattan, The.

Methodist Quarterly Review.

Mind.

Modern Review.

Month, The.

♦Monthly Notes of the L.A U.K.

Nation.

♦National Review, n. s.

Nature.

New England Historic-Genealogical Register.

New Englander. •

Nineteenth Century.

North American Review.

♦Overland Monthly, n. s.

Pennsylvania Magazine.

Popular Science Monthly.

Portfolio.

Potter’s American Monthly (to Sept., 1882, since
dead).

Presbyterian Review.

Princeton Review, n. s.

Quarterly Review.

Reformed Quarterly Review.

Reliquary.

♦Saturday Review.

♦Science;

♦Scottish Review.

♦Sidereal -Messenger.

Southern Historical Society Papers.

♦Spectator, The.

♦Sunday Magazine.

Temple Bar.

Tinsley’s Magazine.

♦United Service Magazine.

Unitarian Review.

Universalis! Quarterly.

Westminster Review.

CONTRIBUTORS TO THE FIRST SUPPLEMENT.

Axon, Wm. E. A. Manchester, England.
♦British Almanac Companion.

♦Field Naturalist.

♦Sunday Magazine.

Barbour, J. H. Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.
♦Church Quarterly Reviea^

Edinburgh Review, 18^.

Quarterly Review, 1883.

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Biscoe, W. S. Columbia College, New York.
♦Century, 1883.

Cowell, Peter, Free Library, Liverpool, England.
♦British and Foreign Evangelical Keview.

Cutter, C. A. Boston Athenaeum, Boston, Mass.
British Quarterly Review.

Westminster Review.

Crunden, F. M. Public School Library, St. Louis,
♦Literary World.

Edmands, John. Mercantile Library, Philadel-
phia, Pa.

Banker’s Magazine, New York.

Fletcher, W. I. Amherst College, Amherst,
Mass.

American Church^Review,

American Journal of Science.

Atlantic Monthly, 1882.

Bibliotheca Sacra.

♦Century, 1882,

Contemporary Review, 1882.

♦Critic, The.

Dublin Review, 1882.

Edinburgh Reviev^, 1882.

Education,

Fortnightly Review, 1882.

Harper’s Magazine, 1882.

International Revien^ 1882.

Journal of the Franklin Institute.

Library Journal.

Living Age, 1882.

Macmillan’s Magazine, 1882.

New Englander, 1882.

Nineteenth Century, 1882.

North American Review, 1882.

Popular Science Monthly, 1882.

Quarterly Review.

Foster, W, E, Public Library, Providence, R.I.
International Review, 1883.

Magazine of American History.

N.E. Historical and Genealogical Register.

Green, S. S. Public Library, Worcester, Mass.
Popular Science Monthly, 1883.

Harris, Geo. W. Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
♦Bibliographer.

♦Scottish Review.

Harbaugh, Miss Mary C. State Library, Colum-
bus, Ohio.

♦Antiquary.

Hasbrouck, I. E. Rutgers College, New Bruns-
wick, N.J.

Nature.

Hewins, Miss C. M. Hartford Library, Hartford,
Conn.

Lippincott’s Magazine.

♦Longman’s Magazine.

James, Miss H. P. Public Library, Newton, Mass.
Catholic World.

Kiernan, T. J. Harvard University, Cambridge,
Mass.

Universalist Quarterly.

Larned, J. a. Young Men’s Association, Buffalo,
N.Y.

Macmillan’s Magazine, 1883.

Linderfelt, K. a. Public Library, Milwaukee,
Wis.

Atlantic Monthly, 1883.

Fortnightly Review, 1883.

Merrill, E.T. Wesleyan University, Middletown,
Conn.

♦Athenaeum.

Nelson, C. A. Astor Library, New York City.
Chambers’ Journal.

Eclectic Engineering Magazine.

♦Knowledge.

♦Overland Monthly, 11. s.

♦United Service Magazine.

Neuhaus, Paul. Library of Congress, Washington,

D.C.

Reliquary.

Noyes, S. B. Brooklyn Library, Brooklyn, N.Y.
♦National Review, n. s.

Temple Bar.

Poole, W. F. Public Library, Chicago, 111.

All the Year Round.

♦American, The.

♦American Antiquarian.

American Catholic Quarterly.

American Law Review.

American Naturalist.

Argosy.

Banker’s Magazine, London.

Belgravia.

Colburn’s New Monthly Magazine.
Congregationalist.

Dial, Chicago.

Eclectic Magazine.

♦Foster’s Monthly Reference Lists.

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Poole, W. F., continued.

Gentleman’s Magazine, n. s.

Good Words.

*Granite Mohthly.

Irish Monthly.

♦Iron and Sfeel Institute Journal.

♦Journal of Christian Philosophy.

Journal of Speculative Philosophy.

Journal of thfe Statistical Society.

♦Kansas City Review.

♦Leisure Hour.

London Quarterly Review.

London Society.

Lutheran Quarterly Review.

♦Manhattan, The.

Methodist Quarterly Review.

Mind.

Modern Review.

Month, The.

♦Monthly Notes of the L.A.U.K.

Pennsylvania Magazine.

Potter’s American Monthly.

Presbyterian Review.

Reformed Quarterly Review.

♦Sidereal Messenger.

Southern Historical Society Papers.

Tinsley’s Magazine.

Unitarian Review.

Richardson, E. C. Hosmer Hall, Hartford.
Conn.

Contemporary Review, 1883.

Dublin RevievA^, 1883.

New Englander, 1883.

Nineteenth Century, 1883.

Rogers, T. P. W. Pletcher Library, Burlington,
Vt.

Cornhill.

Portfolio.

Rowell, J. C. University of California, Berkeley,
Cal.

♦Saturday Review.

♦Spectator.

Safford, T. H. Williams College, Williamstown,
Mass.

North American Review, 1883.

Princeton Review, n. s.

Sargent, Miss M. E. Middlesex Mechanics’ Inst.,
Lowell, Mass.

Blackwood’s Magazine.

Sickley, J. C. Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Living Age, 1883.

Staebner, F. W. Normal School, Westfield, Mass.
♦Science.

Stetson, W. K. Wesleyan University, Middle-
town, Conn.

Nation, The.

SoLDAN, F. J. Public Library, Peoria, 111.
American Architect.

Art Journal.

Stevens, Miss Lucy. Public Library, Toledo, O.

Harper’s Magazine, 1883.

Taylor, Achilles. London, England.

♦Academy.

♦Literary World.

Uhler, P. H. Peabody Institute, Baltimore, Md.
Anthropological Journal.

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LIBRARIES IN WASHINGTON.

BY DR. J. BILLINGS, U.S.A., LIBRARIAN OF THE SURGEON-GENERAL’s OFFICE.

I AM very sorry that both Mr. Flint and Mr.

Spofford are absent, as I had hoped to hear
from them a discussion upon the relations of the
various libraries in Washington to each other
and to the proposed National Library. In their
absence, however, I will endeavor to briefly
sketch the characteristics of some of these
libraries. They may be divided into three
classes. The first is the large general collection,
ordinarily known as the Library of Congress,
but which should more properly be called the
National Library ; the second comprises the li-
braries of the various departments, which are
in part devoted to special subjects, and in part
to general literature, mostly fiction, travels,
etc., for the benefit of the clerks and employes ;
the third class includes the libraries of some of
the bureaus, which are almost entirely scientific
and technological, and devoted to special sub-
jects. The library of the Department of State
has been greatly improved within the last few
years, and is now especially valuable for its col-
lection of works on international law. The li-
brary of the War Department has a fair collection
of works pertaining to military matters, but the
most complete library of this kind in this coun-
try is the one at West Point. A large part'of
the War Department library is composed of
general literature for the use of the clerks and
their families. The library of the Treasury
Department is also mainly for the benefit
of the clerks. The library of the Patent Office
is especially devoted to physics, chemistry and
technology.

There is a very good collection of works on
astronomy and the mathematical sciences at
the National Observatory, which has been cata-
logued under the direction of Prof. Holden.

The library of the Signal Service Office relates
mostly to meteorology, and in connection with
this a large and valuable bibliography of the
subject has been prepared by Prof. Abbe, which
it is hoped will soon be published. The
library of the Geological Survey is increasing
rapidly by exchanges and purchases, and is now

a very valuable collection, being comparatively
complete in reports and documents relating_ to
the geology of the United States. The library
of the Surgeon-General’s office, of the War
Department, is composed exclusively of works
relating to medicine and the allied sciences,
and now contains about sixty thousand volumes
and about seventy thousand pamphlets. An
interesting and important question is whether
all these special libraries should be merged in
one grand national library, or whether they
should be allowed to remain, as at present, in
connection with the several bureaus and depart-
ments. On the one hand there is a feeling that
this great country should have a correspond-
ingly magnificent national library building,
which should contain, as far as possible, every-
thing that has been published in all depart-
ments of literature, science, and art; and that
the quickest and easiest way to obtain this is to
gather all these special libraries into one build-
ing, which building should be so arranged as to
contain them and allow their future develop-
ment. On the other hand, it is considered by
the bureaus, and also by scientific men and
physicians generally throughout the country,
that it is better that these special libraries should
remain as they now are, and be allowed to
develop in their own way. I shall consider the
subject more especially in connection with the
medical library, that being the one with which
I am most familiar ; but I believe that my
remarks will apply also to other special sci-
entific and technological libraries. The follow-
ing is quoted, with some condensation, from
some remarks which I have recently had occa-
sion to make on this subject : —

“ From a comparison of the catalogue of
the medical library of the Surgeon-General’s
Office with the fasciculi of the catalogue printed
by the British Museum in 1881-2, I have
found that on 1,140 pages containing about
34,000 titles, exclusive of cross-references,
there were the titles of 657 books and 880 in-
augural theses relating to medicine. Taking

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the corresponding portions of the Washington
catalogue, it is found that the British Museum
has 262 medical books, 372 medical theses, and
1 18 different editions which are not in the
Washington library, while, on the other hand,
the Washington library has 285 books, 342
theses, and 88 different editions which are not
in the British Museum. There are common to
both libraries 277 books and 508 theses. The
two libraries, therefore, are nearly equal as re-
gards medical books, exclusive of medical jour-
nals, transactions, and reports, in which the
Washington library is much the richer.”

“ A similar comparison with the catalogue of
the medical section of the Bibliotheque Nation-
ale, in Paris, shows that the Washington library
contains a greater amount of medical literature,
and also covers a wider field, representing bet-
ter the medical literature of the world. Each
library is, as might be expected, richer than its
rivals in the literature of its own country ; but
the French Library is comparatively poor in
English and German, has almost nothing in
American medical literature, while the English
library is also poor in American literature, and
comparatively weak in German medicine of the
present century.”

“ The two great national libraries of London
and Paris are supposed to be the largest collec-
tions of printed books in existence. They have
been collected during a period of over three
hundred years, and have practically had almost
unlimited funds and opportunities.”

“ Why, then, is it that the medical library in
Washington, which is only about twenty years
old, and has never had, in any one year, funds
sufficient to purchase more than two-thirds of the
medical books printed in various parts of the
world during that same year, should already be
equal if not superior to them in practical value ? ”

“ I believe it to be very largely due to
the fact, that, while the Washington library is
the national collection, it has been kept sepa-
rate from the general national library. The
result of this has been that the medical profes-
sion has taken much more interest in it than they
would have done, if, as is the case with the
English and French medical collections, it had
been merely a section of the national library.”

As a matter of fact, comparatively little

use is made by medical writers of the collec-
tions in the British Museum or the Bibliotheque
Nationale. They consult, in preference, the
special medical libraries in London and Paris,
which are under the direction of medical bib-
liographers, such as the libraries of the Royal
College of Surgeons or of the Medico-Chirurgi-
cal Society, or those of the Faculty of Medicine,
or of the Academy of Medicine in Paris. It is
to such special libraries that physicians give
their books and pamphlets ; and the rapid
growth of the Washington library is largely
due to this cause. There is pouring into it a
steady stream of literature, the sources of
which are by no means confined to this country,
although^ of course, the largest part comes
from the United States.

So far as this medical library is concerned it
is quite certain that the physicians of this
country would greatly prefer to have it remain as
it now is, connected with the Medical Museum,
and under medical management, and would
strongly object to its being merged into a great
national collection, since, if this were done, they
would, to a great extent, lose their interest in
its progress and development. It may be
reckoned as the medical section of the National
Library, and the number of volumes which it
contains may be counted as forming part of the
national collection, and thus help to swell the
numbers given in the reports of the latter ; but
there seems to be no good reason why it
should be removed from the Museum, with
which it is especially connected, and placed in
the same building with the general collection.

The same may be said with regard to all the
special libraries connected with special techno-
logical work or with museums or collections.
Those who study in these museums or collec-
tions wish the corresponding library to be close
at hand, that they may pass rapidly from one
to the other. It is also probable that the best
results for all these special libraries will be pro-
duced by giving them a certain amount of in-
dependence and responsibility, in order that the
scientific men with whose pursuits they are spe-
cially connected shall take a working interest
in their condition and progress, and stimulate
those in charge of them to the best exertions of
which they are capable.

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REPORT ON LIBRARY ARCHITECTURE.

BY JOHN EDMANDS, LIBRARIAN OF THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA.

Perhaps I should offer an apology for
consenting to prepare this report, because
of the limited means at my command for
gathering information. As, however, apologies
have not been in favor in our meetings, I will
not incur the odium of setting the bad fashion.

I am not 'able to bring forward any new
discoveries or brilliant achievements in this
field during the year, unless the illustration of
“ How not to do it,” which our wise and patriotic
Congress has furnished in the national library
building, deserves to be placed in this category.
One of the chief things to be noted in con-
nection with the general subject is a deeper
and more wide-spread interest. The question
of the proper arrangement and construction of
buildings for public libraries is now occupying
the thoughts of a larger number of people than
ever before, and occupying them in a more
intense and practical way. This is due in part
to the circumstance that the building question
is now being wrestled with vigorously by at
least two libraries, in which a very deep interest
is felt outside of the communities in which they
are situated. People in all sections of the
country are anxious to be assured that our two
largest libraries are to be worthily housed.
With so many intelligent people carefully scru-
tinizing and offering suggestions, there is firm
ground for hope that those having the matter
immediately in charge will achieve a result that
shall embody the best thought of the time.

In September of last year a free public library
building, which had just been completed, was
opened to the public in Newcastle, England.
It seems to have been planned with a good deal
of care, and to embody some noteworthy features.
In the basement, facilities are provided for the
reception, unpacking, collating, and stamping
of the books. Here is also the heating appa-
ratus ; and, warned by the disastrous experiences
at Birmingham, special precautions have been
taken so that a fire occurring in this basement
would not be communicated to the other parts

of the building ; and, as an additional safeguard,
it has been arranged that the library staff shall
be regularly drilled in the fire-brigade practice.
The main entrance is by a vestibule 43 by 2 1
feet, which is described as spacious and lofty,
and, we may add, useless. On the left of the
vestibule is the lending-library, in two rooms,
having accommodations for at least 60,000
volumes. In a portion of this room the cases
are carried up to the height of 13 feet, but in
the most of the room to only 8 feet.

The librarian’s office is on this floor. It is
near the entrance, and has speaking-tubes to all
parts of the building. Special attention has
been given to ventilating. From each of the
clusters of gas-jets tubes are carried to the top
of the building, and the lights on the counters
are furnished with closed globes, on one side
of which is a tube admitting cold air, and the
other side one which carries the heated and foul
air to the outside. The windows are so con-
structed that they can be thrown fully open so
as to flush the rooms with fresh air, or closed
very tight with an arrangement for admitting
fresh air without creating a current. With
these precautions the air is pure, and the tem-
perature does not rise above 65° after the gas
has been lighted for several hours.

The reference-library, measuring 132 feet by
41 feet, is on the second floor, and the shelving
is carried to a height of only 8 feet. The ta-
bles in this room are covered with billiard-cloth.
They are provided with bells, each having a
different tone, so that the assistants will know
at once the particular table requiring attention.
If no one in that country reads an American
book, it is mentioned as worthy of note that an
American revolving bookcase has been pro-
vided for this library, in which may be placed
about 200 volumes for the convenient use of one
who may be investigating a particular subject.

The new building for the Birmingham library,
erected to replace the one destroyed by fire in
January, 1879, formally opened in June,

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1882. The cost has been met by the insurance
fund, with a small addition from the ordinary
income, and the sum of $75,000, which was
contributed soon after the fire, is still kept as a
library fund. The entrance is through a portico
32 feet by 12, a vestibule 29 feet by 20, and a
hall “of noble proportions,” 60 by 28 feet and
45 feet high. Surely the temple to which we are
thus conducted should be spacious and grand.

On the right of the entrance-hall is the
circulating-library, 100 by 64. The reference-
library on the second floor is approached by a
staircase winding up the side of the lofty en-
trance hall ; and with it are connected a tem-
porary art-gallery and the Shakespeare library.
The reference-library proper must present quite
a churchly appearance, being divided by gran-
ite columns into nave and aisles. The nave
reaches the height of 50 feet, and the aisles 23
feet. The Shakespeare library seems to have
been fitted up and decorated with a lavish ex-
penditure of money. The cost of the building,
including furnishings, has been $250,000.

The absence, in the description, of any men-
tion of rooms and appliances for administra-
tion, and the prominence given to architectural
and decorative features, seem to show that
advanced ideas on library construction have
received little attention.

Colonel Charles G. Hammond, of Chicago,
has contributed the funds for the erection of
a library building for the Congregational Theo-
logical Seminary of that city, which, though
not of large size, contains some features of con-
struction that are worthy of note. The building
is 67 feet long by 46 wide, with two stories and
basement. It is constructed of brick, with
sandstone courses and terra-cotta ornaments.

The basement contains a packing-room,
water-closets, heating apparatus, and a fire-
proof vault for the safe-keeping of manuscripts
and other articles of special value. In the first
story, which is 15 feet high, are the reference-
library, 31 by 44 feet, and a reading-room 31 by
34 feet. The main library-room occupies the
whole of the second story, which is 23 feet
high at the walls. This room is lighted by
windows at both ends, and by a lantern ex-
tending the entire length of the building.

Special care has been taken to render the

building fire-proof. The beams and columns
are of iron, encased in porous terra-cotta. The
spaces between the iron floor-beams are filled
with hollow tile arches. The floors are of
narrow strips of maple, nailed to sleepers im-
bedded in Portland concrete cement. By this
means the floors are thought to be made fire
and vermin proof. The iron roof-trusses are
encased in porous terra-cotta, and the roof it-
self is formed of blocks of porous terra-cotta,
laid between T irons, covered overhead v/ith
slate laid in cement, and on the under side
finished in plaster. The soffits and strings of
the stairs are covered with porous terra-cotta
and plaster. The partitions are built of hollow
tile, and there are iron shutters on all doors
and windows facing or connecting with other
buildings.

The hollow tile arches, and the hollow tile
partitions, have been utilized as conveyers and
distributers of the hot-air, and by this means,
and by the distribution of the air outlets over a
great area, it is expected to secure an equalized,
agreeable temperature throughout the build-
ing, and to avoid disagreeable hot-air blasts.

There seems to be in the building scant pro-
vision for cataloguing and the various other
kinds of library work.

The trustees of the Boston Public Library
and City Council are still manfully wrestling
with the problem of a new building for their
rich and rare collection of books, apparently
aware that the eyes of the library world are
upon them in expectation that they will rise to
the magnitude of the task committed to them.
Let us hope that wisdom will prevail, and that
the advanced thought of the day on the subject
of library architecture will have worthy em-
bodiment. As the land given by the State
seemed not sufficient for that purpose, the
city has purchased an additional lot, giving
them 66,000 square feet, equal to a lot 300 by
220, or 25 5 feet square. The trustees are about
taking up the matter of definite plans, and when
they have reached what seems to them the best
result it is intended to construct a large model,
so that the working capacity of the edifice may
be more accurately determined.

[A sketch of the new home of the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania followed.]

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Respecting the proposed and much-needed
building for our national library, probably all
that needs to be said is that the project which
was reported to Congress by the joint commit-
tee, and which'was largely and earnestly debated
both in and out of Congress, has been so thor-
oughly killed that it will stay dead for a good
length of time.

It is obvious that the leading purpose for
which any library is established will determine
the precise plan and arrangement of the build-
ing. If it is to be chiefly a lending library,
more ample provision should be made for
the rapid and accurate registry of books. If,
on the other hand, it is designed chiefly for
students, space and appliances of another kind
must be provided. But few of our libraries
belong exclusively to either of these classes ;

they nearly all, in different degrees, partake of
the features of both classes. And so it becomes
a nice and difficult question to decide on the
best adjustment of these conflicting claims. In
this matter, as in that of the administration of
libraries, the main stress has been laid upon the
gathering together and the storing of books ;
and there has been a lamentable lack of thought
as to providing accommodations and facilities
for the convenient and economic use of the
gathered treasures. That more study is given
to this matter at present is the hopeful sign of
the future.

[The paper closed with a suggestion that
resolutions be adopted urging Congress to erect
the National Library, and that a committee
be appointed to advise with the architects re-
garding the plans.]

THE SHELF^ARRANGEMENT OF BOOKS IN TFIE NEW YORK
STATE LIBRARY.

BY HENRY A. HOMES, STATE LIBRARIAN.

IN undertaking to describe to my fellow-li-
brarians the method of arranging books on
the shelves of the New York State Library, I
do not do it for the purpose of commending
the method, but because, from the description,
the members would learn that there was, at
least one library in existence where the books
are made accessible for a numerous public
without the application of any of the usual
modes of shelf-classification, or the application
of a place-number.

The briefest form in which at the outset,
and in a single sentence, I can state this method
is to say that the books are arranged on the
shelves in the same order of succession that
they are mentioned in the printed catalogues
of the library of 2,000 pages and in the MS.
card catalogues, which, without classification,
have but one alphabet for the whole library.
Our catalogues are arranged alphabetically by
authors’ names, and the first word of anony-
mous works which is not an article or prepo-
sition. On the shelves the octavos, duodeci-
mos, and smaller sizes, constitute one alpha-

betical series ; the small quartos constitute
another ; the middling quartos another ; and
large quartos and folios a fourth alphabetical
series, standing on the shelves under the octa-
vos. Elephant folios, which lie flat on broad
shelves, have their exceptional places indicated
to the librarians on an exceptions-catalogue,
intended to aid us in finding them.

To enable the librarians to execute this plan
of arranging the books, each book brought into
the library is entered into the accessions-cata-
logue of the daily additions, with a heading by
which its future place in the alphabetical card-
catalogue of the library becomes a fixed fact.
The same heading should be found stamped on
the top of the back of the book. If the head-
ing already on the book does not conform to
the heading given in the catalogue, as, in con-
sequence of the style of lettering books so gen-
erally adopted by publishers, it rarely does
conform, then the boox, before being placed
upon the shelves, is given into the hands of a,
bookbinder to be -relettered in part or in total-
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it is stamped by him in gilt letters, over the
title that the publisher has placed there ; and
sometimes we treat it as a matter of indififer-
ence whether he shall efface with water and
friction the author’s name, so frequently found
stamped two-thirds down the back. Most fre-
quently, however, it is effaced by us, whether
stamped upon leather or upon cloth, and the
erasure leaves but slight trace that it has been
effected.

In conformity with this plan, the backs of
anonymous books must be made to conform, as
regards the heading, to that which has been
adopted for them in the printed or manuscript
catalogues of the library, and, therefore, the
first word of that title, with the most important
words following, will be stamped on the back
as its title, and that lettering decides for the
book its place on the shelves, to stand alpha-
betically with the works having the authors’
names in the same series.

There are certain concomitant facts connected
with our use of this somewhat primitive sys-
tem, which will explain both the reasons for
perpetuating its existence, and the convenience
and disadvantages of it. Nearly thirty years
since, when I first became connected with the
library, it was the system which, in most re-
spects, was already adopted. From that time
to the present, during the greater part of the
period, there has not been more than one per-
son besides myself to attend to all the various
claims of service in a department of the library
of from 40,000 to 90,000 volumes, and growing
at the rate of more than 2,000 volumes and
3,000 pamphlets a year. This old system,
therefore, has been retained perforce, because,
if for no other reason, we have been at all
times too busy to change it and introduce
another. It has also been retained because
that, in our circumstances, the system has op-
erated quite successfully. Some of the circum-
stances are, that all the cases are locked and
only two persons have access to them to dis-
place the books, so that mistakes can rarely
occur. The books in their cases being all en-
closed within locked doors, the titles of the
books can be read through the wire netting, by
visitors entering the alcoves. We have no
alcove readers, as in the Astor and some other

libraries, where the reader can take books down
from the shelves ; nor is there any temptation
for a student to desire the privilege, as the
books of a class are so scattered throughout
the library that he has no desire to take down
books from the shelves. The librarians have
rarely occasion to search for any book, which is
asked for by its name, in any other place than
its proper alphabetical place in the series on
the shelves.

It must be admitted that, since the shelves
have become so excessively crowded as that
books have been placed in double rows on the
shelves, and that the alphabetical order has
been further interrupted by the introduction of
temporary cases, throwing the books in some
measure out of their order, and for other rea-
sons connected with an overcrowded space, this
usage has brought some embarrassments ; but
in the storage-rooms of the library of the new
capitol, where there will be space for expansion
for a hundred years to come at least, the new
accessions will be placed in their strict alpha-
betical order, and the system will work well
for intelligent librarians, and above the grade
of mere runners.

During the later years of my service in the
library, when the excess of books over the
space provided on the regular shelving below
became too large to be accommodated, addi-
tional shelving was gradually provided in the
galleries, and thither we would carry the books
which we knew were least in demand, like
books in foreign languages, long sets of vol-
umes and other kinds, leaving their places
below to be filled with the new accessions.

Notwithstanding my declaration that the
method which I have described is the prev-
alent one applied to the larger part of the
library, yet it must be admitted that there has
gradually grown up a considerable number of
exceptions to the rule. These exceptions, al-
though they are in favor of works on particular
topics, are not in the direction of a scientific
classification. Thus, I recall that Directories of
towns. Catalogues of colleges. Genealogies of
families. Dictionaries of languages. Grammars,
Biographical Dictionaries and Serials have been
collected into groups by themselves. This is
far from constituting a classification under gen-

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eral subjects, like History, Theology, and Sci-
ence, with subordinate headings under them.
It has been adopted from the fact that the
classes of books mentioned were those which
were most used in the library, and that, conse-
quently, it facilitated to the librarian the means
of rendering prompt service to the reader, by
enabling him to find close at hand in one case
the many books of a kind asked for.

In spite of the best arrangement we can

make, our shelves being overcrowded, and
there being many books of elephant folios, and
for other reasons, we keep up a separate card
catalogue, which we call the exceptions-cata-
logue, where the peculiar location of all those
books in the library is described, which, from
any cause, we have not been able to compel
into the general alphabetical series on the ordi-
nary shelves.

THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES
IN A HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAFICAL SYSTEM OF
CLASSIFICATION.

BY c: A. CUTTER, LIBRARIAN OF THE BOSTON ATHEN^UM.

ONE of the difficulties of classification is
choosing between the various possible
methods of arrangement. One can almost
always find two or three or four different orders
which seem almost equally good. In this case
one might have all States, counties, towns,
rivers, lakes, mountains, in a single alfabet ;
or one might arrange the States alfabetically
and under each put its counties, towns, moun-
tains, rivers, lakes, etc. ; or, finally, one might
arrange States geografically, and put under
each its towns, etc., alfabetically. I ^as
inclined to the first method, which would have
made our shelves a sort of gazetteer of the
United States, where every single place could
be found with Very little trouble ; but the whole
history and geografy of each State would not
be brought together. But I found that all the
students of American history whom I con-
sulted preferred the last ; they were in favor of
State rights ; that is, they preferred to have
Massachusetts towns in a group by themselves,
and Buffalo consorting with the other New
York towns, and not sandwiched between
Arkansas and California. I adopted this plan
therefore ; but he who ’s convinced against his
will is of the same opinion still ; the end of
it may be that I shall run all the local history
into one alfabet on the shelves, leaving the
marks as they are, just as I have done in

the case of the Scotch and Irish and English
biografy.

The next question to be decided was how to
mark the States, and how to group them. At
first 1 thought of arranging them in the way
familiar to us all from the school geografies,
and adopted in Mr. Dewey’s system : New
England, Middle, Southern, and Western
States ; but happening to see in the Nation the
classification prepared by Mr. H: Gannett, the
geografer of the Census Office, its superiority
was so evident that I could not hesitate to
adopt it. The old arrangement, he says, “was
suited to the country when nearly all the popu-
lation was upon the Atlantic slope. At pres-
ent, however, it is evidently a very curious
arrangement which places New York, New
Jersey, and Pennsylvania among the ‘ Middle
States,’ and Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois in the
‘ West.’ The sections are vastly dispropor-
tionate under this scheme. The West includes
a much greater area than the sum of the other
three sections, while it disregards, to a great
extent, geographical, social, and climatic con-
ditions.” He therefore divides our country
into three perpendicular bands, corresponding
to the natural features of the country, — the
Atlantic, the Central, and the Western. The
first two he further divides into halves by a
horizontal line, which is Mason and Dixon’s

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line for the Atlantic division, and the Ohio and
Missouri for the Great Valley. So we have
North Atlantic, stretching from Maine to Penn-
sylvania ; South Atlantic, from Delaware to
Florida ; North Central, from Wisconsin to
Kansas ; and South Central, from Kentucky to
Texas ; and Western, from Montana to Cali-
fornia. But Mr. Gannett’s division, while
sufficient for his purpose, is open to one of the
objections which he makes to the previous
scheme : the divisions are of disproportionate
size ; the plan is well enough now, but it will
hardly do for a not very distant future. Indeed,
Mr. Gannett says, “On some accounts a sub-
division of the West is advisable, separating it
perhaps into what might be denominated the
Rocky Mountain region, the Plateau region,
the Great Basin -region, and the region of the
Pacific.” I have accordingly still further di-
vided both his Central and his Western divis-
ions, the first of them by the Mississippi ;
and I make six instead of three perpendicular
bands, — the Atlantic (numbered 6) the East
Central (7), the West Central (8), the Plains
(9), the Rocky Mountains (a), the Pacific slope
(b). The separate States are designated by
adding another figure or letter. Thus 61 is
Maine, 62 New Hampshire, 63 Vermont, 64
Massachusetts, and so on. The northern and
southern divisions are distinguished by using
figures as the mark for the Northern States,
and letters for the Southern. Of the figures I
have already given examples ; for the letters
we have 6 t Virginia, 6 v N. Carolina, 6 w S.
Carolina. In the Atlantic division, where
States are small and numerous, all the nine
figures are used up ; but in the West I was
able to provide for the future possible division
of large States by using only odd numbers at
present for Northern States, leaving the even
numbers for new creations, and the vowels for
Southern States, leaving consonants for future
use. A glance at the table will show this.

We have now provided a notation for perpen-
dicular bands of our country and for separate
States ; but there is no provision for horizontal
sections. Yet the accounts of the early trans-

1 In our notation for the Western Hemisphere, i stands
for the Arctic Regions; 2 is America, 3 is North America,
4 is British America, 5 is the United States as a whole.

continental explorations, such as those of
Lewis and Clarke, or Long’s expedition, and
Parkman’s Oregon trail, and the descriptions of
the great Pacific railways, demand a place. You
will notice that there is no southern division
in the Pacific slope. This leaves a part of b
unemployed, and at our service for our present
want. The northern trans-continental zone
(as far south as the 41st parallel) is ba ; the
zone between the 41st and the 37th parallel,
containing the Union Pacific R.R,, is be; all
south of that is bi.

Towns, cities, counties, lakes, mountains, in
short any places within a State, are designated
by adding their initial and one or more figures
to the State mark. Thus, New York being 67,
Buffalo would be 6 7 b 8. The 8 is to distinguish
it from other towns beginning with B, as
Brooklyn, which is 67 B 7. In order to use
enough figures, and not more than enough to
distinguish each town from all the others begin-
ning with the same initial, we took State
gazetteers and assigned a mark to each place.
If new towns are made they will be distinguished
by the addition of more figures, as in the inter-
calating plan of author-marks.

I have been asked what I should do in the
case of places which have changed their name.
Let me say, first, that this difficulty is no worse
in this way of arrangement than in any other.
Changes are of three kinds : (i) when the name
is altered but not the size, as when West
Cambridge became Arlington ; (2) when a large
place is split into two or more smaller ones, as
when Eastham gave off Wellfleet and Orleans ;
(3) when a town is absorbed in a larger one, as
when Roxbury and Dorchester became part of
Boston. In the first case, I should arrange
the histories of the town under the present
name, whatever may be the name on the
title. In the second case, I should put the
history of the mother town under its name,
and the histories of the descendants each under
its own name. In the third case, I should put
the special histories of each of the absorbed
towns under its own name (the history or de-
scription of Islington under Islington, and not
under London, for example). I believe that
these rules will satisfy the majority of inquirers.
But, if experience should show that it is neces-

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sary, I shall put on the shelf dummies referring
from the abandoned name to the one chosen
{e.g.., West Cambridge. See Arlington). Of
course there will be such references in the
catalogue, but if we are trying to make the
shelves their own catalogue, we shall have to
borrow the reference, system.

Books on rivers, or river valleys, I have said,
are put with the books on the towns of the
State to which the river belongs. If the river
passes through more than one State, I should
put it with that in which its mouth is (the
Savannah, in Georgia,) or in which is the
greater part of its course ; or in the State which
is named from it (Connecticut, Delaware). But
the Mississippi and Missouri pass through so

many States that I have given the former a
place just between the two bands which it
separates, the East Central (7) and the West
Central (8), with the mark as 7 y ; the latter is
89, coming close after the State. Perhaps the
Colorado should be treated in the same way
(a s?). Mountains are treated, like rivers ; but
the Appalachians run through many States, and
have a mark of their own (6 a) , The Rocky
Mountains, of course, are a. Lakes, too, are
treated like rivers ; but for the great lakes I have
given the mark 72, distinguishing the single
lakes by adding their initials ; thus, Lake On-
tario is 720; Lake Erie is 7 2 e ; Lake Huron is
7 2 H ; Lake Michigan is 7 2 m ; Lake Superior,
72s.

ATLANTIC.

GREAT VALLEY.

CORDILLERAS.

Atlantic.

E. Central.

W. Central.

Plains 9.

Rocky M’ts a.

Pacific b.

N. Atlantic.

N. E. Central.

N. W. Central.

New England 6

West

N. West

N. Roc. Mts. aO

Extn. N.W. bO

Maine 61

Michigan

Minnesota

Dakota

Montana ai

Alaska

N. Hamp. 62

G't Lakes

Vermont 63
Mass. 64

Wisconsin

Iowa

Nebraska

Idaho A3

Washingt’n

Rhode Isl’d 65
Conn. 66

Ohio

Missouri

Kansas

Wyoming A5

Oregon

New York 67
New Jersey 68

Indiana

Colorado Ay

California

Penn. 69

Illinois

Miss’ri river

Utah A9

Nevada

S. Atlantic.

S. E. Central.

S. W. Central.

Horizontal Zones.

Middle 6m

Middle Min-

Delaware 6p

Maryland 69^
Dist. ofCol. 6r

Kentucky

Old S. W St

ing States A A

Northern

Tennessee

Arkansas

Ind. Ter.

New Mex. ae

Middle

South c.s.A. 6s

Virginia 6t

W. Virginia 6u

Alabama

Louisiana

Texas

Arizona Ai

Southern

N. Carolina 6v
S. Carolina 6w
Georgia 6x

Mississippi

Extr. S. W. AY

Florida 6y

Missis, river yy

Gf States

INDEX. California sy Dakota 9I

Chesapeake Bay .69^042 Delaware 6p

Alabama 71 Arizona ai Colorado Ay Delaware River .6PD37

Alaska b1 Arkansas 8e Connecticut 66 D. C 6r

Appalachian Mts.. 6a Atlantic States... 6 Conn. River ....66076 Erie, Lake 72E

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Florida 6y

Georgia 6x

Gulf States 8y

Hudson River ..671186

Huron, Lake 7211

Idaho A3

Illinois 79

Indiana 77

Indian Territory . . 9E

Iowa 83

Kansas 95

Kentucky 7A

Lakes, Great 72

Louisiana 81

Maine 61

Maryland 6q^

Massachusetts .... 64

Michigan 7I

Michigan, Lake..

72M

Middle States

Middle zone, Union

Pacific R.R. ...

Mining States,

Middle

Minnesota

Mississippi

Mississippi River.

Missouri

Missouri River. . .

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Eng. States .

New Hampshire . .

New Jersey

New Mexico .....

New York 67

Northern zone, N.

Pacific R.R. . . . BA
North Carolina . . 6v
North-West States 8
North-West States,

extreme bO

Ohio 75

Ontario, Lake.... 720

Oregon B5

Pacific Coast b

Pennsylvania 69

Plains 9

Rhode Island .... 65

Rocky Mountains. A
Savannah River. 6xsa9
Southern States.. 6s
South Atlantic... 6n

Southern zone.... bi
South Carolina . . 6w
South-West, ex-
treme AY

South-West States 8a
Superior, Lake .. 72s

Tennessee 7E

Texas 91

Union Pacific R.R. be

Utah A9

U. S 5

Virginia 6t

Vermont 63

Washington Ter. . B3
Western States. . . 7

West Virginia .... 6u

Wisconsin 73

Wyoming A5

REPORT ON FICTION IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES.

BY MELLEN CHAMBERLAIN, LIBRARIAN OF THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY.

1AM announced to report on Fiction in Public
Libraries. The subject is well-worn, and, so
far as I am aware, presents no new phase.
Statistics are newly gathered, but they wear a
familiar look. And so of opinions. Year after
year we get up steam and invoke favoring winds
and tides, but opinions remain nearly at the old
mooring. And yet to many the subject re-
tains its interest, and to some presents occasion
for alarm. At Saratoga, or somewhere, there is
now, or soon will be, a convention of doctors,
— guardians of the public health, — whose action
is generally regarded with some solicitude ; and
here, in this interesting and beautiful city of
Buffalo, are assembled the guardians of the
public morals, — the librarians, — whose action
on the subject of fiction in public libraries is
also of public interest. The time was — per-
haps to some still is — when the announcement
that fiction reading was spreading through
the community would excite alarm like the cry
of cholera. But, with a better knowledge of
these diseases, the old cries do not excite the
old terror.

I have to report, as matter of fact, that the
reading of fiction still remains epidemic. Its
presence may be detected in every town, in a
normal condition as to boys and girls, which
contains a librarian with a charge. All attempts

to stamp out the evil have proved vain ; nor
has its virulence been sensibly diminished.
It is true that from the older libraries come to
us reports of a slightly diminished percentage
in the circulation of fiction, and a corresponding
increase in other departments of literature ;
but from this we are hardly justified in infer-
ring any organic change in the constitution of
the human mind. In some cases, doubtless,
this state of things has been brought about in
forcing the circulation of what are called the
better class of books, by withholding the usual
quantity of fiction, and in part also by the
use of special aids to culture, such as class-
lists, direction and assistance within the
library, and by the formation of reading-clubs
without. But we also find, as we might expect,
in communities which have been left to regulate
their own reading, a gradual improvement of
the public taste. This improvement, however,
is not confined to reading. It manifests itself
in houses, furniture, and dress ; in the laying
out and management of gardens ; in the qual-
ity of music and poetry which the people
demand, and in almost every department of
their social life. There is advance all along
the line. Special causes have something to do
with this advance ; but the most efficient cause
is the sum of those influences which can-y

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civilization from one plane to a higher. These
influences affect communities and individuals
similarly, though not all in the same degree.

The question of the uses of fiction as an in-
strument of culture I do not propose to discuss.
The theme is a trite one, and the arguments on
both sides have been often repeated. Opinions
on that subject are divided, and perhaps irrec-
oncilably so. There are those who believe
that fiction, taken as a whole, is enervating,
and, if used at all, should be used sparingly in
public education. There are those, on the
other hand, who regard the love of fiction as
ineradicable from the human mind, and in its
use find one of the most important instruments
in the culture of the imagination, the fancy,
and the critical powers. I neither affirm nor
controvert either of these opinions.

Public libraries, with which alone I am
concerned in these observations, are those
which are supported wholly or in part at the
public expense, and in respect to whicl/ they
have the power, directly or indirectly, to make
their wishes known and respected. And, so far
as these libraries are concerned, I see no im-
mediate prospect of any essential reduction in
the amount of fiction they will require, nor of
the adoption of any standard in respect to the
quality of this fiction which will reach much
above the average moral sense of the communi-
ties in which such libraries are established.

It may be fairly assumed that no community
will demand or tolerate immoral fiction, or
fiction in quantity disproportionate to other de-
partments of literature ; and that on both of
these questions, as on other questions sub-
mitted to its judgment, it will listen to and be
guided by valid reason.

What are the relations of public libraries to
the municipalities which maintain them ? Let
us reach the answer by degrees. Theoretically,
parents have sole and absolute power over the
education of their children. If parents are intel-
ligent as to the right use of books, and have
practical as well as theoretical control of their
children, they may so direct their reading as to
promote the symmetrical development of the
memory, the imagination, and the reasoning
faculties. In an ideally perfect world this would
be the case ; and the moral is, that we must

make the world ideally perfect, and cause
parents to be intelligent as to the right use of
books, and in the practical as they are now in
the theoretical control of their children.

Some of this power, by nature and law vested
in parents, has been delegated to teachers ; but,
so far as this delegation of power and responsi-
bility has become part of a system of education,
the results are equal neither to cost nor to
reasonable expectation. Yet it is a power bene-
ficially exercised, upon the whole, and teachers
undoubtedly influence in a considerable and
healthy degree the reading of those under their
charge in the public schools.

And so may libraries, especially those in small
and homogeneous communities, which are sup-
ported by endowments independent of the
public treasury, and whose public sentiment is
formed and regulated by the best people. In such
cases the trustees may impose their peculiar
views upon the community, and, within certain
limits, compel it to select its reading, not in
accordance with its own wishes, but in accord-
ance with the opinion of the governing board.

But we have to adapt ourselves to an entirely
different state of things in which a public library
is chiefly maintained by a levy on the persons
and estates of the citizens, and controlled by
trustees, dependent for their election and con-
tinuance in office upon the popular vote ; and,
in respect to these libraries, the number of
which will increase indefinitely, we may as well
make up our minds now, as we shall be obliged
to sooner or later, that the books purchased
for them will be mainly such as the public
demand. We may wish otherwise; but it will
not be otherwise. We may believe that the
trustees have no right to expend the public
money for the mere amusement of the people ;
but, if the people think differently, trustees must
yield to their wishes, or leave. We may, per-
chance, even come to think that public libraries
circulating a large percentage of fiction are of
doubtful utility ; but, unhappily, it may be, we
shall not be permitted to carry our views in that
regard into practical effect. The public claim
the right to determine what they will read, and
whether they will read it at individual or at
municipal expense.

Libraries, and those who manage them, must

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align themselves to other popular institutions,
and share their fortunes. We must accept them,
as we accept the church, the press, the school,
and the ballot, — with all their imperfections.
It is too late to go back on our theory of govern-
ment, — the validity and potency of the voice of
the people. This may not be agreeable to our
feelings, nor in accordance with our judgment
as to the fitness of things ; but until we accept it,
and act upon it, we shall be at cross-purposes
with the inevitable.

Another fact is to be kept in mind : that no
institution and no set of institutions are to re-
form the world ; nor, on the other hand, is the
world to make its institutions ideally perfect
just yet. It is neither true that constitutions
are precisely what the people make them, nor
are the people just as their institutions should
make them. With society as it is with us, if
there were organized and set in operation in-
stitutions and agencies ideally perfect, and each
designed to work in some department of human
welfare, we should probably observe this phe-
nomenon as the result of action and counter-
action, the gradual deterioration of these insti-
tutions, and the gradual improvement of society.
In time they would come to represent each
other. Nor is this mere speculation. It finds
verifications in the history of many communities.
Consider all that system of institutions, such as
the common school, the college, and the church,
which, two centuries and a half ago, were planted
in New England on a free soil, unencumbered
with the depressing circumstances of European
life. The result of these institutions has not
been equal to the expectations of those who
founded them.

Neither libraries nor librarians will altogether
enlighten the world. Least of all will they
succeed when they undertake to set themselves
above it. It is only when they become part of
it, and represent its wishes, that they will make
what is good in them an influence for good.

To my mind, therefore, the conclusion of the

whole matter is this : consent that libraries, as
other institutions, be fairly representative of
the communities in which they exist, and from
which they derive their support. Their influ-
ence, in the nature of things, will be reciprocal ;
but, if the train is to move, the engine must be
attached.

This seems to me not only wise, but indis-
pensable. For no considerable time will the
people support institutions with which they are
not in full sympathy. They must have news-
papers, and sermons, and books which they
understand, and in which they take an interest,
if they are to profit by them. This will be so
and should be so ; for by this close connection
and sympathy alone can either do its work,
and so justify its existence.

Make the standard in the selection of books
for the public library as high as the community
will sustain. Of course the community will
demand no immoral and no absolutely worthless
books. Books are of no value unless read ;
and reading is of no public utility, and should
not be provided at public expense, and will not
in the long run, unless, upon the whole, it
makes wiser and better communities. The
uneasiness which so widely prevails with regard
to the public schools proceeds in no small
degree from a feeling that they are getting
above the people. If there is any foundation
for this feeling let the libraries avoid it by
giving no occasion for its existence. When we
have educated one generation of readers it
won’t do to throw away boys’ and girls’ books,
and buy classics. There is another generation,
and another, and indefinite others to the end
of time, each of which will go through essen-
tially the same process of reading as part of
their education. We must not forget that the
laws of seed-time and harvest are not only
inexorable, but eternal. If we sow but once
we shall reap but once. The plough, no less
than the reaper, is essential to the harvest.

CUTTER.

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THE BUFFALO PUBLIC LIBRARY IN 1983.

BY C. A. CUTTER, LIBRARIAN OF THE BOSTON ATHEN^UM.

IN the year 1983 I had come to Buffalo from
Niagara, where I had been admiring the
magnificent canal works by which the enor-
mous power of the Falls was collected to be
transmitted by wire, not merely to the great
manufacturing city that had grown up upon
each bank of the river, but also to Buffalo,
where every machine, from a hundred-ton trip-
hammer to an egg-beater, was driven by the
water that had formerly only furnished a liveli-
hood to hack-drivers and toll- takers. The

Falls were as beautiful as ever, though their
volume was slightly diminished. Along the
bank ran the park ; for all the factories, which
were generally owned and managed in Buffalo,
were kept at a distance from the water and
hidden by trees. These great industrial towns,
which furnished Buffalo its wealth, both
directly and by nourishing its commerce, con-
tained several well-used collections of books of
moderate size, but no great library such as I
was told I should see at Buffalo.

That city was not then one of the largest of
the United States, having about two millions
of inhabitants ; but it yielded to none in the
attention it gave to popular education, part of
the remarkable commercial energy which dis-
tinguished the first century of its existence,
having naturally, with the acquisition of
wealth, been turned into the channels of litera-
ture, art, and science. The library, therefore,
as being the very culmination of the educational
system, had a high reputation both for its
excellent management, for the extent to which
it was used, and for the pride and affection
with which it was regarded by the citizens.
The library building was near the centre of the
city. A whole block some 200 feet square had
been secured for it. Part was already built
upon, and part, reserved for the inevitable
extension of a growing collection, was occu-
pied by stores and houses, whose rents were
allowed to accumulate for a building fund.
Wide avenues gave it air and light, and pro-

tected it against fire on three sides ; on the
fourth there was space enough between the
library and the shops. The situation, as I
have said, was central, and yet it was a little
retired from the noisiest streets. All the
neighboring paving was of a kind to minimize
the clatter of passing vehicles, and particular
attention was paid to keeping the ways scrupu-
lously clean, to prevent, as far as might be, the
evil of dust.

The building, when complete, was to consist
of two parts, the first a central store, 150 feet
square, a compact mass of shelves and passage-
ways, lighted from the ends, but neither from
sides nor top ; the second an outer rim of
rooms 20 feet wide, lighted from the four
streets. In front and rear the rim was to con-
tain special libraries, reading-rooms, and work-
rooms ; on the sides, the art-galleries. The
central portion was a gridiron of stacks, run-
ning from front to rear, each stack 2 feet wide,
and separated from its neighbor by a passage
of 3 feet. Horizontally, the stack was divided
by floors into 8 stories, each 8 feet high, giving
a little over 7 feet of shelf-room, the highest
shelf being so low that no book was beyond the
reach of the hand. Each reading-room, 16
feet high, corresponded to two stories of the
stack, from which it was separated in winter by
glass doors. When I first entered a reading-
room, which was in summer, when the doors
were off, I was much amused by the appearance
of the two tiers of passages running off from
one side like so many bird holes in a sandy
river-bank, sixty of them leading off into dark-
ness. They were, in fact, sixty short tunnels,
with floors for top and bottom and books for
sides, 8 feet high, 3 feet wide, and now 75
feet long. When the library should occupy
the whole lot, they were to be 150 feet long.
“ Their length might equally well,” said my
guide, “ be 300 feet, for they do not depend
upon the sun for light. In the night, or in a
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knob, which lights an electric glow-lamp in the
middle ; that shows him his way. There are
other lamps in the tunnel at suitable distances.
If his central lamp does not give him light
enough to read the titles or the books them-
selves at the shelf where he is, he has only to
touch the button of the nearest lamp to get all
the light he wants. In the first experiments
in stack-building, which were made a century
ago, if the light came from the sides, either
the stack could not exceed 20 feet in width, or
the middle was dark ; if one wanted to use a
wide lot of ground, it was necessary to have
light-wells about as wide as the stack, which
sacrificed valuable space and neutralized the
sole advantage of a stack, which is compact
storage of the books. If an attempt was made
to let the light from the top filter down through
perforated, or through glass floors, the lower
passages were still dark, and in summer the
upper floors under a glass roof were intolerably
hot. With electric illumination we are both
light and cool. We can store the greatest
number of books in the closest proximity to
the reading-room, and extend our storage-room
indefinitely. There is no way in which books
can be packed in closer nearness to the place
where they are used. We have now room for
over 500,000 volumes in connection with each
of the four reading-rooms, or 4,000,000 for the
whole building when completed. In the pres-
ent reading-room there are 9,000 square feet
on the front of the building, without counting
the special rooms under the art-galleries on the
side. We have, of course, book-lifts, noiseless
and swift, to take the books from floor to floor.
For horizontal transmission we tried various
little railroads, but came to the conclusion that
a smart boy was the best and the quickest
railroad in a library. For carrying many
books at a time, of course, we use trucks ; and,
as the attendants in each room have two stories
of shelves to go to, to save the fatigue of climb-
ing even the small height of 8 feet, each room
has several little lifts just large enough for one
person, driven, like everything else in the
library, by Falls-power.”

“ The books,” he told me, “ are arranged in
groups of subjects on the different stories,
those most called for lowest. On the ground-

floor is a selection from all classes of books
that are in most active circulation, many of
them duplicated in their proper places on
higher floors. On the same floor is the class
literature, because it is, on the whole, the most
sought for. We have not yet escaped the pre-
ponderant use of fiction though we have dimin-
ished it since your day. It used to be 75
per cent. Thanks to our training the school
children in good ways it has fallen to forty. I
doubt if it goes much lower. The next two
stories are given to the historical, geografical,
and social sciences ; the fourth to the natural
sciences, the industrial arts, the fine arts and
sports, and finally to filosofy and theology.
When several classes correspond to a single
reading-room, one of them is put on one side
of the stack opposite one end of the reading-
room, another opposite the middle, and a third,
if there are three, opposite the other end.
This arrangement greatly facilitates procuring
books. Every one goes to that reading-room,
and to that part of the room whose adjacent
shelves contain the subject he is going to work
on, — if art, to the fourth story, middle; if
European history, to the second story, west
end. If he happens to need books from
another class, of course he can have them sent
up or down to him.

“ But the main advantage of this system of
separate reading-rooms is that it compels the
appointment of just as many competent libra-
rians. There must be one for each floor, and in
fact there is one for each great subject, — a sci-
entific man for the science, an art lover for the
art, an antiquarian for the history, and a trav-
eller for the geografy ; and even in their attend-
ants the specialization of function has led to a
special development of ability. In selecting
them we take into account aptitude, so far as it
can be discovered, but we find that a librarian
who is himself interested will train even his
runners into a very considerable degree of ca-
pacity to assist readers. This we think an ex-
tremely important matter. It is a more glori-
ous thing to organize and administer a great
library, but full as good results may be got
even in very small collections of books by a
sort of spade husbandry. We boast of both
here. Our chief librarian is not more success-

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fill ill the conduct of the whole than his subor-
dinates are in the thorough cultivation each of
his own little plot." On the one hand their
knowledge of the shelves, volume by volume,
on the other, their personal intercourse with the
students enable them to give every book to
that reader to whom it will do most good, — as
a skilful bookseller suits the tastes of his
patrons, — and to answer every inquiry with the
best work the library has on that matter, as
the doctor prescribes the right medicines for
his patient. No one man could do this for our
half million volumes ; and our chief librarian’s
ability, for all his enormous acquaintance with
literature, is best shown in his selection of the
men who do it for him.”

The first room that I entered was the de-
livery on the ground floor. It was divided
into three parts, all having access to a central
curved counter, the middle one for children,
the right side for women, the left for men.
There was nothing remarkable about it save
the purity of the air. I remarked this to the
friend who accompanied me, and he said that
it was so in all parts of the building ; ventila-
tion was their hobby ; nothing made the libra-
rian come nearer scolding than any impurity in
the air.

“ We do not have drafts,” he said, “ because
we introduce and draw off our air at so many
points ; but we do have a constant re-
newal of the air, and the more borrow-
ers or readers there are the faster we renew it.
Formerly we had a young man, whose sole duty
it was to attend to heat and ventilation ; and to
ensure his attention there were several register-
ing thermometers and hygrometers and atmos-
ferometers in every room. If he let the heat
get above 70 in the reading-room or above 60
in the stack, or if the dryness or the iinpurity
went beyond a certain point, there was the tell-
tale record to accuse him, and that record was
examined every day by the chief librarian.
After a time one of these ventilators invented
an arrangement by which the rooms regulated
their own dryness and heat. The air is nearly
as good as out-of-doors. Every one must be
admitted into the delivery-room, but from the
reading-rooms the great unwashed are shut out
altogether or put in rooms by themselves.

Luckily public opinion sustains us thoroughly
in their exclusion or seclusion.

“ And our care is as useful to our dead as to
our living wards. The bindings do not dry up
as they would if the air were not filled with
moisture to its proper capacity. The books we
sometimes get at auction, bound in powder,
show^ what carelessness in this regard leads
to.”

From the delivery-room my guide led me
down into a basement running under the whole
building, — the newspaper-room. I found there
an apparently full collection of the Buffalo
press and .the journals of the neighboring
towns, but no other American papers. I ex-
pressed my surprise. My guide said that
half a century before the preservation of
newspapers had become one of the most per-
plexing problems of library economy. “For
local history they are invaluable, but if kept
with any completeness they occupy an enor-
mous amount of room ; they soon fill up the
largest building. The American libraries,
therefore, made a league among themselves.
Each large library agreed to provide a fire-proof
depository, and to each was assigned a certain
territory, — its own city and the country around,
— on its promise to keep every paper published
within those bounds that it could buy or beg.
If it received any daily published outside of the
limit, it was to send it to the proper depository
for that paper. A few exceptions were made
of newspapers which were to the United States
what the ‘ Times ’ is to England ; these any li-
brary that chooses is allowed to keep for the
use of its patrons.” “For others,” said he,
“ the plan works in this way : if I want a Cin-
cinnati paper I telefone to the public library
there to set a searcher at work to hunt up the
matter in question. When she has found it she
may either copy it or read it off to me through
the telefone, or, better still, read it to a fono-
graf and transmit on the foil. She sends
the charge for her time, which is moderate, to
the librarian here, and I pay him. This ex-
change is going on all the time between the
different libraries. Of course it is not exactly
the same thing as having the newspapers at
hand, but in some respects it is better. The
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will find things which the untrained inquirer
would be sure to miss. The great advantage,
however, is that it leads to a more thorough
keeping of newspapers than would otherwise be
possible.”

From the newspaper basement a lift took us
to one of the reading-rooms. These rooms were
narrow, to ensure perfect light at every desk.
The windows ran to the very top of the room
and occupied more than half the wall space.
The desks had every convenience that could
facilitate study ; but what most caught my eye
was a little key-board at each, connected by a
wire with the librarian’s desk. The reader had
only to find the mark of his book in the catalog,
touch a few lettered or numbered keys, and
on the instant a runner at the central desk
started for the volume, and, appearing after an
astonishingly short interval at the door nearest
his desk, brought him his book and took his
acknowledgment without disturbing any of the
neighboring readers.

^ “ In the National Library,” said my friend,
“ which has the treasury of a whole continent to
draw from, and can afford any luxury, they have
an arrangement that brings your book from the
shelf to your desk. You have only to touch
the keys that correspond to the letters of the
book-mark, adding the number of your desk,
and the book is taken off the shelf by a pair of
nippers and laid in a little car, which immedi-
ately finds its way to you. The whole thing is
automatic and very ingenious ; but the machin-
ery is complicated and too costly for us, and
and for my part I much prefer our pages with
their smart uniforms and noiseless steps.
They wear slippers, the passages are all cov-
ered with a noiseless and dustless covering,
they go the length of the hall in a passage-way
screened off from the desk-room so that they
are seen only when they leave the stack to cross
the hall towards any desk. As that is only 20
feet wide, the interruption to study is nothing.”

I complained that the room was low for its
length. “ Why should it not be?” he replied,
“There is nothing gained in collecting a
quantity of bad air, and storing it in the upper
part of a lofty room ; what is wanted is to re-
move the used and contaminated air altogether,
and this we do. As to appearance, the outside

of the building is very effective ; inside every-
thing is sacrificed to utility. The great stack,
with its rows of shelves, each two feet wide,
separated by alleys of three feet width and cut
apart horizontally by seven floors, is entirely
without beauty ; indeed it cannot be seen as a
whole. But it stores a vast number of books
in a very small space, and close to where they
are wanted. The reading-halls, 150 feet long,
20 feet wide, only 16 feet high and cut up by
desks, offer as little chance to the architect as
any room you can imagine. But each of the
four floors accommodates 100 readers with
comfort.”

We now went up to the fifth floor. “ This,”
said my guide, “ is our cataloging and machine
room. The books are classed and prepared
for cataloging, each in its own department,
under the eye of the librarian of that class.
Difficult cases may be referred to the chief
librarian, who will decide them or turn them
over to the council, an advisory body com-
posed of the several librarians, who meet
every week, presided .over by their chief,
and deliberate on doubtful points of administra-
tion. But in the department the book is only
prepared, the heading is settled, notes are writ-
ten, and the like ; the actual cataloging is done
here by fotografy, instantaneous of course, as
all fotografy now is. Here, you see, the new
books are arranged, open at the title, against
this upright board. These are duodecimos and
octavos, the quartos are put on that stand farther
off, and the folios farther off still, so that all the
plates may be of about the same size. The
standard catalogue card now is ten centimeters
wide and fifteen high. Underneath each title
you notice a slip, on which the cataloger has
written those facts which the title does not
show ; the number of volumes, various biblio-
grafical particulars, dnd sometimes short
criticisms. These are reproduced on the
plate. Longer notes, which are sometimes
needed, must have a separate card. When a
sufficient number of boards are ready one is
put upon this travelling-car which is moved
forward by clock-work ; as each title comes in
focus the slide of the instrument is drawn, and
the title and its note are fotograft. The
whole operation is very short, and, since the

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late improvements, mucli cheaper than writing.
The printing from the negative is done in this
way. We want, of course, different numbers of
the different titles according to the number of
times which tliey will enter into the catalog.
A few, for instance, will only appear in the
author catalog ; others must be put under half
a dozen different subjects. Multiplying the
number of our catalogs by the number of
appearances, and doubling this (for we always
reserve the same number that we use) gives
the required number. You see these round
stands some with 6, some with 7, some with 8
sides, and so on. The cards to be printed are put
into these and revolved in focus before the in-
strument. Different combinations give us the
number of cards we want. If it is 25, two tens
and a five are revolved; if it is 16, a ten and
six are put on.” But doesn’t the mounting take
a long time? “ Oh, no ; nobody mounts now-
days, we fotograf directly upon the card.” The
cards, by the way, were not kept in drawers,
but ingeniously fastened together to make little
books so contrived as to allow insertions with-
out rebinding. “ Experience has shown that
they can be consulted more readily in this
way than when kept in drawers.”

I asked my guide what precautions he took
against fire. “What is there to burn? The
walls, floors, shelving, are all of incombustible
materials. Books burn slowly, and it would be
almost impossible for the fire to spread. There
was an idea twenty-five years ago of dipping
the books in the solution which they use for
actresses’ dresses and scenery on the stage ; but
it never took root. Librarians saw that they
might as well spoil their books by fire as by
water. It was a case of propter vitain vivendi
perdere causas. We are not likely to burn.
Our electric lights are absolutely safe ; our
elevator and other machinery are run by pov^er
from the Falls, brought in by wire, and all our
heat is supplied from the outside by the City
Heat Company. In the building there is noth-
ing to start a fire and next to nothing to feed
it.”

“ Have you any branches ? ” I asked. “Yes,
several ; in the outlying parts of the city are
branch libraries, each containing a small store
of books and a study-room, and connected by

telefone to the central library, so that books
can be ordered for delivery or use there, which
is a considerable relief for the central reading-
rooms, to say nothing of the accommodation to
the distant suburbs.”

“ But what,” he continued, “ will be a nov-
elty to you, is the listening-room, where works,
of which v/e have fonografic editions prepared
by the best readers, are read by machines, of-
ten to crowded audiences. The rooms are dis-
tributed all over the city, fifty or more, and we
are intending to increase the number. People
go to them with their whole families, except to
those where smoking is allowed, which are fre-
quented for the most part by men alone.
There they listen to the reading of a story or
an entertaining history or biografy, or book of
travels, or a work of popular science. Some-
times one work occupies the whole evening,
sometimes selections are read. The program
for the whole city is advertised in the papers
each day. The reading-machines have reached
such a pitch of perfection that it is as if^one
were listening to an agreeable elocutionist. 1
prefer to do my own reading, but there are
many whose eyes are weak, or who do not read
with ease, or have not comfortable homes, or
do not own the book that is to be read, or pre-
fer to listen in company. We are very partic-
ular about the ventilation. We do not want
any one to go to sleep.” I asked him whether
he thought these readings gave any real
instruction, or only amusement. He admitted
that an exciting novel would draw better than
anything else, but said that they did not allow
the selection to run too much to fiction. “ In
the circulation of books we have to follow the
public taste, but in these listening-rooms we
have the matter more in our control. Of
course we must select bright books which the
people will come to hear. Dull books must be
rigidly excluded ; but that is not difficult, be-
cause no dull book is published in reading-
machine editions. Yes, I think a great deal of
information is spread that way, and at any
rate they are a valuable rival to the dram-shops,
and keep many a young man out of bad places.
The readings are usually in the evening. Where
a school-room is used for the purpose it must
be so ; but, for our own branches, we have a

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rule that if ten people ask for a reading in the
day-time it shall be granted, with any book
they choose. When trade is dull there are
readings going on all day.”

I omit many details in which their ways did
not differ much from ours, — the book-trucks,
the fall-power lifts just large enough for one
person, the means of communication between
all parts of the building by telefone or pneu-
matic tubes, or in any other way that the situa-
tion required. Their intention was to make
the work easy and quick, and to reduce time
and space as nearly as possible to zero. I
cannot stop to describe the arrangements for
allowing the public access to the shelves. But
I may mention that the library was open every
day in the year, without any exception ; that
one study-room was kept open as late at night
as anybody wanted it, and on several occasions,
when there was a special need, it had been kept
open all night.

“One other practical point : The fonograf,” I
was^to]d,“ plays a great part in our library work.
If Boston or Philadelphia has a rare book
from which we wish extracts, instead of
having it sent on with the risk of loss, we
have a fonografic foil made of the desired pas-
sages, which are read off to us, or, if we pay a
little more, are sent On. In the latter case, a
duplicate, made by a new process, is kept
at the library, so that librarians gradually
accumulate fonografic reproductions of all their
rarest books, and when they are called for have
only to put the foil in the machine and have it
read off through the wires to the end of the
Union. All the libraries in the country, you
see, are practically one library.”

As I was leaving the library by the side door
a troop of children came flocking in in such
numbers that one would have thought it to
be a public school. “ I thought your de-
livery-room for boys and girls was on the front
of the building,” said I to my friend. “ It is,”
said he. “ These children are not going to
borrow books but to learn how to use them.
Public libraries are maintained here not more
for the adult public than as a branch of the
public schools. We have a reading-room de-
voted solely to the use of scholars, and a libra-
rian who gives all his time to the assistance of

school-children. It was thought, when he was
first appointed, that at many times in the day
he would have nothing to do; but it was soon
found that this was a mistake. What with as-
sisting scholars when they come, keeping their
accounts of special loans, preparing reference-
lists on subjects given out for compositions,
meeting classes who come on every day from
some one of the schools to receive what might
be called an object lesson in bibliokresis, — the
use of books, — not only is his time fully occu-
pied, but he has to have assistants.

“You must not be misled by my speaking of
his preparing reference-lists for compositions.
He does not lay these lists before the scholars.
That would keep them too much in leading-
strings. A main object of the system is to
teach them to help themselves. So, although
when, in their school course, they reach the time
at which they first visit the library, he gives
them such lists, he does it not so much to
assist them in that particular case as to show
them by an example what can be done. And
he tries to lead them afterwards to do the same
thing for themselves, only giving them hints
from time to time, and by a Socratic question-
ing leading them to discover for themselves.

“ There are great differences, of course,
among the children. Some take to the exercise
as ducks to water, some manifest the most per-
fect indifference. There is the same variety
throughout education. But, on the whole, no
part of our library work is more effective. I do
not hesitate to say that the tiseful reading is
quadrupled in any city where such a course is
pursued, for the children with whom the method
takes grow up as real inquirers instead of being
desultory amusement-seekers. The ordinary
novel-reader is not done away with, though
his tribe may be diminished. But novel-
readers come from a different class, and read
for a different object. We never can convert
them, and often cannot intercept the taste in
youth. Our chief work is to bring into the fold
those who otherwise would not read books at
all. It is not the novel but the newspaper
reader that we aim to catch.

“ But there is more than this. You will think
I am using great words, but I know our school
librarian. In his best moments, and with his

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best pupils, it is not the mere love and habit
of reading, nor the wise selection of books and
their judicious use, nor even the desire of
knowledge alone that he would like most to
impart, but Some culture of heart and soul.
This, however, is a matter that does not con-
sist with rules and methods, and does not ap-
pear in reports. It comes from a word, a look,
a tone, an influence. I cannot show you this.

“ But I have shown you enough for you to
see that our library is not a mere cemetery of
dead books, but a living power, which supplies
amusement for dull times, recreation for the
tired, information for the curious, inspires the
love of research in youth, and furnishes the
materials for it in mature age, enables and in-

duces the scholar not to let his study end with
his school days. When he leaves the gram-
mar school, it receives him into the people’s
university, taking also those who graduate
from the university and giving them too more
work to do. Its mottoes are always ‘ plus ultra ’
and ‘ excelsior.’' There is not an institution in
the country more democratic, not one which
distributes its benefits more impartially to rich
and poor, and not one, I believe, in which there
is less taint of corruption and less self-seeking
in those who administer it.”

With these words he left me, and I must
leave you, thanking you for the kindness with
which you have accompanied me in this little
excursion in the land of dreams.

REPORT ON THE READING OF THE YOUNG.

BY MISS MARY A. BEAN, LIBRARIAN OF THE BROOKLINE PUBLIC LIBRARY.

IN preparing what may be termed the Second
Annual Report upon the ‘ ‘ Reading of the
Young,” it seemed to me very desirable to
preserve some sort of uniformity in the method
of treatment, and I have therefore followed the
admirable plan initiated by my predecessor in
last year’s report, and have gathered my infor-
mation through postal inquiries, for the most
part, not only sending to all the librarians
quoted by Miss Hewins, on the supposition
that they would have progress to report, but
also pushing my inquiries beyond the pale of
so-called leading libraries into twenty-five insti-
tutions of lesser celebrity but of undoubted
standing and usefulness, on the premise that
we might find the leaven working in hidden
places in a way which might profit us to know.

The liberal harvest which the larger libraries
yielded last season has failed to come to my
garner, on the same principle as the “ off years ”
in all standard fruit-bearing trees, I presume ;
yet I am happy to report the possession of some
choice fruits, of which I shall give youspecimens,
simply pausing long enough to return cordial
thanks to each and all of my kind corre-
spondents, as well as to tliose who have invol-

untarily contributed material through the
medium of their annual reports.

The question of juvenile reading is so closely
allied to that of the cooperation of school and
library that I must be pardoned if I trench
somewhat upon that ground, since nearly all
the work reported is, more or less, in that field,
as the following extracts will show.

The Report of the Chicago Public Library,
June, 1883, gives an extended and interesting
account of the movement in that city, quite loo
long to be quoted entire, but the cream of which
is thus put by Mr. Poole : —

“ The plan in brief is this : An appointment
is made with a teacher to bring his class to the
library on a Saturday morning at 10 o’clock. A
subject for the day is selected, usually one
which the class had been studying from text-
books. The standard books and illustrated
works in the library on that subject are laid out
on the table in the directors’ room, the teacher
supervising the selection, and preparing himself
to speak upon it, and especially with reference
to the books before him, indicating such as are
of the best authority, and describing the best
method of using them. A preliminary talk is

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made by the librarian, who welcomes the pupils,
explains the purpose for which they were
invited, which is that they may become better
acquainted with the library, its resources, and
the best way of using it. All these facilities of
study are theirs, and they are invited to make
the freest use of them. Hints and suggestions
are given them how they can best acquire the
habits of investigating subjects for themselves.
The subject of the day is taken up and followed
out as an illustration of the method by which a
subject may be investigated, the purpose being
to stimulate the pupils to a scholarly love of
books, to know the tools they are to use, and
how to use them. The teacher then makes his
address, after which the pupils remain and
examine the books. They are later taken
through the library and shown its arrangement,
appliances, and catalogues.

“The results are already seen in the many
pupils who frequent the reference-tables, and
have applied for cards for drawing books.

“Since January the 27th, when they began,
there have been seventeen of these exercises,
and the interest in them has been constantly in-
creasing. . . . The success which has attended
this experiment has been chiefly owing to the
zeal and culture which the teachers have thrown
into it. Their addresses to the pupils have
been models of good taste and felicitous in-
struction. If repeated to a general audience
they would be a healthy substitute for the
superficial talk which passes in our day for
popular lectures.”

Miss Jenkins, assistant librarian of the Lower
Hall, Boston Public Library, very kindly sent
me a detailed account of their work, which is
interesting enough to make a separate paper.
I quote the following items : —

“ I think our reading in this department is
more profitable and not less entertaining than
in former years. We are aided greatly by the
excellence and variety of our juvenile litera-
ture. I depend very much upon personal in-
tercourse and influence with our boys and girls,
using regularly the time at noon and night, and
nearly all day on Saturday when they most
frequent the library, and am fortunate in having
the steady cooperation of many of the teachers
in both public and private schools. I ex-

amine with great care all our books as received,
and strive for such an acquaintance with the
young people as will enable me to suit taste and
capability.

“ The books included in the many admirable
lists for children are most of them old favorites
here, and we are continually replacing new
copies of the old good books, and adding the
new publications.

“ When a child seeks assistance, I always, if I
cannot give just what is asked for, supply
something like it, and, after two or three times,
a friendly feeling grows between you, and your
young friend is ready to take your selection
without question v/hen his has failed. . . The
indefatigable reader of Adams and Alger is
often diverted from these books, by a tempting
display of some attractive, illustrated volumes,
combining stories of history and travel, and
when you assure him that these stories are true,
he often goes to the other extreme and demands
persistently ‘ true stories’. ... To the seeker
of stories of adventure I recommend a chapter
or two of some bright book of travel (not in
beaten paths) and intended for older readers ;
my juvenile is often sufficiently interested to
read the book, and to ask for ‘ something else
as good.’ In this way much is done to over-
come the appetite for fictitious and extravagant
adventure which has so long engrossed the
young reader.

“ When the habit of seeking assistance, which
we encourage, really becomes a habit, I often
give a list of books for miscellaneous reading ;
sometimes all the stories will be read and the
rest left, others will try all. Then the one-idea
juvenile — such as the girl who wants only fairy
stories, or the boy who wants street-life — I
coax to try something else alternately. . . .
We endeavor to vary the reading for all who
habitually apply for help, in order to form
tastes for better books, and we discourage
applications for stories of street-life, poor-house
boys who become millionnaires, etc.

“ It has been a general complaint from teach-
ers, that the excessive amount of books skimmed
by the children weakened their mental power,
and that they did nothing thoroughly. During
the past year several teachers have, at my sug-
gestion, taken to their school-rooms simple.

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pleasantly-written stories, books of natural
history, stories of the youth of illustrious men
and women, have read from them to the class,
have loaned the book in the school-room, and
have talked with the pupils about the book, and
have tried to train and encourage thought and
expression, to give the printed word meaning ;
and in several classes good results appear. . . .

“Just before the summer vacation a number
of teachers applied for lists of books, mainly
stories, to recommend to their pupils for sum-
mer reading. I gladly furnished these lists
with our numbers, and find that the steady
circulation and constant inquiry for these books
is obliging us to procure additional copies.
Such is the work with the multitude of juveniles
who frequent our halls, and who, while waiting
for their books, read ‘ St. Nicholas,’ ‘ Wide
Awake,’ and ‘ Harper’s Young People.’

‘ ‘ I have continued the work of supplementary
reading, in connection with English and Amer-
ican history and geography, in the Grammar
schools, and the hearty cooperation of many of
our teachers has given firmness and purpose to
it. The graduating examinations of several of
the classes gave ample proof of the usefulness
of the work. . . .

“ The pupils read not only the popular
histories, especially intended for them, but are
assisted to select chapters or topics from'the
more solid books. The sets of books provided
by the liberality of our chief librarian, Judge
Chamberlain, for special supplementary read-
ing for school use, have been in active service,
and the pupils of the schools, where these sets
of books have been used, give evidence that
‘ skimming ’ is no longer the order of the day,
and that they at least are learning ‘ how to
read a book.’ . . .

In view of these efforts and their apparent
results. Miss Jenkins says: “We feel that
some little, at least, is being done to prove
that children are taken care of, and that a
combination of teacher and librarian is the
best assistance to give to a child. The libra-
rian can provide and recommend the books,
and induce the child to take them, but the
teacher must do his or her part, and teach how
to read and profit by the reading.”

The Report of the Trustees of the Fletcher

Free Library, made to the City Council of Bur-
lington, Vt., January, 1883, contains the fol-
lowing : —

“This year we have a novelty to present,
which we are sure will commend itself to you
and the public. This is the beginning of a
plan to make the library more useful in our
schools. A wise old book says : ‘ The world is
saved by the breath of school-children.’ It is
important, then, the public library should do
its part to make this breath of life sane, and
strong, and pure. And ours is seeking if it
may not be more systematically and definitely
useful to our public schools. The trustees have
had little to do in arranging the plan. They
have simply consented to it, and they will fos-
ter it. The credit is due to our painstaking
librarian, and the faithful teachers who have
fallen in with it. It is only a beginning, and
too much is not to be claimed for it or expected
of it. But it promises well.

“ It is, really, a plan to make the schools
branch libraries, or, if you please, to make the
library an annex to the schools. Baskets of
books are sent to the Primary and Intermediate
schools, of the best reading for girls and boys,
which the teachers then loan, keeping the
proper account. These are circulated till they
are read through, and then another basket is
got together by the teachers and librarian.
Thus, instead of choosing in a blind way from
the catalogue, or by hearsay from their mates,
the children are directed in a plain way to good
reading. Already some of the teachers report
a healthy readiness on the part of the scholars
to read what is thus ready to hand, and set be-
fore them with pleasant explanations as to what
the books are all about.

“He was prudent, who, in answer to the
cant about ‘ not prejudicing a child’s mind,’ re-
plied that he would prefer to ‘ prejudice ’ his
garden-plot in favor of strawberries than leave
it to the chance of purslain and pig- weed.’
This novelty in our library work promises to
do something to plant ‘ herb of grace ’ in the
children’s minds.”

The librarian himself kindly supplements
this report by letter, under date of July 25, in
the course of which he gives a similar outline
of his work, and adds : —

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“It may occur to you that the librarian is
becoming the Superintendent of schools ; but
I can assure you that our experiments are both
pleasant and profitable.”

The librarian of the Providence Public Li-
brary, one of the indefatigable, and, therefore,
one of the most successful, pioneers in this
work, after referring me to his article in the
“ Library Journal,” for February, 1883, for the
most noteworthy of the methods relating to
children’s reading which fall within the last
year, says : —

“In one of the Grammar schools the first
assistant had noticed, at the beginning of the
school year, that several of the girls in the
highest class had a common interest of some
kind, and on inquiry she found that they were
in the habit of meeting once a week at their
respective houses in turn, and talking over
with each other what they had read, and also
bringing with them books which they looked
over together.

“ On hearing this the teacher asked whether
they would not like to have her meet with them.
And they at once said that they would be de-
lighted to have her do this. So, once a week,
with breaks now and then, of course, this
teqcher has met these interested pupils, under
what are certainly among the most favorable
circumstances possible, and her intelligent in-
fluence has had an opportunity of weighing for
much more than it otherwise would.

“ Both teacher and pupils speak enthusiasti-
cally of this weekly ‘ conference.’ I like this
idea, because it is so thoroughly direct and
personal.”

Alluding to a “ list of suggestions,” printed
for the use of the pupils, mention of which was
made in Miss Hewins’ report, Mr. Foster says :
“ It is very evident, from the use which has been
made of the library during the past year, that
those suggestions are beginning to bear fruit.
Particularly in the case of the reference-books
I have noticed a very striking advance. The
pupils come to the library either singly, or sev-
eral at a time, — more frequently the latter, —
and I very soon see them at some table, studi-
ously threading their way through cyclopaedias,
dictionaries, gazetteers, etc., with their refer-
ences back and forth, until they have found the

information desired. And it is noteworthy
that I never have had occasion to correct any
breaches of order in connection with this use
of the library (unless it be somewhat too ani-
mated and audible consultation on their part) .
Their real interest in the investigation has pre-
served them from that.

“ Sometimes it is a teacher who comes with
pupils, and takes pains to induct them into the
principles of investigation. Sometimes, also, a
teacher, coming to the library entirely on his or
her own account, has found some pupil busy
in the reference department, and has gladly
stopped to enter into the spirit of the research,
and give serviceable hints.”

Of his own connection with this invaluable
practice on the part of the pupils, Mr. Foster
says nothing, save that his aid has been ren-
dered only so far as seemed “ called for” ; that
he “ has in no way interfered, while all the time
watching the process with intense interest.”
But he adds, “ I think they all understand
that they are at perfect liberty to appeal to the
librarian, when they find it necessary, and that
they will find me interested.”

He also mentions the gratifying fact that
“there has been a very noticeable increase in
the extent to which the parents of school-
children interest themselves in the reading of
their children, and the extent to which they per-
sonally come to the library to consult the libra-
rian and to inform themselves as to the matter.”

Mr. Foster sums up his communications by
saying that “ The other phases of the work, in
Providence, touched upon by Miss Hewins, in
her report last year, are still true of the situa-
tion at present, only intensified and developed.”

Miss Hewins, librarian of the Hartford Li-
brary Association, whose little book is so full
of wisdom, original and selected, and whose
heart is so thoroughly bound up in the best
interests of children, makes this semi-humorous
record of her experience : “My first impression
when your card came was to send you nothing
but a short and pithy quotation from St. An-
thony’s sermon to the fishes : —

“ ‘ The pikes went on stealing,

The eels went on eeling,

Much delighted were they,

But preferred the old way.’

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“ On second thoughts, however, I can report a
little advance in public feeling and interest con-
cerning the books which children read. Of
course, ever so many kind things have been
said to me about ‘ Books for the Young*; but
the boys have not left off their Optic, Alger,
and Castlemon, or the girls their Elsie and
Mrs. Holmes. However, there are a few fathers
and mothers who ask me to give their children
no books which I do not approve, and the
children themselves are growing into the way
of asking me for a book when they do not
know what they want. Our policy is to buy
all the children’s books that are worth buying,
and to keep the supply of the poor ones as low
as possible. Of course a subscription library
has not the freedom of a public one in that
respect.

“ We are never too busy to help children, or
anybody else, in looking for information on
special subjects. For more than two years I
have pulled the wires of a chapter of the Agassiz
Association, which has from fifteen to twenty
members, boys and girls, from nine to thirteen ;
and I always recommend at our meetings,
which are held in the reading-room, except in
good weather for field-work, any new book on
birds or insects, with occasional references to
old ones.

“ The teachers in a girls’ school here are good
friends of mine, and send their literature classes
to me for material. I have twice given talks to
the girls on books. The first was a handful of
very fragmentary suggestions as to good novels
and other books a few years older than the
generation now growing up. I left a list to be
copied, and some of the girls have followed it
conscientiously.

“Not long ago I read them a paper on the
origin and migration of fables, with references
to folk-lore and collections of stories, some of
which have been asked for.

“ Our bulletins have usually brief mention of,
or marks against, the best new books for chil-
dren. I have put Henty’s books for boys into the
library this year, and find that they are hardly
ever on the shelves. I think the historical
ones very good. ‘ Out on the Pampas ’ is a
little more sensational, like Kingston’s books.
I took Thornes and Pinkerton off the shelves

long ago. They are asked for once in a while,
but not very often.

“ I wish that 1 could tell you of great re.sults,
and that the children of Hartford had walked in
procession to the Park, and there, Savonarola-
like, burned their idols, Alger, Optic, Castle-
mon, and Elsie ; but, unfortunately, my regard
for truth prevents any such statement.”

In the absence of Miss James, librarian of
the Newton Free Library, the assistant-librarian
writes briefly: “We are very particular about
the books we place in the library, always hav-
ing them first read by some competent person,
and we are quite careful not to put before the
children books of an exciting or injurious char-
acter.”

Mr. Green, of the Free Public Library of
Worcester, Mass., says in his note : “ We have
bought but few exciting books, and have tried
to meet the demand for wholesome books pre-
pared for boys and girls. The teachers of the
public schools have rendered much aid in intro-
ducing good books to children.”

In December, 1882, the Trustees of the
Cambridge Public Library reported in this
wise : —

“So far as we know there is not in the li-
brary any immoral book. . . . The trustees feel
it their duty to satisfy, so far as their means
allow, the proper tastes of the different classes
in the community ; but they cannot take the
place of parents and teachers and reach indi-
viduals. They can act only in a general way,
by carefully selecting the books which they offer
to the public, and by furnishing guides to the
best and most profitable literature.

“ With the cooperation of the teachers and
parents of the city it is undoubtedly possible to
improve the reading of the young. We observe
that the school committee has just passed an
order instructing the superintendent of schools
to prepare a list of books suitable for the pupils,
both for general reading and in connection with
their courses of study. We hope that this
measure may prove successful in drawing the
attention of our school children from stories of
mere passing interest to works of biography,
travels, history, and standard literature, not
less entertaining, and of lasting benefit. We
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be made to us, to assist in carrying out this
purpose, so far as lies in our power.”

Miss Hayward, the librarian of this Cam-
bridge library, writes to this effect : “ Children

whose parents are indifferent to their mental
health read too much. Many of our infant
patrons draw a book each day in the week, and
no doubt a Sunday-school book on Sunday.
We issue cards to none under fourteen ; but
this rule is made a dead letter by children
using their parents’ cards. I have tried to per-
suade my trustees to limit the issue of juvenile
books to Saturdays and Wednesdays, but they
say, ‘ We have no right to limit thus a free
public library.’

“ After all, the responsibility falls back upon
the parents, where it truly belongs. ... I often
wish, since I cannot limit their days, that the
children had a room to themselves, where the
juvenile books should be issued and returned,
and where an attendant might come into direct
contact with the children and aid them to a
wise choice of books. I think every conscien-
tious librarian must wish to do this ; but in the
rush and confusion of regular work this is often
impossible. I always make it a point to give
out ^"good book when I am asked to select for
any one.”

Miss Chandler, librarian at Lancaster, Mass.,
thus responds : —

“I can think of nothing in which we differ
from many other libraries in our treatment of
children. We try to be especially careful in our
purchases of juvenile works. We have bought
none of Oliver Optic’s books for eleven years',
but the twenty-eight volumes which were in the
library in 1872 have been allowed to remain,
and they form 2 per cent, of the fiction cir-
culated. ... A great deal of fault is to be
found with parents in this connection. Intel-
ligent people will complain that their children
read too many stories, and yet they do not take
any trouble to prevent it.

“ lam constantly called upon for assistance in
the selection of reading for children, and of
course use the utmost care in the selection, not
only in books for their amusement, but in
hunting up any school references for which they
may come to me. . . . Miss Hewins’ little
book is of the greatest value, both to children

directly, and indirectly through selections made
from it by careful parents. I also use Mr.
Larned’s ‘ Books for young Readers,’ though it
does not agree with our catalogue as fre-
quently as Miss Hewins’.

‘ ‘ I have, in many cases, seen great improvement
in reading, where I have been able to observe
individuals for a number of years. For instance,
the young man who studies Scott most eagerly
now, I think must have read ‘ Through by
Daylight ’ a dozen times when he was in school.
Another young fellow, who once asked me to
select a good book for him, and specified that
there ‘ must not be anything true in it,’ now
drives me almost into the last extremity with
the odd questions which he frequently brings
for settlement.

“ If the number of children who frequent the
library is any evidence, then my efforts meet
with popular approval, the room sometimes
presenting the appearance of an infant school.
‘ Do you want this book for yourself or your
father?’ I asked a little girl whose chin rested
on the edge of my desk, and who had asked me
to select something. ‘ I want it for myself,’
she said ; ‘ but father reads ’em sometimes, so
I guess it ’ll have to be kind-er nice.''

“These little straws encourage me in feeling
that I am somewhere near the right track, so I
keep on, with what patience I may.”

Mr. Kite, librarian of the Friends’ Free
Library, Germantown, Pa., writes: —

“The first idea we would advance is, that
little ones prefer true stories. Any one who
has gathered a few children, of from three to
six years old, round him or her, and undertaken
to tell them stories, has soon been met, if the
tale were marvellous, with the questions ‘Is that
true?’ ‘Did it really happen?’ Now, in
selecting books for little dots, if we were to bear
this love of truth in mind, we would greatly
more interest them in their first books, and give
a moral bent to their minds that might be of a
life-time blessing. ... For very little ones
we would select those books which tell simple,
truthful, or, as in Abbott’s Rollo works and
Franconia series, truth-like little stories. And
our experience runs with our theories. . . .
We need not specify the works for these
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this idea of their love for truthful stories, select
and read with them such works. ... As soon
as the habit of reading to themselves is estab-
lished, children will be found to be drawn to
Natural History, and early to take practical
interest in its first lessons. Thence the step is
an easy one to juvenile works of biography,
Charlotte Yonge’s juvenile histories, and kin-
dred productions. . . .

“ With a well-selected library, chosen with
the idea of truthful progress, we believe the love
for the fiction., which is so demoralizing to the
youthful mind, may be kept in abeyance, and
the children grow up with a well-established
appreciation of trained thought, ready early to
take hold mentally of the truths of science, and
in due time become men and women fitted for
the duties of life ; educated to appreciate what
they encounter, either in their studies or life’s
experiences, and to act understandingly in life’s
emergencies.

“These are not mere untested generalities.
Under our system of excluding from our readers
the exciting literature commonly known as
fiction we have had these problems to meet, and
have found our views entirely practical and the
results satisfactory.”

Mr. Houghton, of the Public Library at Lynn,
Mass., writes: “ In common with other public
libraries we have given the matter especial
attention during the year. Our rules require
persons to be fourteen years of age before they
can receive books from the library. They also
limit the pupils of our schools to one book a
week. This is, I think, a salutary check upon
the tendency to choose unsuitable books, as
well as upon the superficial reading of many
unobjectionable ones in a short time.

“ Of course, all possible assistance is given to
our young people in the selection of their
reading. . . . We furnish a special book-list for
the schools ; we discourage the reading of
stories, and introduce works of science, travel,
history, and biography into the homes of our
people. We do not exclude novels, believing
that there are many useful books in this class,
and that we have many readers who will be
benefited by them. In short, we try to take
human nature as we find it, and then work
upon it in the way which seems best, in view

of the peculiar circumstances in each individual
case. We aim to develop a taste for reading,
and at the same time to raise the standard to
the highest practicable point.”

Just here let me say that I believe the Lynn
Library has hit a fundamental truth, and applied
the sovereign remedy, — so far as the question
concerns public libraries, — in its “ one-book-a-
week ” rule.

Mrs. Buncher, of the Manchester City
Library, expresses her gratification at “ the
provision being made by writers and publish-
ers for the interest and improvement of this
large class of readers, especially in the increas-
ing number of books of travel, history, and the
like, written in a style adapted to their under-
standing and illustrated in such a manner as to
interest and instruct; ” and adds, “ I am par-
ticularly pleased to see how ready our young
people are to receive them.”

Mr. Wight, ex-librarian of the Morse Insti-
tute Library, Natick, Mass., says: “Book-
making, and especially of the juvenile and
fictitious class, has become gigantic, if not
alarming. Far better if we had one-fourth the
amount, improved fourfold in quality. . . . Too
many feel that they must write a book ; hence
the flood, doing more damage, I fear, than those
of wind and water, which are physical and
temporary.” As a protection against this
flood, his advice is to “ keep a small selection
of the very best books for the young constantly
before their eyes,” and to “ secure the cooper-
ation of school-teachers and school committees
with librarians and trustees,” for the purpose
of securing “ purchase, as well as the loan-
ing, of only the best books for this class of
readers.”

In the report of Mr. Whitney, librarian of
the Watertown Free Public Library, I find the
following : —

“ Much is being done to help the young form
good habits of reading and to direct them to
helpful books. Mr. John T. Prince, who,
besides fulfilling the duties of superintendent of
schools, both in this town and in Waltham,
serves on the board of trustees for the
Free Public Library of Waltham, has been,
instrumental in preparing a catalogue of con-
siderable extent for the children of Waltham.

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This catalogue contains the titles and numbers
of such of the books of their library as in his
opinion, and also in the opinion of several
critics whom he has consulted, may be used
with safety and with profit by the children of
the public schools. This is an earnest and an
honest attempt to meet the difficulties which
beset this subject. We have an opportunity to
try whether this mode of operation is helpful
or not, and at small expense of money or labor.
I have suggested that the teachers of our
schools be furnished with these catalogues, also
that several copies be furnished to the library,
to be prepared for our use by writing opposite
the titles the numbers which the corresponding
books bear on our shelves, so that any book
called for from this catalogue can at once be
found.

“ It would be well, also, if parents were fur-
nished with copies, which would help them to
help their children in the choice of books. If
all interested should unite their efforts to lead
children to read books in which they would be
greatly interested, and also greatly benefited,
people would begin to see what a power for
good a public library might be to the com-
munity.”

Mr. Watson, of the Portland Public Library,
writes : —

“ I do not think I have anything to com-
municate of especial interest; however, I will
mention the fact that we are dropping from our
library all juvenile books of the ‘ Optic ’ class,
and are trying to replace them with books
which leave better impressions of history,
geography, travel, or science, after reading.”

The last report of the trustees of the Beebe
Town Library, of Wakefield, Mass., asserts
that “ the selection of fiction and juvenile
books is the most delicate of all the duties we
are called upon to perform.” And says, in
substance, “We have to remember that
students are not to be preferred above humble
readers ; that every one has his preferences, and
that the library is not designed for exclusive
use, or the gratification of any one taste.”

That “it must be remembered that, under
the guise of fiction, . sometimes the finest
pictures of life and manners are represented,
and lessons of duty taught and conveyed to

mind and heart”; that “almost invariably
the young seek light works first, and, in after
years, more solid mental diet. Milk for babes ;
meat for strong men. It is, therefore, desirable
to attract youth to our library, for he who
commences reading young usually clings to
the habit through life, finding therein a really
inexhaustible fountain of pleasure.”

Mr. Beardsley, librarian of the Public
School Library, at Cleveland, Ohio, writes : —

“When I took charge of the library there
must have been on the shelves from three to
four hundred volumes of Oliver Optic, which,
of course, were read almost to the exclusion of
all other juvenile books.

“ Receiving, in one instance, a complaint from
a parent that his boy, twelve years old, was
injuring himself from reading, I made examina-
tion, and found that he had drawn thirty-nine
volumes of Optic in a single month. I have
never been in favor of that kind of reading, and
for many years have bought none, and it is
now nearly all worn out. . . .

‘ ‘ I have tried for several years to get the
teachers interested, and prescribe to some
extent what should be read by the scholars
under their charge ; but could not succeed in
getting any concerted action. Where a
teacher did interest herself in this respect, it
could be seen at once in the drawings.”

The librarian of the Public Library at
Somerville, Mass., Miss Adams, says: “Our
magazines for the juveniles are first in demand,
and though we have duplicates of many of them
they are seldom allowed to remain on the shelves
over night; we are obliged to limit their
circulation and only allow one copy to a family.
. . . We have books by Abbott, Cooper, Bal-
lantyne, Kellogg, Fosdick; and these, with the
Rollo books, furnish our juveniles an abundant
supply to satisfy their natural love of adventure.
We have .never had one complaint from a
parent that our books were otherwise than
approved, and as our library is over ten years
old, and has a circulation of over sixty thousand
a year, there has certainly been time enough
in which to complain. In my opinion parents
are entirely responsible, and should know and
examine every book read at home. ... In
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schools not to keep, I know that our small
room will be filled with children, for, though
we are on a hill, from half to three quarters of
a mile from any school (except the High
School) , no stofm keeps them away, nor is the
snow ever too deep, or the path up hill too
slippery, to keep them from the library table,
where they sit silent and absorbed.

“Our regulations say that those of the age of
fourteen may use the reading-room ; but, alas !
we have no reading-room, and the juveniles
enjoy reading at the table so much that I have
not the heart to send them away, and the only
requirements that I make are clean hands and
a quiet deportment. . . . These youngest of our
readers take out a great many books, and
perhaps do not read them all ; but they thus
acquire the habit of reading, which sooner or
later develops into a love of books, thus giving
them one unfailing resource through life.”

Miss Whitney, librarian at Concord, Mass.,
avers that “ the help given to children is so
purely a matter of personal help, without any
particular plan, that there seems nothing to tell.
I do little in that line that any librarian who
comes in contact with children, and who has
the time and is interested in the work, would
refuse to do ; consequently that would come
under the head of qualifications of librarian
rather than aids to juvenile readers, unless,
indeed, the librarian is one of the more impor-
tant aids.”

Miss Stevens, librarian of the Public Library
of Toledo, Ohio, reiterates her belief in the
“person who likes children” as the needful
library factor in the solution of this vexed
question. Her letter very kindly calls my
attention to a newspaper article upon “ Juvenile
Reading and the Public Library,” written last
winter by Mrs. Jermain, the assistant librarian.
This article, containing many sensible reflec-
tions well worth perusal, aims mainly to empha-
size the duty and responsibility which devolves
upon communities in relation to this problem.
A local application evidently attaches to some
of her points, yet the paper, as a whole, has
much general interest. A few citations will
perhaps show its drift, although they fail to
do it justice. Thus she says ; “ Our youth are,
for the greater part, readers in some sort. Of

good things if circumstances have gone aright.
Of pernicious things if circumstances have gone
amiss in this matter.” Again: “Like the
Afrite of Eastern story, which arose from the
fisherman’s casket, the genie of letters, released
from its long imprisonment, has developed into
such sudden and enormous proportions, has
become in some respects so unmanageable a
fact, it is not surprising that occasionally we
find the thoughtful man and the ignorant man
alike regarding this wonderful power with
dismay.

“ Still, as letters are an acknowledged power,
it is evident that, as communities and individuals,
our responsibility is to adapt these means to
their destined ends. And while those parents
and guardians who have the selection of read-
ing for their youthful charges under their own
control are in such small minority, it seems all
the more necessary that public sentiment should
conspire to do the work which indifferent and
injudicious parents and guardians do not at-
tempt. . . .

“ Every breeze that blows wafts to our door-
steps the wildest extravagances in illustration
and story. As the street Arab sits on the
curb-stone, during the intervals of his daily
traffic, he indulges in the adventures of ‘ Six-
fingered Jack, the Border Ruffian,’ and upon
this model of life and character his ambitions
of manliness and courage are formed. The
school-boy takes his first initiative in insubor-
dination to teachers and parents from the law-
less career of ‘ Jack Harkaway,’ or some one
of the boy-heroes of the ‘ Wide Awake Boys of
America ’ ; while the school-girl, who has not
had her taste and sentiment directed aright,
imbibes rank poison from the ‘ Fireside Com-
panion,’ as she follows the absurd freaks of a
‘ Wilful Goldie.’ Comments upon such a lit-
erature are not necessary. Doubtless many
boys pass through such intellectual indulgence
and become good citizens. Healthy home in-
fluence may serve to avert much of this harm.
But that reading of this sort is bad for any boy,
that it is doing an incalculable amount of mis-
chief, and is especially harmful to boys who are
not protected in a measure by healthy influ-
ences, who shall deny?

“Now, there is no need that our boys and

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girls should indulge in reading of this sort. A
healthy press is supplying healthy books in
sufficient abundance to satisfy the appetite of
the most omniverous reader. The most brill-
iant and best writers of our time are engaged
in writing books for the young, which exceed
in interest and excitement of narrative these
nerveless and pernicious romances.

“ With all due recognition of the proneness
of the human mind for evil, it may be safely as-
serted that the average boy and girl enjoys
books that are healthy and instructive quite as
well as books that are unhealthy and uninstruc-
tive, providing always that these are equally
interesting.

“ Evidently if reading of this sort is to be had
freely, and public sentiment unites in encour-
aging our youth hitherward, half the battle is
won. If it be the office of our public schools
to create the scholar, to awaken an interest in
literature, if it be the office of teacher, parent,
and guardian, to direct this taste aright, it
should certainly be the business of the commu-
nity to see that a sufficient supply of good books
and interesting books be freely accessible.”

Prof. Peck, of the Levi Parsons Library,
Gloversville, N.Y., a new institution of but
three years’ standing, and containing less than
6,000 volumes, says, in his third report: “I
consider it of great importance to record here
the fact that our library has been extensively
used by the school children, under proper guid-
ance of their teachers. Not only have the
scholars of different grades been directed to
find information with regard to topics selected
by their teachers, but they come weekly in
search of quotations from noted authors, and
have made themselves familiar with the biog-
raphy of the same. Here they have found
pieces for their weekly declamatory exercises,
and aid in their composition work. . . .
Classes of children from the Grammar depart-
ment have visited our rooms, and have exam-
ined, under my guidance and instruction, some
of our engravings, and were required to write
compositions on their observations. . . . The
teachers of the lower grades have taken out
books for the use of their scholars, and by
reading aloud to their classes, as well as by
placing good books in the hands of their schol-

ars, have aided in forming and encouraging
habits of good reading. In my double rela-
tion of teacher and librarian I have, in my own
classes, always called their attention to such
books as would aid them. Frequently I have
required my scholars to find out for themselves
certain facts having connection with the lessons
taught, in order to accustom them to acquire
knowledge independently, and to cultivate in
them the power of original investigation.

“ I have also visited every school-room, and
invited the children to frequent the reading-
room, and directed them in the proper use of
books, and endeavored to discourage aimless
reading, which I consider worse than no
reading, as it is only a pastime.”

Mr. Lamed, of the Young Men’s Library of
this city, writes: “We are taking pains to
improve all the time our provision of reading
for the young, in quality and extent ; but we
have done nothing that can be noted.”

Mr. Perkins, of the San Francisco Free
Public Library, sends a postal card, saying :
“ Ican’tfurnish anything, I am sorry to say, on
juvenile reading.

“The young folks here (as elsewhere) want
sensational books, and take all they can get.
I have had no time thus far to take any
measures towards guiding the choice of books.”

Miss Ames, whose work in organizing and
cataloguing libraries, is so thoroughly practical
and conscientious, says: “In making pur-
chasing lists for the various departments of a
library, I find that more time and thought are
necessary for a good selection of juvenile
reading than for any other department. But, as
‘ prevention is better than cure,’ it seems to
me a much wiser and infinitely more satisfactory
use of time to learn what to reject than to add
questionable books to a library, and then break
into lamentation and weeping because the
children will read them.”

At the Brookline Public Library we have had
occasion to realize the force of Miss Hewins’
application of the sermon to the fishes, with here
and there a gleam of light.

Early last autumn a little circular was sent to
every teacher in our public schools, extending,
and defining anew, certain special privileges
for their school-work. It is somewhat dis-

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coiiraging to be compelled to report that, while
several teachers availed themselves of these
privileges in a measure, only one used them to
their fullest extent. Yet our faith in the
ultimate result of our good intent is not dead.

Thus I have submitted the story of library
experiences for the past year, showing, as I think
you will all admit, a remarkable unanimity of
purpose, and not infrequently of method in
dealing with this vital question. If I read these
returns aright, we are all agreed that children
read too much, and that it is largely the fault of
their elders. We are agreed that greater care
ought to be exercised in the selection and
purchase of books for their use, and the utmost
pains taken in the guidance of their choice of
reading matter. We are agreed that better
books are being written for young people, and
that our crusade shall be carried on by wisely
substituting these for the sensational variety.
We are agreed that a happy combination of

school and library influences may do much to
rectify the baleful tendency of aimless reading
by teaching children what and how to read.
We are agreed that children themselves are sus-
ceptible to good advice in matters of reading,
and may be easily influenced by persons whom
they love and respect, be they parents, teachers,
or librarians ; that parents awaken but slowly to
the weight of responsibility which rests with
them in this matter, and this missing element
of parental influence is the one sad lack of the
cause we plead; that teachers, as a rule, have
not yet developed the enthusiasm necessary for
effectual work with their pupils in this direction,
although the exceptional cases above quoted
give rare promise of what may be done ; that
librarians must therefore continue to carry the
war into the enemy’s camp, and by their very
intrepidity enlist parents and teachers to their
standard until the day is won.

THE USEFULNESS OF LIBRARIES IN SMALL TOWNS.

BY MISS THERESA H. WEST, MILWAUKEE PUBLIC LIBRARY.

There is still, as in the days when the story
of the “wicked and slothful servant,”
who contemptuously hid his one talent in a
napkin, was told, something discouraging- in
the sight of incomparably greater opportunities
than our own in the hands of another.

The librarian of a small town or village may
not cherish the envy of the man in the para-
ble in his heart, and yet feel a certain depres-
sion, a sense that the small things he is striving
— perhaps with all his might — to accomplish
amount to very little, as he listens to plans for
the construction of a building which will com-
modiously and conveniently house two millions
of books ; as he ponders over a printed scheme
which will intelligently order upon the shelves
a hundred thousand volumes, and is yet so
flexible, so elastic, that this number may be
indefinitely increased with no confusion, no
necessity for re-arrangement; as he sees a
method of charging which has been slowly
evolved to meet the ever-varying, ever-increas-

ing needs of a circulation whose daily issues
are counted by thousands.

Possibly this feeling has something to do
with the small representation in this Associa-
tion of the hundreds of lesser libraries which
are scattered through the land. Whether it
has, or not, the fact of this meagre representa-
tion remains, and remains to be regretted.
That such a state of things is to be deprecated
by the society goes without saying. Every
new member, in one way or another, brings an
added power and influence, which is by no
means always to be measured by the size of the
library which he represents, or the active part
he bears in the deliberations. He may even be
utterly silent, and yet an actual force ; for no
speaker fails to feel the inspiration which radi-
ates from an attentive and enthusiastic listener.
In ordinary society the accomplishment of
being “ a good listener” is one of the most
enduring of charms. It does not lose its
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paper as truly as a jest’s “ lies in the ear of him
that hears it, never in the tongue of him that
makes it.”

To ask these unattached librarians, if perhaps
an echo may reach them, to consider whether
their isolation from their profession is not only
a deprivation to themselves which they can illy
afford, but a retarding of the progress of the true
library spirit as well, and to suggest a thought
which may possibly prove a stimulus to coun-
teract the discouragement and depression before
spoken of, is all that I have even hoped to
accomplish in the few words which have, some-
what too ambitiously, been called a paper on
“ The usefulness of libraries in small towns.”

In regard to the interest and profit of these
meetings to the lesser libraries, I have heard it
asserted, and it is, I think, true, that the papers
and discussions were almost exclusively directed
to the consideration of the aims, methods, and
needs of great libraries. If the fact needs
explanation, or justification, an ample one is
found in the register of the names of the com-
posing members, with their positions. That
there would be a ready and cordial response to
any general call for the discussion of topics
specially pertinent to small libraries is not to be
doubted. Over the editorial columns of one
of our most-used periodicals runs the legend,
“Every man is a debtor to his profession.”
It was a most wise ^choice of mottoes by our
friend, the editor and publisher, for in no pro-
fession is it more true than in our own. The
constant missionary work which Boston and
Chicago, and indeed every library of any repute
in the country, has done and is doing, is proof
enough that the obligation is appreciated. If
the smaller libraries want the discussion of
simpler, less technical methods, they have,
probably, but to ask.

It may be objected that the great obviously
includes the small, and that plans and methods
which are good and suitable for the former need
but to be reproduced in miniature for the latter.
It is true that, in many departments, the acci-
dent of size makes little or no difference in
library economy ; but in the administration of
affairs, in the machinery of running, the director
of a municipal library has many and accumu-
lating cares, of which his less burdened rural

brother need never feel the weight. Prof. John
Fisk, some years ago, at the time when he was
assistant librarian of Harvard University, very
graphically described a portion of the perplex-
ing duties which fall to the lot of even a univer-
sity librarian, striving to correct the erroneous
but too prevalent notion that such a position
is a sinecitre. He confined himself to an enu-
meration and description of the duties which
are essentially professional, the multiplicity of
details of the ordering, classifying, and catalog-
ing of books. In this direction there is a differ-
ence only in amount between the greater and
the less. But, in addition to all that Prof. Fisk
described, a city librarian must needs oversee as
well the thousand and one 7ninutice which go
to make up the sum of a day’s work in a circu-
lating library. He must provide for the accu-
rate identification and registration of his
borrowers, — no light task when they number
tens of thousands of the floating population of a
western city, who has more active duties for her
police than the following up of delinquent pat-
rons of the public library. He must see to it
that the thousands of books which flow over
his counters are unerringly charged, and that
tardy borrowers are warned of their remissness.
These are but a few of the numberless details,
many of which are trivial in the extreme, but
which all go toward the making up of such a
day’s work as “ none but he that feels it knows.”
As a machine increases in complications a con-
stantly greater percentage of power is consumed
in overcoming friction. This attention to the
routine of daily work, which forms much of the
severest, because least satisfying, work which a
librarian does, may be compared to the friction
of machinery ; and just in the proportion that
the power of his mind and the strength of his
body are taxed in this direction, by just so
much are they reduced for other duties, the im-
portance of which is specially prominent in the
minds not only of the profession, but of the pub-
lic as well, — an actual knowledge of the books
which the library buys, and the exertion of an
active personal influence in raising the standard
of literature which is drawn from the library.

It is precisely in this line of personal influ-
ence that there seem to me to be special en-
couragements to the librarians of small towns.

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that here, notwithstanding their limited resour-
ces, they have peculiar opportunities for attain-
ing an almost ideal standard of excellence in
the quality of their work.

It would be unjust to say that a city librarian
actually works harder than his counti'y brother.
The duties of the former are mainly those of
guiding, overseeing, and correcting the work of
others. The latter, with his own hands and
brain, does most of the work himself. It is as if
the one were architect solely, and the other not
only architect, but mason and carpenter as well.
One of the severest trials of the lot of a city
librarian, at the West at least, is that he must
work through many assistants who are not only
utterly lacking in any real love or enthusiasm
for their work, but who are many times illy-edu-
cated as well. The remedy for this state of af-
fairs is not likely to be found until our boards
of trustees take for their careful consideration
the reply of a certain irate domestic to her re-
monstrating mistress: “You can’t expect a
good cook and all the Christian virtues for two
dollars a week ! ” If the necessities of the
work do not require the employment of more
than one, two, or, at most, three assistants, the
subtle electric current of the librarian’s own
enthusiasm may suffer the subdivision without
being utterly dissipated. He can actually do
jnuch of the work himself. He comes into con-
tact with his clientage, which is not so large but
that he may hope to become personally ac-
quainted with many of them, and, learning their
tastes and needs, easily become their trusted
friend and guide. His catalog, too, is his own
work, and it is perhaps safe to say that no one
ever properly appreciates a catalog but its

maker. Certainly no one else ever handles it
with equal ease and intelligence.

I am afraid the catalog has never been made,
and never will be, over which the ignorant and
indolent will not be perplexed and deceived ; and,
after all is said, it is to the ignorant to whom
the gospel of the public library is specially sent.
If the cataloger himself is constantly at hand to
explain intricacies, to supplement deficiencies,
with his own perfect knowledge of his library,
to answer even foolish and stumbling question-
ers patiently and intelligently, he may make the
puzzling way of finding and getting a book so
plain that “ The wayfaring man, though a fool,
need not err therein.”

That this personal influence, when exerted,
bears fruit, and that right soon, has been proved
again and again. The following is from the
last report of one of the largest libraries in the
country: “The increasing public interest in
the more scholarly books of the Library, and
the large accession of visitors to the reference
tables, are to be attributed partly to the Satur-
day-morning classes which have been conducted
at the Library for the past four months.” If
such work makes so immediate and appreciable
an impression upon a circulation which is num-
bered by hundreds of thousands, is there not a
hopeful outlook, indeed, for small workers ?

One has said that “ A library is, after all, very
much what its librarian makes it.” There are
too many conflicting individualities at work in
a municipal library to make this, to any consid-
erable extent, true ; but in a small town or vil-
lage the personal equation of the librarian may
easily become the exponent of the power of the
library.

REPORT ON LIBRARIES AND SCHOOLS.

BY SAMUEL S. GREEN, LIBRARIAN OF THE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY,
WORCESTER, MASS.

''HE writers of the papers on this subject, as
I understand the wishes of the committee
which has had the charge of making prepara-
tions for the present meeting, are desired to
describe briefly the work they have done as

librarians, in connection with schools, and to
make such general remarks as their experiences
may suggest.

It seems to me that the first thing which a
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work is to make the acquaintance of the super-
intendent of schools, and of the teachers, and
offer freely to aid them in the furtherance of
any of their projects. He needs to find out
from them the ways in which they think he can
help them, and to suggest to them for consid-
eration such plans for cooperative work as it
seems to him desirable and practicable to adopt.

Hearty cooperation was brought about in
Worcester, in a conference of the superintend-
ent of schools, the principal of the Normal
School (an institution which supplies the public
schools with a large portion of their teachers) ,
and the librarian of the Public Library, and by
one or two meetings of teachers at which the
librarian was present.

The teachers and scholars now understand
that we consider it a very important part of our
work to attend to their wants.

In describing the work done in Worcester, I
will use two headings, giving under one an ac-
count of what has been accomplished by allow-
ing books to be taken to school-houses, and
under the other a record of work done by the
use of books within the library building.

Several phases of the former kind of work
have been set forth in a paper which I read be-
fore the American Social Science Association,
at a meeting held in Saratoga, September 8,
1880, which was printed afterwards in the
Library journal, Vol. 5, Nos. 9-10, in the
Journal of Social Science, December, 1880,
and in a pamphlet ; and a considerable portion of
the latter kind of work is described in the same
paper and in a yearly report entitled, “ Aids
and Guides for Readers,” presented at the last
meeting of this Association, and printed in the
Library journal, Vol. 7, Nos. 7-8.

The first mentioned paper, the portion of the
report which relates to the subject now under
consideration, and several of the best papers
which give the experiences of other educators,
have been collected into a little volume entitled
“ Libraries and Schools,” which I edited, at the
request of Frederick Leypoldt, of New York,
and which he published a few months since.

In regard to the work done by means of
books taken to school buildings, it must be prem-
ised that every teacher is allowed to have a
Teacher’s card, on which six books needed for

study or school-work may be taken out of the
library, and a Pupil’s card, on which twelve
volumes may be taken out for the use of
scholars.

Many of the scholars, too, are old enough
to have cards of their own, and have such
cards.

In general, it may be said that the books
taken out are used by teachers in acquiring in-
formation in regard to subjects which they
have to teach and in making the studies of
pupils more interesting and profitable than they
would otherwise be.

Books describing countries studied about in
the geography lessons, for the use of both
teachers and scholars, are in large demand.

Many duplicates are needed in supplying this
demand, and such as are needed are always
bought.

Books from the library are much used in
reading at sight in the Grammar Schools.
Many are used by scholars in this grade of
schools who have learned their lessons quickly,
and have time for reading to themselves.
Children are allowed to take books home from
school for a night, a day or two, or for several
days.

In the High School many books are used in
connection with the study of English literature
and history.

If, to take an example, the scholars are to
study Longfellow or Irving, the publisher of the
works of the author selected gets out a special
edition of some of the poems of the one, or of
some of the sketches of the other, and every
pupil buys a copy of the pamphlet at a low
price.

But the library has to afford assistance, also.
I shall speak presently of the aid afforded
within the library building. Now, I am de-
scribing work done by means of books sent to
the school building. The principal of the
school finds, for example, that he needs a half-
dozen copies of some complete work of an
author which scholars are studying. These are
bought for him as soon as his wishes are made
known, if copies enough do not belong to the
library already. Last term we furnished two
or three copies of each of three of Hawthorne’s
long stories. The Principal reports that the

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“ House with Seven Gables ” was read through
by fourteen scholars, “ Mosses from an Old
Manse,” by ten, and the “Marble Faun” by
fifteen persons, in connection with the study of
the special edition, which consisted of a selec-
tion from the “Twice Told Tales.” Some of the
scholars also had access to some of Hawthorne’s
works in their homes and others used the
copies in the circulating and reference depart-
ments of the Public Library.

An account was given in the report already
referred to as having been made to this Asso-
ciation a year ago last May of work which was
being done in the High School by means of
copies of translations of the “ Iliad” and “ Odys-
sey,” furnished by the library. The Principal
reports that the results of this work were very
satisfactory.

It is a very common occurrence for a teacher
to send a scholar to the librai’y for a specified
book, or more generally for a book to give in-
formation on a certain subject in which interest
has been excited in the school to be taken to
the school-building, to be read to the interested
scholars or to be used by them.

Perhaps 25 books at a time will be se-
lected by the librarian or a teacher and sent to
the High School to illustrate the history of a
country.

I estimate that 5 50 books have been in use
in the school buildings every day that the
schools have been open during the year begin-
ning July I, 1882, and ending June 30, 1883.

During the months from February to June,
1883, inclusive, over 700 volumes, it is esti-
mated, were in daily use.

These figures do not represent, of course,
the whole number of volumes used for school
purposes, outside the library building, or within
the school buildings, for many of the older
pupils, as stated before, have cards of their
own, which they use in taking out books to give
them aid in their studies.

Incidentally, the teachers of the schools are
doing very considerable service in showing
children that there is an abundance of whole-
some books which are at the same time inter-
esting.

In the Worcester Normal School there is in-
cluded in the course of study an opportunity for

a “ systematic observation of schools and actual
practice in teaching.” While doing this work
the pupils are called apprentices.

“ Each student serves in at least three grades
of schools in the course of his term of service,
the duration of which is six months, or half a
school year,” and “ each apprentice keeps a
diary of the occupation and experience of every
day’s service.”

From one of these diaries I make the follow-
ing extracts : —

May 16, 1881. “ Miss sent to the Pub-

lic Library for a basket of books which she had
selected. Sometimes, when scholars have
learned their lessons, the teacher tells them to
go to the bookcase and take these books to read ;
and those who are not behindhand in their les-
sons can have one charged, and take it home.

“ Had a little time during the drawing-lesson
to read Harper's Magazine, which the teacher
brought to me, so that I might see the pictures
of the humming-birds that were in it ”

Wednesday, May 18, 1881. “Looked up
several things that I wanted to know, — among
Emerson’s poems, ‘The Rhodora’ and ‘The
Sphinx ’ ; Longfellow’s ‘ Tides ’ ; in Edward
Samuels’s ‘ Birds of New England,’ the habits
of the barn-swallow and the chimney-swallow ;
in The Young Folks' Encyclopedia, the account
of the juniper-.tree.

“ Read in New Ejigland Journal of Educa-
tion. The most interesting articles were those
about the ‘ Crowfoot Family,’ and ‘ A Walk be-
side a Stone Wall : A Study of the Rocks.’ ”

May 19, 1881. “ One of the boys brought a

bouquet of blue and white violets, columbine,
and polygala. None of the scholars knew the
name of the little pink flower ; so the teacher
told them.

“ A flower was brought to-day to illustrate the
poem the pupils are learning, — ‘ Jack in the
Pulpit.’ All examined it, or said they did ; the
boys were most curious.”

May 20, 1881. “The reading-lesson was
from Higginson’s ‘ History of the United
States.’ The pupils have read aloud as far as
the American Revolution.

“Miss brought to school the eggs and

little shells of a winkle, with a copy of the
Scientific American, having a picture and a

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description of the fish in it, and called the
attention of the scholars to them.”

Two of the teachers recently borrowed from
the library a large work containing hundreds
of heliotype illustrations of buildings, person-
ages, and every-day life in China, and a collec-
tion of photographs from scenes in India, in
order to have slides made for use in a stere-
opticon or some similar instrument, which can
be used by daylight, which they employ in
teaching geography.

Proceeding to the second part of my subject,

I will now describe some of the work done by
teachers and scholars within the library building.

Both classes of inquirers continually consult
with the librarian in regard to books that will
give answers to numberless questions that arise
in connection with various school studies.

Teachers frequently ask for lists of books that
are suitable for the use of pupils, to illustrate
studies they are pursuing. The attention of
teachers is called to new books, as published,
which it seems probable they or their pupils
will find useful. Perhaps, at a season of the
year when new books are appearing in large
numbers, teachers may be invited to come to
the library building between specified hours
to look over a hundred or two new publications
selected with reference to their needs.

When a new professor comes to Worcester,
or a teacher of some special subject is appointed
to give instruction in the public schools, an in-
terview is sought with the new-comer, and he is
invited to examine our collection of books on
the special subject he has to teach, and to sug-
gest what additions, if any, he considers it de-
sirable should be made to it.

Printed lists of additions to the library, also,
are sent as issued to heads of school buildings,
and copies of our new catalogue, which is to be
published at the end of the present year, will
be placed in the different school-houses.

A room in the library building is always at
the service of teachers, to which they may bring
classes for especial instruction by means of
lectures or lessons, illustrated by costly works
belonging to the library. This room is large
and is much used.

Squads of from ten to twenty scholars come
from the High School during the forenoon of

every day, excepting Saturday and Sunday, in
school hours, to see books which will make the
study of history more profitable and interesting
than it would otherwise be. They examine
pictorial representations of scenes, buildings, and
persons, and delineations of the every-day life
of the countries the history of which they are
studying, and read in other books than their
text-books about these countries ; taking notes
of a portion of the matter read, and making
verbal or written reports to teachers in regard
to what they have found.

In the report made last year I showed how
Greek and Roman history is illustrated. I
could have as well taken any other country,
Egypt, England, France, the United States, for
example, or a period in history, such, for in-
stance, as the Middle Ages.

When this kind of work is to be done, fifty
or more volumes are selected from works in the
library relating to the country to be illustrated,
with especial reference to school-work, and put
in some place where they can readily be handled
when scholars come to the library.

An attendant gives a volume to every
scholar, and I go to the pupils one by one, to
see whether they know how to use books so as
to get information from them by availing them-
selves of the aid afforded by indexes, tables of
contents, page headings, etc., and to see
whether they have found something in the
books to interest them.

Sometimes I change a scholar’s book. Al-
most invariably, however, I show him how to
use the book he has, so as to find in it some-
thing interesting, or so as to get from it some
fact that he is searching for.

In this exercise children not only acquire in-
formation, and learn how to study rationally,
but also how to use books, and get from them
whatever information they need.

It takes but little time to do this kind of work.
Half of the pupils interest themselves, and a
glance at them shows that they are using books
profitably. A minute or so spent with each of
the others suffices to excite interest, and soon
all the scholars are at work, doing something
that it is pleasant for them to do. They give no
trouble, for the reason that they are interested
in the work.

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233

During the last year the principal teacher of
history in the High School has had every
scholar under her charge (and she has had the
care of about 1 50 pupils) write a story in which
the characters ■'and scenes were to be such as
belong to a specified period in Roman history.
Preparation for this work had to be made by
the scholars in the library.

It is her custom to have members of her
classes describe, orally, life at certain periods
of history, or in certain classes of society at a
given time. Thus, once during the last term,
they have been asked to state what the every-
day life was of the dwellers in castles in the
Middle Ages, or to give a description of their
surroundings, or of some castle itself. The
following are some of the subjects selected by
pupils as given to me by their teacher :
Tournaments ; The Art of becoming a Knight ;
The Position of Woman ; Storming a Castle ;
Furniture ; A Hunting Scene ; Secret Tribunals ;
Education of the Sons of Nobles ; Currency of
the Middle Ages ; A Farm Scene ; A Christmas
Scene ; The Preparation of Food, etc.

Some of the scholars read selections from
“ Marmion,” “The Legend of the Rhine,”
“ Ivanhoe,” “ The Abbot,” etc.

Descriptions were given of Kenilworth, Hei-
delberg, Holyrood, and Windsor Castle.

A pupil told her teacher, recently, that she
was discouraged by her library work, for she
found that historians make conflicting state-
ments sometimes. The teacher encouraged
her, of course, by telling her that one of the

reasons for doing library work was that the
scholars might find out that different historians
view men and events from varying stand-
points, and differ in their judgments regarding
them.

Another scholar said to the same teacher,
not long since, that, in studying history as she
was now studying it, she was learning to think.

This teacher tells me that she notices great
good and increasing profitableness as coming
from the work which the library and school are
doing together.

In studying English Literature, as stated
before, the teachers and scholars of the High
School make great use of the library ; getting
advantage not only from books taken to the
school-house, but, also, from volumes used
within the library building.

If, for example, “ Evangeline” is beingstudied,
they come to the library to find out what they
can about Longfellow, and the circumstances
under which he wrote the poem ; to learn about
Acadia, and the exile of the Acadians, and their
subsequent career ; for explanations, also, of
incidents, allusions, and figures in the poem.

In conclusion, it may be stated that we not
infrequently wean schools in so far as every-
day wants are concerned. Seeing the advan-
tages that arise from the free use of books these
institutions collect them, and form little
libraries for themselves, and depend on the
Public Library for such wants only as require
the use of expensive or otherwise inaccessible
works.

REPORT ON AIDS AND GUIDES TO READERS. 1883.'

BY w: E. FOSTER, LIBRARIAN OF THE PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY.

PART I. GUIDES.

Let us consider first those which are most
accurately described as “guides,” and
afterwards the more general “aids.”

We begin almost inevitably with bibliog-
raphy as our foundation-stone. Let me men-

1 Owing to the insufficient time assigned for this paper,
on the last day of the session, only a portion of it was
read.

tion first, therefore, the recently published
little pamphlet, “ Library aids ” (New York,
F. Leypoldt, 1883),^ which, on a very com-
prehensive scale, points out what may be found
under both of the heads mentioned above.
This pamphlet is, in fact, the “report” of our

2 Sent without charge to librarians, on application to
Melvil Dewey, Chief Librarian, Columbia College, New
York.

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associate, Mr. Green, presented two years
ago, with important additions and modifi-
cations.

In the same connection, also, must be men-
tioned the Libra7y journal, which forms a
continuous and most directly serviceable guide
to (i) the books to read, to purchase, and to
avoid (in the “ Library purchase-list” of new
books in each number) ; (2) the facts con-

nected with the authorship of books, in its de-
partment of “ Anonyms and pseudonyms” in
each number) ; and (3) to miscellaneous in-
formation,1 on a most comprehensive scale.

A brief mention of some of the bibliograph-
ical guides which have not appeared in previous
reports may be made at this point, the order
being alphabetical.^

Adams, Henry Carter. An outline of lectures
upon political economy. Baltimore, 1881.
[Not a bibliography, but a carefully chosen
series of references to authorities in connec-
tion with that topic.]

Bartlett, John. Catalogue of books on an-
gling. Cambridge, 1882. [Prepared by
the accomplished author of the dictionary of
“ Familiar quotations,” and most admirably
executed.]

Bngbee, James M., editor. List of works on
trials, session laws, statutes, and codes, etc.
Boston, 1882.

Clarke, Robert, editor. Bibliotheca Ameri-
cana, 1883. Cincinnati, 1883.

Davidson, Thomas. A bibliography of Ros-
mini. [Prefixed to his volume “The
philosophic system of Rosmini,” pages
li-lxxxviii.]

Farrar, C. S. A history of sculpture, paint-
ing, and architecture. Chicago, 1881. [Not
a bibliography, but, as the title indicates, a
series of topical references to the most ser-
viceable authorities under each one of the
subdivisions of these departments. The
book is labelled on the outside, “ Art
topics.”]

1 For other periodicals, of which, to a greater or less
extent, the above holds true, see Green’s “ Library aids,”
p. 14-15.

2 This report comes only to July, 1883.

Fiske, Willard. A catalogue of Petrarch
books. Ithaca, N.Y., 1882. [With full
titles, collations, and bibliographical notes.]
Gill, T. Bibliography of the fishes of the
Pacific coast, to the end of 1879. [In the
“Bulletin of the United States National
Museum.” No. ii. 73 pages.]

Grdffin, A. P. C. The discovery of the Mis-
sissippi ; a bibliographical account. New
York, 1883. [A most conscientious and
painstaking piece of bibliographical work.
It was first printed in the Magazine of
A7nerica7t history, March and April, 1883,
and afterwards separately issued with a copy
of Joliet’s map, 1674.]

Griswold, J. A bibliography of assurance
law. [In the Insurance times, April, 1883.]
Hammett, Charles E., Jr. A bibliography
of Newport, R.I. [On cards, unprinted.
More than 400 titles.]

Harrisse, H., A bibliography of the Cabots.
[At pages 370-75 of his “ Vie de Jean et
Sebastian Cabot.” Paris, 1883.]

Hildebur7i, Charles R. List of the issues of
the press in Pennsylvania, 1685-1734. [In
the Bulletin of the Library Company of
Philadelphia, Jan., 1882, pages 44-55, and
afterwards separately issued.]

— The same. List of issues, 1735-59.
Bulletin of the Library Company of Philadel-
phia, January, 1883, pages 75-100.]

Hurst, J. F. Bibliotheca theologica. New
York, 1883. 417 pages.

Mason, Otis T. A bibliography of anthro-
pology. [In “ Annual report of the Smith-
sonian Institution,” 1880, p. 403-39.]
Munsell, F. A bibliography of Albany, N.Y.
Albany, 1883. 73 pages. [The entries begin
with the year 1771.]

Nadaillac, Comte B. de. Catalogue d’une
collection importante sur la revolution fran-
9aise. Paris, 1883. [A catalogue of a col-
lection for sale, but carefully prepared and
very full. 2,082 titles.]

Rhees, W. J. Catalogue of publications of the
Smithsonian Institution (1846-1882), with
an alphabetical index of articles.

Sabin, Joseph. Dictionary of books relating
to America. [Nos. 79 to 82 of this monu-
mental bibliography have appeared during

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the year, bringing it down to the end of the
entry, “ Pennsylvania.”]

Solberg, L. Thorvald. A bibliography of liter-
ary property. [In Publishers' Weekly since
Aprils, 1883" Not completed.]

— . A list of the text-editions and trans-
lations of the Eddas. Edda Saemundar.
Edda Snorra Sturlusonar. 10 pages. [In
a forthcoming number of the Boston Public
Library Bulletin, probably October, 1883.]
Soule, C. C. The lawyer’s reference manual
of law-books and citations. Boston, 1883.
[An indispensable key to every law library.
Very comprehensively and skilfully exe-
cuted.]

Stone, F. D. Bi-centennial reading (on the
founding of Philadelphia), p. 6$-j6oi Phila-
delphia Library Bulletin, July, 1882.

Sweet, Herbert C. A complete catalogue of
modern law-books. London, 1882. 472

pages.

Vallee, L6on. Bibliographie des bibliog-
raphies. Paris, 1883. 773 pages. [Re-

viewed in the Library journal, June, 1883,
viii, 104-5.]

Some valuable special bibliographies have
also appeared in periodicals.

On Irving, in the Critic, March 31, 1883,
iii., 143-45-

In the Literary World, since March 31,
1883, there have been the following: “A short
Bibliography of Jesuitism” (April 21), xiv.,
132 ; “Oriental works of imagination” (May
5), xiv., 149; “Editions of George Sand”
(May 19)-, xiv., 161 ; “ Bibliography of Philip
Schaff” (June 30), xiv., 208-9; “Literature of
Georgia ” (July 28), xiv., 241-42.

Other periodical publications which, in their
several lines of research, furnish invaluable bib-
liographical guidance, are Psyche (published
by the Cambridge Entomological Club) ; Soule
and Bugbee’s useful Legal Bibliography ; and
the Lndex Medicus, a work which in the com-
prehensiveness of its scale and the complete-
ness of its entries is altogether unique.

The Literary World, which, during the
past few years, has contained a great number
of very useful bibliographies, has done its
readers the service of preparing “An index to

the bibliographies in the Literary World,^' in
the issue of that journal for March 24, 1883,
xiv., 92.

In this connection may be mentioned the
monthly publication entitled the Monthly Ref-
erence Lists.'i- TJbe number last published is
the 31st in order from the beginning, and the
31 numbers contain 80 separate lists. At the
end of each year an alphabetical index or
the titles (and such other subject entries as
would not appear in the titles) is furnished to
accompany the completed volume. They are
also indexed in the Q. P. Index Annual, 1882.

Mr. H. J. Carr, one of our associate mem-
bers, has performed the useful service of index-
ing in one alphabet not only these, but such
other reference lists, etc., as have recently ap-
peared. This “ Index to some recent refer-
ence lists ” appeared in the Library journal,
February, 1883, viii., 27-32.

Journals which, like those already named,
occasionally contain bibliographical helps
are the Critic, Good Literature, etc. The
Literary News contains a regular department
of “ Cues for readers and students,” in which
are noted, from month to month, the bibliog-
raphies, reference lists, and other helps, in
connection with popular and current topics.

Of course every librarian needs the Bibliog-
rapher, which contains not merely valuable
stores of bibliographical material, but presents
it in a most genial and attractive form.

Also several such publications as the Library
News, published for a time by the Peoria Pub-
lic Library.

ANONYMS AND PSEUDONYMS.

Reference has already been made to the de-
partment under this heading in the successive
numbers of the Library journal.

Several extended lists of pseudonyms ap-
peared in the Literary World, several years
ago, in the numbers for November, 1877, and
November and December, 1878 (viii., 102-3 ;
ix., 96, 97, 114-15)-

Lists will also be found in several library
catalogues. For instance, in the “Catalogue
of the Newburgh Free Library,” 1878, p. 423-

1 Prepared by W; E. Foster. Published by F. Leypoldt.

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40, and in the “ First supplement to the Find-
ing list of the Providence Public Library,”
1882.

A volume entitled “ Pseudonyms of
authors,” 1 by J. E. Haynes, printed within
a year, comprises 112 pages.

A valuable work published in Spanish at
Santiago, in Chile, is entitled “ Notas para
una bibliografia de obras anonimas i seudo-
nimas sobre la historia, la jeografia, i la litera-
tura, de America.” By Diego Barros Arana.
Santiago, 1882, 171 pages.

The last two years have witnessed the put-
ting in print of what will prove to be the most
comprehensive work of this class in English,
— the “Dictionary of the anonymous and
pseudonymous literature of Great Britain,”
by the late Samuel Halkett and the late Sam-
uel Laing, of Edinburgh.

The two volumes which have already ap-
peared (volume I, 1882; volume 2, 1883)
bring the work down to the end of the letter
N. The work is of indispensable importance.

PERIODICAL INDEXES.

Mr. Griswold has continued his very helpful
work, adding to his indexes, since the last re-
port, the following : —

No. 8. Autoren- und Sachregister der Deutsc-
hen Rundschau, volumes 1-29. Bangor,
1882.

No. 10. A general index to the North
American Review, volumes 92-134. Ban-
gor, 1882.

No. II. A general index to the Contempo-
rary Review, the Fortnightly Review, and
the Nineteenth Century. Bangor, 1882.
Mr. Griswold has also issued two numbers
of the Q. P. Index Annual, 1881 and 1882,
an annual of great value and convenience in

1 In the “Literary World,” July 14, 1SS3, is a letter
from Ralph Thomas (author of the “ Handbook of ficti-
tious names,” by “ Olphar Hamst”), examining Mr.
Haynes’s work with considerable severity.

In French have recently been published, “ Les pseudo-
nymes du jour,” by C. Joliet (in “ L’lllustration,” Sept.
23, 1S82) ; also a supplement to Barbier’s “ Dictionnaire
des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes publics en Fran-
9ais ; ” and also additions and corrections to Querard’s
“ Supercheries litteraires devoildes.”

consulting such periodicals as are indexed in
it.

Besides Mr. Griswold’s indexes, the follow-
ing periodical indexes have appeared : —

Index to the yournal of Speculative Philos-
ophy, volumes 1-15, 1867-82.

Index to the Popular Science Monthly,
volumes 1-20, and 3 volumes of the supple-
ment. N.Y., 1883.

A complete index to LitteWs Living Age.
No. I. The first hundred volumes. Biog-
raphy. Philadelphia, 1883. By E. Roth.

There can, however, be but one voice in
pronouncing the great event in this department
of library work during the year to be the com-
pletion of Poole’s Index. It is certainly not as
a matter of news that this report touches upon
an enterprise so intimately interwoven with the
work of this Association ; but it is a pleasure
to acknowledge for the Association, and for
librarians generally, our high appreciation of
the distinguished service which has thereby
been rendered by our eminent associate, whose
name it bears, and his accomplished colleague,
whose name he has placed on the title-page
with his own.

Merely as a matter of record it should here be
stated that the work contains 1,442 pages,
printed in double columns ; that it contains
references to over 6,000 different volumes of
periodicals, and that more than 200 separately
entitled periodicals are included in its list.

The completion of this work puts a new face
on the whole question of the use of periodical
literature. This is a key which renders at
once available treasures which no doubt have
stood in many a library unopened from one
end of the year to the other. The effects of
this may be seen in several ways : (i.) In the
determined efforts now making in many libra-
ries to complete such imperfect sets of peri-
odicals as had accidentally accumulated. A
circular was sent out by one library, calling
upon the public-spirited citizens who could
furnish the numbers, to help to complete its
set, and a most encouraging response was the
result. (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.)

(2.) In the increased attention directed to
this department of a library by the prepara-
tion of special lists. For instance, the Chi-

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cago Public Library has appended to its
“ Finding lists, 1882 ” (p. 84-86), a list of
“ Periodicals in the Chicago Public Library,
which are indexed in Poole’s index to periodi-
cal literature, 3d ed., 1882.”

Also two libraries of Providence have united
to publish “ An alphabetical list of the peri-
odicals currently taken in the libraries and
reading-rooms of Providence.” (Providence,
1883.)

The very valuable work of Professor H.
Carrington Bolton, also (“A catalogue of
scientific and technical publications”), is now
passing through the press of the Smithsonian
Institution.

Many librarians have found it necessary to
supply their libraries with two copies of Poole’s
Index, and those libraries which have not yet
procured two copies may be considered as
wanting two, if they could afford them.

Certainly there is no question more frequently
asked in my own library than “Who has
Poole’s Index? ” If we had two copies, they
would be constantly in use.

OTHER INDEXES.

In German has appeared the “ Theologischer
Jahresbericht, 1881.” Leipzig, 1882.

And in French, “Table g^n^rale, alpha-
b^tique, analytique, et par noms d’anteurs, de
la Bibliotheque des predicateurs, 1870-81.”
Paris, 1882. 55 pages.

The annual alphabetical list accompanying
the Publishers Trade-list Annual is, of course,
of constant service.

Among other works of general reference may
be mentioned : —

Benton^ Joel. Concordance to Emerson’s
poetry, p. 91-129 of “ Emerson as a
poet.”

Bornmuller^ F. Biographisches Schriftsteller
Lexikon der Gegenwart. Leipzig, 1882.
Bornhak, C. Lexikon der allgemeinen Littera-
turgeschichte. Leipzig, 1882.

Cushings W. Century of authors, v. i.
Ken7iedy., W. S. Emerson concordance.

[Eight and a half columns in the Literary
World. July 15, 1882.]

Of the publications of libraries which are
issued at regular intervals (monthly, quarterly,

etc.), as “bulletins,” etc.,i those of the Bos-
ton Public Library have been issued quarterly
as heretofore, and have been serviceable to
librarians everywhere. The Harvard Univer-
sity Library Bulletin is now included in the
Harvard University Bulletin.

The Library of Cornell University has
reached its sixth number.

The Brookline Public Library publishes
monthly bulletins of accessions.

The Hartford Library Bulletin appears
quarterly, and always with notes and biblio-
graphical help.

The St. Louis Public School Library Bulle-
tin has continued to bring up the arrearages
of its catalogue, with numerous useful annota-
tions.

In the New York Mercantile Library there
have been two bulletins of accessions issued
during the year.

The “Lists of Additions” to the Boston
Athenaeum, Worcester Free Public Library,
Buffalo Young Men’s Library, and Milwaukee
Public Library, with their useful notes and cita-
tions of reviews, have been continued.

The New York State Library publishes at
intervals “condensed indexes” of the addi-
tions.

The Providence Athenaeum issues a yearly
supplement to its catalogue, which is printed
with its annual report.

The Philadelphia Library issues a bulletin
of great value.

The Philadelphia Mercantile Library has
more recently begun a similar bulletin.

The Cincinnati Public Library publishes
monthly supplements.

The San Francisco Public Library issues
occasional supplements.

USE OF NEWSPAPERS.

Among the libraries which make more or
less regular use of some newspaper for an-
nouncing additions are the Springfield City
Library and the Lowell City Library.

The same is true of the Hartford Library,
and the Providence Public Library, which,

1 The consideration of library catalogues proper is
here omitted, being considered in Mr. Noyes’s report.

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however, use the newspapers not so much for
lists of additions to the library, as for mention
of works on some current topic. In the case
of the latter library this has been an unbroken
practice weekly, in one morning paper and one
evening paper.

Mr. Kite, of the Friends’ Library at German-
town, Penn., furnishes to a weekly religious
newspaper in Philadelphia (the National
Baptist) a similar list of references on current
topics.

SPECIAL LIBRARY LISTS AND MISCELLANEOUS
LISTS.

There are several specially prepared lists
which deserve notice. The New York
Apprentices’ Library has published several
lists of works in special departments which
it recommends to its readers.

The New York Mercantile Library has ap-
pended to one of its bulletins “ a list of books
recommended as suitable for young readers.”
“ More than 10,000 of these bulletins were sent
by mail to residences throughout the city.”

The San Francisco Public Library has pub-
lished “a short reading-list,” made up of a
selection of works in different departments,
which it recommends.

“Courses of reading on special subjects”
are to be found in the Critic, February 24,
March 3, 1883 (“American history”), iii.,
77-78, 89-90; Jan. 20, 27, Feb. 3, 10, 17
(Theology); March 10, 17 (Political econ-
omy); (The drama) May 12, 215-16. (See
also the “Hints for those who know how to
read,” March 17, 1883, 1 13-14.)

In the “Monthly Notes of the Library As-
sociation of the United Kingdom,” July, 1882,
is a “ List of selected books on political
economy,” prepared by the late Professor Wil-
liam Stanly Jevons.

In the Journal of Education (London),
March, 1882, is a selected list of “ Historical
novels and tales,” prepared by Mr. H. Court-
hope Bowen.

See also Mr. Leypoldt’s pamphlet, “ Books
of all time.”

“ The book-lover’s enchiridion,” published
(without the author’s name) over the signature
of “ Philobiblos.” London, 1882.

“ Historical reference lists,” by John T.
Short, Columbus, O., 1882.

The method ofcorrect teaching, as connected
with the literature of a subject, is treated in a
volume now in press, edited by G. Stanley Hall.

PART II. AIDS.

A. — THOSE RELATING TO LOCATION AND AR-
RANGEMENT OF SPACE.

Archer, William. Essential features of a li-
brary building. [In Monthly Notes, March
1 5, 1883, p. 46-48.] [Reading-rooms shelved
for books of reference.]

Boston Athenoeiun. “ How to get books,” with
an explanation of the new way of marking
books. By C. A. Cutter, Librarian. Boston,
1882. 36 pages.

Dziatzko, Karl. Die Bibliothek und der Lese-
saal des Britischen Museum. Berlin, 1881.
[Reprinted from Preussische Jahrbucher ,
V. 48. Extracts, in English, in the “Monthly
Notes of the Library Association of the
United Kingdom,” Feb., 1882 ; and in the
Library journal. May, 1882, v. 7, p. 79-
80.] He touches slightly upon the matter
of arrangement of space.

Poole, W. F. Yearly report on library archi-
tecture, at Cincinnati meeting. In Library
journal, vii., 130-36.

Stevens, H. Review of Prof. Dziatzko’s criti-
cism of the British Museum. [In part pub-
lished in the “ Monthly Notes of the Library
Association of the United Kingdom,” March, -
1882 ; and also in the Library joic,rnal
May, 1882, V. 7, p. 80-82.] [“ A supple-

mental reading-room for newspapers, peri-
odicals, etc., is intended to be built, and a
new select library of some 40,000 volumes
brought together in the galleries of the read-
ing-room.”]

In various libraries in this country (for in-
stance, the Philadelphia Library, the Brooklyn
Library, the Newburyport Public Library, and
others) special provision is made for the ladies
among the readers, a separate room, appropri-
ately furnished, being provided for them.

Of the last-named library the remark is
made : “ There are few superior to it, even in

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our large cities, and none equal to it in any
city of our population.” [Report, 1882-83,
p. 9.]

When the (question is one of meeting the
wants of a collection created for special pur-
poses of study and research, different consid-
erations are involved, which do not enter into
the case of libraries collected on general prin-
ciples.

Nowhere does the application of careful study
and intelligent planning to such a problem as
this seem to have been brought to so high a
point as in the case of one of the department
libraries of Johns Hopkins University, at Balti-
more. This is the department of historical and
political science, under the charge of Dr. H.
B. Adams, whose ideal of arrangement, in
fact, the plan represents.

There is a space of about fifty feet square,
with windows on three sides ; the entrance on
the fourth . A partition runs along the western
side of the room, reducing the main room to
dimensions of about fifty by thirty-eight feet.
The centre of all is occupied by tables for
the periodicals and for the examination of new
books. At the right, as one enters, are the
bookcases, standing so that the light from the
windows shines between them, and lights a
desk placed in each of these bays for the use
of readers. On the left the space partitioned
off is divided into five sub-bureaus, and a
sixth room, outside the space of fifty feet
square, is used as a lecture-room. On the same
wall with the door communicating with the
entrance, and on either side of this door, are
the card-catalogue and the bulletin-board.
Against the wall, at the farther end, is the
valuable Bluntschli collection recently obtained
in Germany.

At Columbia College, also, the new library
building has been arranged with careful refer-
ence to special uses.

In Chicago, where a very noteworthy in-
crease in the use of the public library for pur-
poses of reference has been developed within
the year, the report states (p. 20) : “ The tables,
much of the time, have been so crowded that
it was difficult to find a seat, or sufficient space
to work in comfortably. Four times the space
we now have is needed for our present wants.

and ten times the space ought to be provided
for the use of reference students in the new
library building.”

B. — THOSE RELATING TO VARIOUS LIBRARY
APPLIANCES.

A bulletin-board is a feature, apparently, of
most of the libraries, either for posting the
titles of books newly added, or for furnishing
references on current topics.

A messenger delivery, which has been in
practical operation in connection with several
New York and Boston libraries, is now re-
tained only in the New York Mercantile
Library. In the latter case, where there is
a daily distribution by express, the remark is
made that “ This increased expense, however,
has been fully justified by the increased facilities
afforded.” [Report, 1883, p. 14.]

In connection with the San Francisco Mer-
cantile Library, a feature is found which, so
far as is known, is quite unique. Once a
month a list of some forty or fifty one-
line titles, representing recent additions, is
printed across the narrow dimensions of a
postal card and mailed to readers. The libra-
rian writes that it furnishes — as it naturally
w'ould — a handy method of asking for books.
The readers come to the library with these
postals in their hands, checking what they
want.

[It may be added, in this connection, that
the same result follows from the practice of
printing similar selections in the new^spapers,
as in the case of the Providence Public
Library. The readers cut these from the
newspapers and come to the library with them
in their hands, calling for the books therein
mentioned.]

c. — THOSE RELATING TO CATALOGUING,
ETC.

In the Boston Public Library “ an initial
bibliographical card ” precedes the arrange-
ment of catalogue-cards under any given title.
Thus : —

Browning, 'Roh^ri. List of his writings. Lit-
erary World, March 14, 1882. 5341 -3-

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“ One wants llie literatureof a subject,” says
a writer in the Library journal, viii, 112,
“ Botany, Evolution, Scotch Metaphysics,
National Banks, — and one has a general
recollection that it is found in the Provi-
dence Monthly Lists, or Harvard, or some-
where, and this somewhere involves much
search.”

“ Practically the same thing has been done,
though in slightly different methods, at the
Libraries of Harvard College, the Boston
Athenaeum, and Rochester University.” [In
Library jo^irnal, viii. 112, (1883).]

In more than one library' contents-cata-
loguing is practised.

The method in the Providence Public
Library is to use the ordinary white standard
catalogue-card for all entries based on the
title-page, and a brown card for all cases
where the cataloguer “goes behind the title-
page, so to speak, and catalogues the actual
contents of the book.”

The practice varies, it is found, in the
matter of allowing the public to have access
to the card-catalogue. While, undoubtedly
this would be wholly impracticable in the
case of some constituencies, the withdrawal
of the privilege is always to be regretted.
Even should the number of users be com-
paratively small, the satisfaction derived by
those who do use it intelligently is so great
that its w'ithdrawal would be seriously felt.

Probably, while the Title-slip Registry was
in existence, most libraries cut out the entries
standing for books in their own collection
mounting these entries on the cards in their
own catalogue.

Since the discontinuance of the Title-slip
Registty some libraries ^ have preferred to spoil
their copy of the PtMishers'' Weekly by cut-
ting out these entries.

In the Providence Public Library, also,
annotated entries are given when possible, by
availing of the opportunity furnished by
printed information of various descriptions, —

1 Among- those which may be mentioned, are the Bos-
ton Public Library, Fall River Public Library, New York
Free Circulating Library, etc.

2 For instance the Providence Public Library and the
Springfield City Library.

reviews, publishers, announcements, etc; and
a file of the Literary News, and a file of the
Monthly Reference Lists, annotated, are kept
at the reading-room for reference.

Most of us are familiar with the scrap-book
begun at the Boston Public Library, a con-
siderable number of years ago, into which the
entries of the successive bulletins, cut apart,
were pasted, with other illustrative material.
Somewhat similar scrap-books are in use in
the Lancaster Town Library. In this are in-
serted book-notices, and other information not
placed on the bulletin-board. [The Lowell
City Library also mak’es use of a scrap-book,
but it is for entering short poems, verses for
declamation, etc.]

The use of annotated catalogues has been
the occasion of some difference of opinion
among librarians. One of our most esteemed
associates remarks, concerning a form of con-
densed, unannotated catalogue, that “Very
few readers, if they have access to such in-
dexes, seek for any catalogue more full.”

Undoubtedly, and if he will allow me to
differ from him as to the fact of this state of
things being a desirable one, let me say that this
is precisely the reason why a librarian should
bring to bear all resources at his command
to awaken the feeling in the reader which will
seek for one more full.

“The tendency,” says a writer in the Li-
brary Journal, v. 7, p. 5, — “the tendency of
all cataloguing is in the direction of fulness.”

It is a significant fact that in one of the
large libraries of the country, — the Cincin-
nati Public Library, — “ Extra copies for the
use of the public,” are supplied, of the [Bos-
ton] Athenaeum and Brooklyn catalogues.

The tendency is in fact to a degree of fulness
which is not likely to be found practicable in
libraries generally. Even the degree of fulness
just cited as practised at the Boston Public
Library is beyond the reach of most libraries,
by reason of limited time, help, and financial
resources. If the writer may be permitted to
quote from another publication in which he
has discussed this matter,' “ It is not unlikely
that, in the bibliographical economy of the

1 5th annual report of the librarian of the Providence
Public Library, 1882, p. 10.

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future, tliese two lines of work will advance
side by side with each other, — the catalogu-
ing of the library as a whole, within a pre-
scribed limit as to fulness, and the minute and
comprehensive exhibition of resources on par-
ticular topics as occasion arises.”

D. — THOSE CONNECTED WITH THE CIRCU-
LATION AND USE OF THE BOOKS, ETC.

A postal is used in San Francisco^ to notify
all readers shareholders) of the new

books purchased; and in Providence to notify
individual readers of specific books added, and
also to notify such readers as request it, of the
return of a particular book to the library.

The current numbers of periodicals are, in
most libraries, consulted at the reading-room
only. In some few libraries, however, these
circulate as books. Two libraries, ^ it appears,
find it desirable to continue this plan. One
other (the Peabody Institute, Peabody, Mass.)
has discontinued it within the year.^

The practice of taking more than one copy
of the most widely read of the current periodi-
cals is, perhaps, more generally prevalent.

The practice of leaving these numbers on
the tables in the reading-room, or somewhere
outside of the desk, accessible to readers
without formal application for them, is very
general in all excepting public libraries.

It may be said, with regard to each one of
these points, that, with conditions varying
widely in different places, all librarians are
desirous of meeting the convenience of the
public to the farthest extent practicable.

D. — REFERENCE DEPARTMENT.

The field which offers most encouragement
to aids of this kind is, of course, connected
with the use made of the library for specific
purposes.

Nearly every library has now come to real-

1 San Francisco Mercantile Library.

2 Brookline Public Library and New York Free Circu-
lating Library.

3 In one library (the Brookline Public Library) there
are available for circulation and home use, like ordinary
books, “ duplicate sets of the more important general
cyclopaedias and gazetteers.” This privilege, the librarian
states, has been found “ very acceptable.”

ize that, unless built on a comprehensive and
carefully-selected collection of “reference
books” (dictionaries, cyclopaedias, etc.), its
work loses much of its effectiveness. These,
says the published utterance of the representa-
tive of one of these libraries, constitute “the
strength and real usefulness of a library.”'

But, using the words “reference depart-
ment” to stand for the intelligent use of the
library’s resources for specific purposes, it is
exceedingly gratifying to find that, year by
year, an increasingly larger number of in-
stances are noted, in all our libraries. For
instance, in a Massachusetts city,^ the report
notes the “ increasing demand for good indexes
and guides to the best sources of information.”
In a Rhode Island town,^ the report notes “ a
marked increase in the use made of the library
for the purposes of reference.” In the Brook-
lyn Library, as is to be expected, with its ad-
mirable catalogue, “The use of the library
for purposes of reference has steadily grown,
year by year, until it has become a large ele-
ment in our work.” Nowhere, however, has
this use been attended by a more striking de-
velopment than at the Worcester Free Public
Library. “ It may be safely said,” says the
accomplished librarian, “that, in amount and
variety, the work done here in the reference
department of the library is unique.” Twelve
years ago it was not used at all. The figures
which represent its use during the last twelve
years are as follows ; —

7,321 20,550 27,694 40,866

12,408 22,833 30.079 43.414

15,672 27,694 34.311 48,846

“ These books,” he states, “ have been de-
sired almost exclusively for serious purposes,
and represent a large amount of investigation
by persons of all ages.”

It scarcely needs to be stated that this sort
of use of the library can be most effectively
stimulated by taking advantage of interest in
current or standard topics to lead the reader’s
attention on to higher planes of reading.

1 Monson, Mass.

2 Lynn.

3 Bristol.

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The number of libraries which post bulletins
on current topics has not been ascertained.
This, however, has been done with more or
less regularity, at Boston, Providence, Paw-
tucket, Hartford, New York (Free Circulating
Library), Philadelphia, and Baltimore (Johns
Plopkins University).

It may be remarked, in passing, that the
placing of Poole’s Index within the reach of all
libraries makes it now possible for any library
to find material for a daily reference note on
some question of interest.

A suggestion may be made also as to making
available the aids and guides elsewhere pub-
lished by marking the library’s own book-num-
bers on the margin.

Thus, in the Brookl}^ Library, and the
Providence Public Library, this is done with
Miss Hewins’s “ Books for the young.” In Cin-
cinnati, with Mr. Larned’s. In the Rochester
University Library and the Peabody Institute
Library (Peabody, Mass.) this is done with
the Monthly Reference Lists. In the Boston
Public Library, these latter are cut apart
and mounted on catalogue-cards, to be placed
in the card-catalogue.

In Chicago, the use of the library during the
past year has largely increased, and there has
been a marked development of a higher and
more serious use of books for the purposes of
study and improvement. The best and more
scholarly works have come more into requisi-
tion, and the library is becoming a larger
factor in the public educational system which is
so liberally furnished by the city to all its resi-
dents. There has been an increase of .07^ in
the number of books drawn for home use ; .43
in the number of visitors to the reference-tables ;
and .48 in the visitors to the reading-room ; .24
in the number of books used ; .48 in the use
of the American patent publications.

In Milwaukee “a school department of the
public library was created as an experiment, in
January, 1883. The teachers have, without
exception, expressed themselves as highly
pleased with the result in their schools.”

E. — IN CONNECTION WITH COURSES OF STUDY.

Not only in connection with such educa-
tional plans as those of the Society to En-

courage Studies at Home (Worcester), the
Chautauqua courses (Bristol, R. L), and other
courses of study (Lynn), and with college
essay themes (at Harvard, Amherst, Brown,
Trinity, Smith College, Rochester University,
Johns Hopkins University, and elsewhere).

Should this report touch on the matter of
aid in connection with school courses, it would
enter, of course, afield which has been assigned
to another member for a report, and I shall
therefore pass over these details.

Every one of us knows perfectly well that,
valuable as may be the aid and guidance ren-
dered by the various species of inanimate con-
trivances which we have been reviewing, noth-
ing, after all, can take the place of the personal,
individual, direct aid of the librarian himself.

And it is certainly one of the most gratify-
ing evidences of the gradual lifting of the level
of library work that never before has there
been anything like the degree of personal
assistance reported from the various libraries
all over the country.

The key-note of it may perhaps be found in
the following notice on the part of the librarian
of the Philadelphia Mercantile Library: —

“ It is, however, one of the most important
parts of the librarian’s duty to assist members
in their search for books, and for information
in connection with their reading and study.
And he desires all persons to feel and to exer-
cise the utmost freedom in calling upon him for
any assistance or advice which he may be
thought to be able to give.”

This, let me add, is well matched by a simi-
lar order on the part of one of our English
contemporaries : —

“ All persons,” — thus reads the notice posted
in the Bodleian Library, — “ All persons having
the right of reading in the library [or the camera
only], and being engaged in the study of any
special subject, are invited to communicate
with the librarian, who will endeavor to inform
them without delay, whenever any work bear-
ing on the subject of their study is added to the
library.”

It is unnecessary to enumerate every instance
which has come to the knowledge of the writer,
but a few may be mentioned as representative
cases.

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In the Newburyport Public Library, the
librarian affords “ all needful help in select-
ing ; and this, it may be added, is, in the
smaller and the medium-sized libraries, a
preeminently practical means of securing the
ear of readers. If they, of their own accord,
ask for assistance and suggestions, the very-
best of opportunities is thus afforded for bring-
ing to their notice that by which they will be
profited.

In the Lowell City Library, the librarian
states : “ My endeavor is rather to assist
readers to search for themselves than to
supply them personally with the information
they desire.”

In the Somerville Public Library, the libra-
rian says : “I sometimes think it may not be
the best way” to furnish too elaborate helps,
as the readers may thus “ lose the satisfaction
of digging out the information themselves.”

In the Taunton Public Library the aim is
“ to enable readers to help themselves.”

In the Haverhill Public Library, the librarian
says : “I use my best endeavor to be useful
to all who apply for information.”

In the Watertown Public Library, the libra-
rian says that it is “ the greatest pleasure of
my assistants and myself to give personal
assistance in this direction to all who call for
or need it.”

In the Friends’ Library and Reading-room,
at Germantown, Penn., it has been “ felt ” to
be the “duty of the caretakers” “to act as
guardians, missionaries in their sphere, and
these labors are well repaid.”

In the Dartmouth College Library, the
librarian says : “ We keep ourselves at the
disposal of the inquiring student, ready to
answer questions, make suggestions, point out
courses of reading, and indicate the best works
or the best part of works in different depart-
ments.”

In the Iowa University Library, the librarian
states : “No effort that I have made as yet
has been more satisfactory in its results than
the individual attention given to such as asked
or manifested some desire for help in their
reading.”

In the Worcester Public Library, the libra-
rian, as always, has been constantly at the

service of readers of all classes with their
specific topics of research.

In the Providence Public Library, the libra-
rian has, since the removal to new quarters in
1880, had his desk in the same room with the
public portion of the library space, separated
from the public only by a low counter. Under
this arrangement it is not only easy for the
readers to attract his attention and apply to
him for assistance and suggestions, but there
is no doubt that many readers who would not
think of inquiring for him were he in another
room, and would be reluctant to interrupt him,
are thus encouraged to make known their
wants. Besides this, the librarian is thus
enabled to observe many additional instances
where assistance can be judiciously rendered,
and to avail himself of them.

At the Boston Public Library, Mr. Thomas
H. Cummings, the special assistant in charge of
this branch of work, has continued the plan of
assistance furnished, with a remarkable degree
of success, yet not so remarkable when one
considers that this, after all, is the only thor-
ough and effective method of accomplishing
it.

The number of readers helped at Mr. Cum-
mings’desk in one year, 1882-83, is 57,614;
a daily average of 188. Of these, 24,002 were
on special subjects (average, 78), — a gradual
proportionate increase.

The difficulty with which many libraries have
to deal is thus stated by Mr. J. C. Hough-
ton, the librarian of the Lynn Public Library :
“ The great institutions can generally employ
specialists to assist their readers in their
choice of books. In the small town libraries,
intelligent librarians, knowing all their books
as well as nearly every one who calls for them,
can readily give the needed assistance. But
in the case of medium-sized libraries both of
these advantages are lacking. In these, espe-
cially “in large manufacturing communities,
the circulation is generally large,” and the
librarian and his assistants are called upon
under very unfavorable circumstances.

As a result of this personal individual con-
tact with readers, which most of these libraries
have developed, there is a large amount of
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instance, in the Hartford Library, there is a
yearly increasing demand for books and
articles in periodicals on special subjects.
Also in the Milwaukee Public Library, “ the
librarian and his assistants are now daily re-
quested to give their assistance in looking up
references.” Also in the Toledo Public Li-
brary, “ the intelligent effort of the librarians
has been to direct inquiries into better reading
in such direction as the apparent tastes of the
reader may seem to require.”

F. — LECTURES.

The suggestion of our president, made
several years ago, that much might be done in
giving an impetus to reading on specific sub-
jects by means of lectures, has been acted on
under its most favorable conditions, by Mr.
Poole, at Chicago, as elsewhere pointed out.

In connection also with the Free Circulating
Library in New York City, a series of “ School
lectures,” on Saturday afternoons, will begin
next October [1883], in one of the rooms con-
nected with the library. “ A limited number of
tickets will be given to students between the
ages of 14 and 18,” and others if practicable.

The subjects are “ those connected with
their school work, beginning probably with
American history.” “ Any topic of general
interest coming up would certainly be given a
place.”

The librarian of the Iowa University Library
has “ for the last two years called in the fresh-
man class, and others who desired, to listen to
a few practical hints and suggestions as to the
use of the library,” and given them some
practical talks on reading.

The librarian of the San Francisco Public
Library has, during the year, delivered an ad-
dress, on the practical use of books, to a“ pub-
lic school evening class.”

Mr. Cummings, of the Boston Public Library,
prepared two lectures of similar character and
design, which were “ delivered before the
Workingmen’s Club, and the Wells Memorial
Institute.”

The librarian of the Providence Public Li-
brary has, at various times within the past few
years, given similar lectures or talks to readers.
Lectures on various topics connected with the

use and description of books will constitute an
essential feature of the bibliographical course
as planned at Columbia College.

G. — MISCELLANEOUS.

The relation of the public libraries to such
institutions as reading clubs, debating societies,
and Sunday-school libraries is, of course, a
matter which each librarian has had occasion
to observe.

The last-mentioned libraries (Sunday-school
libraries) have been intelligently considered
by Mr. S. S. Green, of the Worcester Free
Public Library, in the Library Journal, viii.,
250-51 ; by Rev. A. E. Dunning, in the Sun-
day School Times, February, 1882 ; and by
other writers in the Sunday School Times,
January 28 and November ii, 1882.

It is for us who are in charge of American
libraries to open our eyes to the fact that the
aid, the impulse, and the inspiration which
may be conveyed through the use made of
these libraries of ours are among the sig-
nificant factors of our American civiliza-
tion. The late Professor William Stanley
Jevons, a writer of great acuteness and pro-
found reflection, after examining the experience
of various social movements and methods of
reform, deliberately pronounced this institu-
tion to be one of the “most permanent and
progressive.” “An important collection of
books,” he says, “once formed and housed,
is a solid nucleus, . . . which often grows

altogether beyond the conception of the first
founders.” “With the increase of education
and general intelligence, libraries will be far
more esteemed institutions half a century hence
than they are now.” {C^^ntemporary Review,
xxxix., 399.)

And, in this country, a careful observer, who
has had wide opportunities for noting the con-
ditions of society and the use of libraries in
New England, in the Middle Atlantic States,
and in the West, has pointed out some of the
forces which may serve to counteract a drift
towards permanently low standards in litera-
ture, thought, and social life.

Among them he mentions the system of
public libraries. “Our great reading class,”
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have for one of their highest functions the
amelioration of the popular taste.” “Some-
thing,” he adds, “ may be hoped, also, from the
intelligent attempt now being made to form
a true literary taste in the children of the pub-
lic schools. It is possible that such a taste
may be bred into our people by means of the
public school and the public library, — instru-
ments equal in power to the Dionysiac Theatre,
and vastly greater in their range of power.” ‘
An American scholar of long experience in
the management of public libraries, and in ob-
servation of their methods, has declared :
“ The public library is but a more recent
growth from the same root that first bore the

public school. Both institutions have their
origin in the conviction that a self-governed
community, if it is to remain free, must be self-
taught.” ^

The American of the century now before us
will have extraordinary problems to deal with,
and will need no ordinary equipment. All
that the school, the library, and his own sur-
roundings can furnish in the way of compre-
hensive training will be needed. In the aid
and guidance which the library can supply, it
is evident that the clearest eye, the most
active brain, the most concentrated energy,
and the most carefully instructed intelligence,
are indispensably necessary.

STATE LIBRARIES : THEIR MANAGEMENT AND SUPPORT.

BY GUY A. BROWN, LIBRARIAN STATE LIBRARY, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.

''PHE importance of having at the seat of gov-
-1- eminent in each State a library for the use
of its executive, legislative, and judicial depart-
ments was early realized by nearly all States, by
Congress in its grants to new territories, and
more or less money given towards their main-
tenance and support. The importance of secur-
ing librarians who look upon the position as one
of honor ; who will devote time, energy, and life
in its administration ; who know something
beyond merely being able to hand down a book
when called for ; who are not given the place as
a reward for political services alone ; who have
the courage of independence, the ability to de-
mand, and strength of character to maintain, a
fair measure of support from the State, had
been, to a considerable degree, overlooked.
Hence, several States take no interest whatever
in the subject of bibliography, or care whether
or not they possess the documents and pub-
lications of other States, or that their own are
kept elsewhere. This last defect may be due
to the fact that the State law intrusts the dis-
tribution to the secretary of the State, a duty
more properly belonging to the librarian.

To the government report of 1876, on public

1 Mr. G. E. Woodberry, in the Fortnightly Review,

XXXV., 615.

libraries in the United States, p. 293, Mr.
Homes, of the New York State Library, con-
tributed a valuable and interesting paper on
the history, condition, and aims of State and
territorial libraries. That paper is a text-book
which every State and territorial librarian will
do well to study and follow. It is so exhaust-
ive of the subject that I can do little more
than tell you something of what we on the
Western plains, in the State of Nebraska, have
done, and are doing, in carrying forward the
work intrusted to our care. The State of
Nebraska was admitted to the Union in the
year 1867. It had acquired by grant from the
general government on its admission as a terri-
tory, in the year 1855, $5,000 worth of books.
It never received any grant from the territory
or from the State until the year 1871, and at
that time many volumes of the original pur-
chase had been lost, through mismanagement
and carelessness. It numbered then, including
pamphlets of all kinds and descriptions, about
5,000 volumes. In the year 1875, by constitu-
tional enactment, the offices of reporter and
clerk of the Supreme Court and State librarian
were consolidated, and during the same year

1 Rev. Dr. W. R. Huntington, in 23d annual report of
the Worcester Free Public Library, 1S82, p. 6.

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the legislature passed an act devoting the pro-
ceeds arising from the sales of the Supreme
Court reports to the purchase of law books,
and in the year 1881 extended the donation to
include books for the general library. It now
numbers as a whole over 23,000 volumes. Like
nearly all the State libraries, especially in the
younger States, the law department, including
public documents of the United States and
other States and territories, and its own special
department of history, forms over two-thirds of
the whole. Of the whole number, probably
one-third of the law department, consisting of
text-books, reports, and law periodicals, are in
daily use by members of the' bar and judges of
the courts. We have managed it since 1871
without numbering and without any catalogue,
except an accession list, being able to answer
any call by author or subject, and placing our
hands on the desired book without those aids.
We are, however, now making a catalogue to
be put to press early next year.

The library is by law divided into two divis-
ions, law and miscellaneous, under one head.
Each division has a board of directors ; but they
never held a meeting, or ordered or purchased a
book. The law department is subdivided: i.
Elementary works, text-books, etc., arranged
alphabetically by authors. 2. Law reports,
statutes, and acts, alphabetically by States. 3.
Foreign books (except elementary) , by authors.
The miscellaneous department is subdivided :
I . General literature by subject ; all the books
on one subject in one fixed place. 2. Public
documents by States, territories, etc., alpha-
betically, and each State chronologically. 3.
Nebraska department of history. We have
within the last two years devoted some time to
the building up of our department of State
history, gathering and binding in suitable
volumes, as fast as materials accumulate,
pamphlets of all kinds, catalogues of schools,
addresses of our citizens, essays, sermons, etc.,
and when we publish our catalogue it will con-
tain an analytical index to this department. In
our work in this direction we endeavor to co-
operate with the public libraries in cities and
towns and the libraries of schools, colleges,
etc., by supplying them with copies of State
publications, reports of our public officers, and

such duplicates as we may have from time to
time. In return we receive local matter. And
I will add that, as far as possible, we are ready
and willing to do the same thing for any public
library in the country whose custodians take
sufficient interest to become members of this
Association, and ask for it. We endeavor to
become personally acquainted with the local
librarians, and otherwise do what we can to
develop the library interests of the State. In
Nebraska the law encourages public libraries in
cities and towns, and authorizes the levy of a
tax by the municipality, not exceeding one mill
on valuation each year, for their support. In
this department we aim to be something more
than a mere keeper of books. We make the
history of our own State, and its several sub-
divisions, a matter of some study. We aim to
acquire a thorough knowledge of our laws, the
sources from which they are derived, and the
judicial interpretations which have been placed
upon them. We disseminate this information
by answers to oral questions, by our daily mail,
and written contributions to the legal literature
of the State. Every State library, supported as
it is by the State, and yet, by its location at the
Capitol, practically inaccessible to the people,
except in their legislative capacity, should have
upon its shelves books which may contribute
towards the building up of a wise and judicious
system of laws for the State, and the custodian
of such library should possess a comprehensive
knowledge of the whole. We aim also to have
a practical working library. Hence old editions
of books give place to new in our law depart-
ment. We do not aim to keep any book,
except those concerning our own State, simply
because it is rare and choice, or of a certain age
or a certain edition. We study what we can
best do with our limited income, admitting but
little fiction on our shelves, and that only of
approved and standard authors. The wants of
the people who frequent the library are studied,
and assistance rendered them in their researches.
The library rooms are open earlier and closed
later than other public offices. They are not
even closed during cataloguing or annual clean-
ing. It would be poor management of any
library where such action was allowed. Our
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a year, the income resulting from the sales
above stated, and it seems as if this source of
support should commend itself to other States.
It places the library and the librarian on an in-
dependent footing, and gives an assured income
without the annoyance of running the legislative
gauntlet of an appropriation every year or two.
A large share of the income of every State
library must, of necessity, be expended in its
law department. The Supreme Court meets at
the capital ; here causes are argued and rights
of citizens adjudicated. There must be special
efforts in their direction, special knowledge, —
the knowledge, in fact, of a lawyer, — necessary
in the purchase of books. There are books of
“trash” even by law writers, not worthy of
a place on the shelves even of a library that

is capable of purchasing everything. In this
department Mr. Soule, of Boston, has placed
every law library under obligations. What
Poole’s “Index” is to the general library,
Soule’s “Lawyers’ Reference Manual” is to
the law library and lawyers generally. It renders
cataloguing up to the date of its publication
little more than the task of a copyist, and is the
best guide we have yet had in the selection of
books. In closing, let me express the pleasure
it gives one to be present at the meetings of
this Association. It is good, Mr. President, to
be here; to meet face to face, and to hear those
talk who have become gray in our profession,
and whose names have become familiar as
household words with our people.

THE WORK OF THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY LIBRARIAN FOR
THE LIBRARIAN OF THE TWENTIETH.^

BY R. R. BOWKER.

IT will be a chief glory of the nineteenth cen-
tury that it has organized knowledge. It is
thus that the man of the future, who will have
more to learn, will learn it more easily. He
has no longer to deal with isolated facts, for
each of which new shelf-room must be separ-
ately found in his crowded brain ; these .are
become types, links in a great chain, and one
volume is the index to an almost infinite series.
With classification, the principle of association,
that master-key which opens the doors of mem-
ory to all the chambers of the brain, gives the
clue to all. Knowledge increases, but there is
no longer confusion.

It is in this great work that the librarian has
his part. While the scientist is translating the
book of nature and rewriting its palimpsests,
it is for him to classify and catalogue the
records of ascertained knowledge, the literature

1 This paper was first read at the meeting of the Eng-
lish Association at Cambridge, and American readers
may care to know that the references at the close, as
explained to hearers at Buffalo, are to Richard Garnett,
Esq., Superintendent of the British Museum Reading
Room, and to Henry Bradshaw, Esq., Librarian of
Cambridge University. — R. R. B.

of the whole past, and so to bring the books to
readers and readers to books. He is the mer-
chant, the middle-man, of thought, and per-
forms in this field the function which political
economy recognizes as so important, of bring-
ing goods to the place where they are wanted,
and so, also, creating demand. In this busy
generation, when the hurried man grumbles that
“all the time there is” is not enough for him,
the librarian makes time for his fellow-mortals
by saving it ; for a minute saved is a minute
added. And this function of organizing, of in-
dexing, of time-saving and of thought-saving,
is associated peculiarly with the librarian of the
nineteenth century.

The librarian of old Assyria, though he
carried, professionally, “a brick in his hat,”
doubtless kept his head clear in the absence of
cataloguing rules and other perplexing prob-
lems. The librarian of the twentieth century,
who is to-day lying in his cradle, will have had
many of these problems settled for him as a
result of the library conferences and micro-
machia of these days. The librarian of to-day
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tion of the Scotch dominie, whose people
would have the new church built on the same
site, out of the materials of the old church, and
the old one left to worship in until the new one
was finished. He must use the materials of the
past in building for the future. He must care
for “vested rights,” conservatism, the old way
of doing things to which people are schooled,
while planning, in a spirit of prophecy, pro-
gressively toward the unattainable perfection.

As an apposite illustration of this dilemma,
and the way out of it, I may perhaps be allowed
to cite the considerations which led to the A. L. A.
system of size-notation. The confusion of past
nomenclature, as we all know, is beyond telling,
with its use of a given symbol to designate
everything and nothing : it might be the fold,
it might be the size of paper, it might be the
absolute size, it might be a publisher’s vague
idea of all together. But these symbols were
existing facts, however vague their significance.
8vo (at least in America) did convey this
vague significance both to the librarian, who
desired to range his books by size, and to the
reader, who had thus a mental picture of the
bigness of the book he aspired to consult. If
this old symbol were given up, this important
picture-sense would be lost ; on the other hand,
if it were preserved in the same shape, who
would know if the symbol meant the old vague-
ness or the new accuracy ?

It thus came about that the familiar picture-
name, octavo, was kept, while the symbol was
made definite by the use of the initial O to
designate a book between the limits of height
usually associated with that name. The reader
still saw in his mind the size of book he was
asking for, and the librarian had a clear key
to height for shelving purposes. Then came a
wider consideration. The world is growing
together ; users of books in England, or France,
or Germany, use books of Germany, or France,
or England, and, so far as may be, the parts of
the library system should be interchangeable.
Therefore the common language of the metric
system, which is likely to become in the twen-
tieth century also the usual language, was made
use of to define these sizes, and, happily, its
tens and fives were found to be practically coin-
cident with the general picture-notion of a book

in octavo, in duodecimo, etc. Thus the past
was utilized with a view to the future.

It should be mentioned that the A.L.A.
aimed at a system for practical use in handling
books, and contented itself with recommending
actual measurement for accurate bibliographical
registry. The committee of the L.A.U.K., I
take it, has the complementary work chiefly in
mind, the one scheme especially considering the
librarian, as such, and the reader, and the other
the bibliographer.

This work of the librarian is essentially new
and of the nineteenth century. In old days the
so-called man of science was too often content
to pick an unknown shell out of the rocks, call
it by his own name, and put it anywhere on his
shelves, agreeing with the Dominie, that if the
Creator chose to make the rocks like a plum-
pudding, there was no reason why he should
not. The keeper of a library, in like manner,
found his books in hand, and he kept them.
The official titles in the British Museum suggest
a past age. It is now the glory of the librarian
that he is a liberator more than a keeper : he
frees his books. The missionary relation of the
librarian to his readers is one of the discoveries
which the nineteenth century will hand along
to the twentieth.

The librarian of scarcely more than a gen-
eration ago came to his books to find them
housed, it might be, in a straggling confusion
of rooms ; ill-assorted, ill-catalogued, or not
catalogued at all ; half of them practically for-
gotten ; the reader barred out, by physical con-
ditions, or repressive rules, or his own perplex-
ities ; nor did the mere keeper of books see
anything very wrong in all this. The great
library was for scholars, and scholars should
know better than the librarian just what they
wanted in their own fields. The librarian him-
self, if he were at all alive, had his own specialty,
in which he did know, and his post was chiefly
an opportunity to preserve that specialty. Good
nature and kindliness might make him tolerant
and hospitable, but even the live men, the ex-
ceptions among librarians of the past, scarcely
recognized that, as librarians, they were mem-
bers of a liberal profession, and of one of the
most important among the liberal professions.

We cannot change all that in a day, or a

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generation, and some of it we would scarcely
change at all. The new librarian of the old
Bodleian finds himself confronted with the
very difficulty of straggling rooms, “upstairs
and downstairs^, and all about a quadrangle,”
that particularly distresses organizing minds ;
but who would have those venerated buildings
become new, associated with so much that is
noble in the far past, and not less with the
noble geniality of its last presiding spirit? The
librarian of to-day sets himself cheerfully to
make the best of such difficulties ; and how
much has the librarian of to-day already ac-
complished for his successor !

Whether the perfect library of the future
shall be the one great hall, walled with books,
with its effective appeal to the imagination, and
its artistic enticement to readers, its difficulties
of length and distance overcome by mechani-
cal devices for the delivery of books ; or Prof.
Winsor’s stack-house, like the railway terminus
with the offices in front become reading-rooms
and work-rooms ; or the circular library, with its
radial alcoves, inviting readers to the open
shelves under the all-controlling vision of the
librarian at the centre, as is Mr. Vinton’s plan
for a college library ; or Mr. Poole’s cellular
plan, so to speak, providing for growth by
rooms, each of which may be a specialized
library, within easy distance of a common focus,
— and it is more probable that each will still
prove fit for its special purpose, — this much is
settled, that the architect must build for the
librarian, and for the special purjDose, and be
taught of him, — and that is a great triumph.

Then as to cataloguing. Until this very con-
ference one might have said that the multiplica-
tion of books in the centuries, — happily few, as
a cataloguer is tempted to think, — since the in-
vention of printing, and the dreadful arrearages
of catalogue work, defy within our own time a
cataloguing even approximately complete ; but
Mr. Garrett’s announcement of the not unlikely
completion of a British Museum printed cata-
logue by the opening of the twentieth century
presents a truly millennial aspect. Once the
British Museum printed catalogue becomes a fact,
the Utopian universal catalogue becomes a cer-
tainty. A second alphabet of books in other
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closes, and the librarian of the twentieth cen-
tury has only to roll them into one, to insert
from time to time the discoveries that must
still be made, and to use the methods we are
already providing for the easy cataloguing of
the world’s accessions. And in that first fruit-
age of the new cooperation, the great Index to
Periodical Literature, for which the library
forces have been marshalled under the effective
generalship of Mr. Poole, we have another ex-
ample of arrearages of work cleared up before
it is too late, and a solid basis at last laid for
the sequent work of the future. Not only in
striking out new paths, but in clearing up these
accumulated arrearages of the centuries, is this
generation entitled to feel that it is making the
paths straight, and earning the gratitude of the
future. The Simplon is built across the Alps ;
it is an easier matter to keep it in order.

Cooperation in still other relations, assuring
appreciation of good work, is encouraging indi-
vidual enterprise, and promoting invention for
the common good. In America, we have at
least laid the foundation, in the American Cata-
logue, of a continuous trade bibliography, and
though the experiment of printing title-slips,
as actually tried, proved premature, the cata-
loguing rules of the A.L.A. are practically
carried out in the annotated weekly list of the
Publishers' Weekly, — a practice which must
sooner or later be followed , to the great advantage
of the smaller libraries, by the like journals in
England. Nor is it impossible that the pub-
lishers themselves will, before long, be per-
suaded to issue, each for his own publications,
a simply descriptive title-slip with each new
work. We still hope for the classified and anno-
tated “Coming Catalogue” of selected books
for small libraries ; but meanwhile the annotated
list of recommended books, introduced by Mr.
Cutter into the Library journal, and Mr.
Foster’s admirable special reference lists, are
doing much, and, with the establishment of an
adequate library journal on the English side
of the water, we shall be able to do much
joint work. Aside from the question of
library supplies, cooperation, doing once
for all, at a minimum of cost, and with
that approximate perfection which comes
from the union of experiences, the many

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things hitherto done imperfectly, at great cost
and waste, by many libraries, may fairly hope
to secure for the librarian of the twentieth cen-
tury, and perhaps for ourselves before the
twentieth century comes, those two great needs,
more money for books and more adequate pay
for the librarian. It chiefly behooves us, build-
ing a fair basis for the future, not to attempt
and to expect too much ; to make haste slowly ;
not to rashly ignore and put aside the old in
planning for the new ; and to remember that
cooperation does not mean a rigid uniformity,
and that, among many varieties of situation and
circumstance, the best way is often a relative
term.

I have made bold to bring forward these few
generalizations, these platitudes, because there
isa certain inspiration, and even present reward,
in the feeling that present work is to bear its
results in the future, in the sense of the immor-
tality of influence that comes of passing along
the torch from generation to generation. The

librarian of the twentieth century, for whom we
are working, ought to be much better and do much
better than his illustrious predecessors. But,
thinking of this, I see before me a great rotunda,
where the tide of readers flows and never ebbs,
and, in its centre, a tall, noted figure, hat on
head, affably eager to answer every question
that gaps in catalogue, or on shelves, or in
querist’s brain may suggest, and still fresh, after
the long day’s work, with ready pen, to help
books and men, — the more unknown and unbe-
friended the more ready he, — to friends and fame.
And I see within college walls, in cap and gown,
or, doffing both as he comes in among the
younger men to whom his rooms are home,
a placid, cheery, large-hearted man, who,
like an older brother, gathers the men about him
into almost family relations, and, with a kindli-
ness all his own, forwards and helps and quietly
inspires all. And I wonder if the librarian of
the twentieth century will improve on these ?

PLAN FOR NUMBERING CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENTS.

BY JOHISr EDMANDS, LIBRARIAN OF THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION,

PHILADELPHIA.

Many libraries have some of the volumes of
the set known as the Congressional Docu-
ments. None has the complete collection.
Most of the libraries expect to obtain additional
volumes. The numbering of these fragmentary
sets of volumes in such a way that future acces-
sions will fall easily into their proper places
has been in many libraries a matter of great
difficulty.

The new system of classing and numbering
which I have devised and put in operation in
the Mercantile Library of Philadelphia affords
an easy solution of this difficulty. In this
classification, F is the general designation of
American History; and Fo, Fp, Fr, and Ft,
designate, respectively. History of the United
States, general. Constitutional and Document-
ary History, Political History, and Industrial
and Statistical History. The individual books
in each section have their own proper number.

Thus, Schouler’s History is Fo, 8025, and
Elliot’s Debates, Fp, 2608. These Congres-
sional Documents might properly be placed in
the second of the above divisions, and would
have been so placed but for the impossibility of
satisfactorily numbering them there. Instead
of that I form them into a separate sub-class,
which I designate Fu. And in place of the
numbers used in the other sections I put on
them, in abbreviation, the names by which the
several qjasses of these documents are called,
and also the number of the Congress and the
session by which they were issued. The
abbreviations which I use are these : —

H. D. 1= Executive Documeuts of the House.
H. J. — Journal “

n. M. m Miscellaneous Documents “

H. R.= Reports of Committees “

H. S. = Special Reports “

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251

S. D. = Executive Documents of the Senate.
S. J. =: Journal “

S. M. = Miscellaneous Documents “

S. R. = Reports of Committees “

S. S. Special Reports “

I place the books on the shelves in this order
as a matter of convenience, and as the natural
alphabetical order, in preference to the usual
one used in the catalogue of the Public Library
of Boston.

The full marking of a set of these Docu-
ments for any one session will be this : —

Fu Fu Fu Fu Fu Fu Fu Fu Fu Fu

II. D. II.J. II. M. II. R. II.S. S.D. S.J. S.M. S.K. S.S.

47> I 47. I 47. I 47. i 47. i 47. i 47. * 47. » 47. » 47. ^

This plan assigns a definite designation and
place to every volume of the collection, is easily
understood, even by novices in the library, and
provides for marking satisfactorily any frag-
mentary lots of these books that any library
may have, and any others that may be sub-
sequently obtained.

CONDENSED RULES FOR AN AUTHOR AND TITLE CATALOG.

PREPARED BY THE COOPERATION COMMITTEE, A. L. A.^

ENTRY.

OOKS are to be entered under the :

Surnames of authors when ascertained,
the abbreviation 'Anon." being added to
the titles of anonymous works. (la

Initials of authors’ names when these only are
known, the last initial being put first. (lb
Pseudonyms of the writers when the real names
are not ascertained. (Ic

Names of editors of collections, each separate
item to be at the same time sufficiently cata-
logd under its own heading. • (Id

Names of countries, cities, societies, or other
bodies which are responsible for their publica-
tion. (le

First word (not an article or serial number)
of the titles of periodicals and of anonymous
books, the names of whose authors are not
known. And a motto or the designation of
a series may be neglected when it begins a
title, and the entry may be made under the
first word of the real title following. (If

1 These rules are intended to present only the outlines of
cataloging; for definitions, the discussion of peculiar
cases, and illustrative examples, see Cutter’s Rules,
published by the U. S. Bureau of Education as Part 2 of
its special report on libraries. The rules of the L. A. U.
K. were printed in the Library jour7ial, 6 : 315-316. The
Bodleian cataloging rules are given as an appendix to the
Proceedings at this Convention (p. 136).

Com7nentaries accompanying a text and trans-
lations are to be entered under the heading
of the original work ; but commentaries with-
out the text under the name of the com-
mentator. A book entitled “Commentary
on ... ” and containing the text should be
put under both. (Ig

The Bible, or any part of it (including the
Apocrypha), in any language, is to be en-
tered under the word Bible. (Ih

The Talmud and Koran (and parts of them) are
to be entered under those words ; the sacred
books of other religions are to be entered
under the names by which they are generally
known ; references to be given from the names
of editors, translators, etc. (li

The respondent or defender of an academical
thesis is to be considered as the author, un-
less the work unequivocally appears to be the
work of the praeses. (Ij

Books having more than one author to be en-
tered under the one first named in the title
with a reference from each of the others. (Ik
Reports of civil actions are to be entered under
the name of the party to the suit which
stands first on the title-page. Reports of
crown and ^criminal proceedings are to be
entered under the name of the defendant.
Admiralty proceedings relating to vessels are
to be put under the name of the vessel. (11

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Noble77ten are to be entered under their titles,
unless the family name is decidedly better
known. (Im

Ecclesiastical dignitaries, unless popes or
sovereigns, are to be entered under their sur-
names. (In

Sovereigns (other than Greek or Roman) »
r7iling princes^ 07'ie7ital writers, popes,
friars, perso7is cano7iized, and all other
persons known 07ily by their first name, are to
be entered under this first name (lo

Married wo77ie7t, and other persons who have
changed their names, are to be put under the
last well-known form. (Ip

A pse7ido7iy77i may be used instead of the sur-
name (and only a reference to the pseudonym
made under the surname) when an author is
much more known by his false than by his
real name. In case of doubt use the real
name. (Iq

A society is to be entered under the first
word, not an article, of its corporate name,
with references from any other name by
which it is known, especially from the name
of the place where its head-quarters are estab-
lished, if it is often called by that name. (Ir
References. — When an author has been known
by more than one name, references should be
inserted from the name or names not to be
used as headings to the one used. (Is

References are also to be made to the headings
chosen :

from the titles of all novels and plays and of
poems likely to be asked for by their
titles ; (It

from other striking titles ; (lu

from noticeable words in anonymous titles,
especially from the names of subjects of
anonymous biographies ; (Iv

from the names of editors of periodicals, when
the periodicals are generally called by the
editor’s name ; (Iw

from the names of important translators (espe-
cially poetical translators) and commenta-
tors ; (lx

from the title of an ecclesiastical dignitary,
when that, and not the family name, is used
in the book catalogd 5 (ly

and in other cases where a reference is needed
to insure the ready finding of the book. (Iz

HEADINGS.

In the heading of titles, the names of authors
are to be given in fidl, and in their vernacu-
lar form, except that the Latin form may be
used when it is more generally known, the
vernacular form being added in parentheses ;
except, also, that sovereigns and popes may
be given in the English form. (2a

English and French surnames beginning with a
prefix (except the French de and d’) are to
be recorded under the prefix ; in other
languages under the word following; (2b
English co7npou7id surnames are to be entered
under the last part of the name ; foreign
ones under the first part ; (2c

Designations are to be added to distinguish
writers of the sa7nena77ie from each other ; (2d
Prefixes indicating the rank or professio7i of
writers may be added in the heading, when
they are part of the usual designation of the
writers. (2e

Names of places to be given in the English
form. When both an English, and a vernac-
ular form are used in English works, prefer
the vernacular. (2f

TITLES.

The title is to be an exact transcript of the
title-page, neither amended, translated, nor
in any way altered, except that mottoes,
titles of authors, repetitions, and matter
of any kind not essential, are to be 077iitted.
Where great accuracy is desirable, omissions
are to be indicated by a group of three dots
(...). The titles of books especially valuable
for antiquity or rarity may be given in full,
with all practicable precision. The phrase-
ology and spelling, but not necessarily the
punctuation, of the title are to be exactly
copied. (3a

Any additions needed to make the title clear
are to be supplied and enclosed by
brackets. (3b

Initial capitals are to be given in E7iglish : (3c

to proper names of persons and personifica-
tions, places, bodies, noted events, and
periods (each separate word not an article,
conjunction, or preposition, may be capital-
ized in these cases ) ; (3d

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253

to adjectives and other derivatives from
proper names when they have a direct refer-
ence to the person, place, etc., from which
they are derived ; (3e

to the first Word of every sentence and of
every quoted title ; (3f

to titles of honor when standing instead of a
proper name the Earl of Derby, but

John Stanley, earl of Derby) ; (3g

In foreign languages, according to the local
usage ; (3h

In doubtful cases capitals are to be avoided. (3i
Foreign languages. — Titles in foreign charac-
ters may be transliterated. The languages
in which a book is written are to be stated
when there are several, and the fact is not
apparent from the title. (3)

[A committee of the A. L. A. has been directed to pre-
pare a code of rules for transliteration.]

IMPRINTS.

After the title are to be given, in the following
order, those in [ ] being optional : —
the edition ; (4a

the flace of publication ; (4b

[and the publisher''s name] (these three in
the language of the title) ; (4c

the year as given on the title-page, but in
Arabic figures ; (4d

[the year of copyright or actual publication,
if known to be different, in brackets,

and preceded by c. or p. as the case may
be] ; (4e

the number of volumes^ or of pages if there
is only one volume ; (4f

[the number of maps, portraits, or illustra-
tions not included in the text] ; (4g

and either the approximate size designated by
letter (see Library journal, 3:19-20), or

the exact size in centimeters ; (4h

the name of the series to which the book
belongs is to be given in parentheses after
the other imprint entries. (4i

After the place of publication, the place of
printing may be given, if different. This is
desirable only in old and rare books. (4]
The number of pages is to be indicated by giv-
ing the last number of each paging, connect-
ing the numbers by the sign 4- ; the addition
of unpaged matter may be shown by a -f-, or

the number of pages ascertained by counting
may be given in brackets. When there are
more than three pagings, it is better to add
them together and give the sum in brackets.

These imprint entries are to give the facts,
whether ascertained from the book or from
other sources ; those which are usually taken
from the title (edition, place, publisher’s
name, and series) should be in the language
of the title, corrections and additions being
enclosed in brackets. It is better to give
the words, “maps,” “portraits,” etc., and
the abbreviations for “volumes” and
“pages,” in English. (4k

CONTENTS, NOTES.

Notes (in English) and contents of volumes
are to be given when necessary to
properly describe the works. Both notes
and lists of contents to be in a smaller
type. (5a

MISCELLANEOUS.

A single dash or indent indicates the omission
of the preceding heading; a subsequent
dash or indent indicates the omission of a
subordinate heading, or of a title. (6a

A dash connecting numbers signifies to and in-
cluding; following a number it signifies con-
tinuation. (6b

A ? following a word or entry signifies
probably. (6c

Brackets enclose words added to titles or im-
prints or changed in form. (6d

Arabic figures are to be used rather than Ro-
man ; but small capitals may be used after
the names of sovereigns, princes, and popes.

(6e

A list of abbreviations to be used was given in
Library journal, 3: 16-20. (6f

ARRANGEMENT.

The surname when used alone precedes the
same name used with fore-names ; where the
initials only of the fore-names are given, they
are to precede fully written fore-names
beginning with the same initials, (^.^.,
Brown; Brown, J. ; Brown, J. L. ; Brown,
James.) (7a

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254

The prefixes M‘ and Me, S., St., Ste., Messrs.,
Mr., and Mrs., are to be arranged as if writ-
ten in full, Mac, Sanctus, Saint, Sainte, Mes-
sieurs, Mister, and Mistress. (7b

The works of an author are to be arranged in
the following order : —

(7c
(7d

3. Single works, alphabetically by the
first word of the title. (ye

The order of alphabeting is to be that of the
English alphabet. (yf

The German ae, oe, ue, are always to be written
a, b, ii, and arranged as a, o, u. (yg

Names of persons are to precede similar names
of places, which in turn precede similar first
words of titles. (yh

1. Collected works.

2. Partial collections.

PROCEEDINGS.

255

THE PROCEEDINGS.

FIRST SESSION.

(Tuesday Morning.)

The sixth general meeting of the Associa-
tion was called to order at 10.. 30 A.M., August
14, 1883, in the Executive Committee Room of
the Young Men’s Library at Buffalo. On mo-
tion of Mr. Dewey, Secretary, Mr. C: Alex.
Nelson, of the Astor Library, New York, was
elected Assistant Secretary. The President,
Mr. Justin Winsor, reminded the Association
that they were, to a certain extent, the guests
of the Young Men’s Association of Buffalo,
and it would be proper to listen to some words
of welcome from the President of that body,
Mr. E: B. Smith.

ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT SMITH.

Ladies and gentlemen., members of the Amer-
ican Library Association^ — In behalf of the
Young Men’s Association and Grosvenor Li-
braries, I esteem it a great pleasure to extend a
hearty welcome to those of your number who
have come from a distance to participate in the
important deliberations for which you have
here assembled.

I feel warranted in saying for the people of
Buffalo generally, that they are honored by
your presence in our midst, and will unite with
us in making your stay agreeable.

The assembling here for several years past
of representatives of learned societies has
awakened in our citizens an interest in what-
ever tends to lift us out of the rut and routine
of our humdrum business lives, and given new
encouragement to the growth of our literary,
art, and scientific institutions.

We trust that our steady steps of progress
in this direction have reached a point from
which we may look hopefully to the future.

At this time an earnest effort is being made
to erect a commodious fire-proof building for
the permanent home of our libraries and other
kindred societies, — the academy of fine arts
and that of natural sciences.

If this enterprise is successful, we shall have
a building which, by its size, architectural
beauty, and fitness for purposes for which it is

designed, will be an ornament to our city, the
pride of our people, and a centre of attraction
to strangers in our midst.

I trust that your interest may be so far en-
listed in our project that you will aid us by
such practical suggestions as may spring from
your abundant knowledge of the subject of
modern construction of library buildings.

With the expression of a hope that your
meeting in Buffalo may be crowned with sub-
stantial results, I will forbear trespassing any
further upon your valuable time, repeating the
assurances of a most cordial welcome to you
all.

President Winsor then delivered the open-
ing address.

{^See f. 163.)

secretary’s report.

Mr. Dewey, Seci*etary, reported orally : —

There has been the usual routine work in the
general offices during the year. Constant in-
quiries about starting new and remodelling old
libraries have come in. The year has been
noticeable for the number of great gifts to li-
braries and the number of fine new buildings.
Among other recent beneficiaries I casually
note Amherst and Columbia Colleges, the Uni-
versity of Vermont, Lehigh and Cornell Uni-
versities, Providence, Toronto, Pittsburgh,
Baltimore, and Northampton, etc. Never has
there been so much practical interest shown
by wealthy men in libraries. The most hope-
ful sign, however, is the great number of
smaller libraries springing up all over the
country, and the admirable spirit inspiring
their promoters. Many beside our actual mem-
bers are earnestly working under our banner
of “ the best reading for the largest number.”
Our excellent plan of Sections and yearly Re-
porters relieves me of most of the topics perti-
nent to my report. I wish again to urge on
all members the importance of sending to each
yearly Reporter everything bearing on his
topic.

The new Treasurer has proved the best man
on the Board this year, as his report will prac-
tically show.

BUFFALO CONFERENCE.

256

Those of jou who noted the destruction of
the old offices in 32 Hawley st. bj fire will be
glad to know that nearly all our A.L.A. collec-
tions were saved, and that the building is nearly
rebuilt, and much better than before. Mr.
Davidson, who was with me as First Assistant
as early as 1876, when the Association was
started, will continue the work of the Library
Bureau in the new building. The various De-
partments (Employment, Consultation, Cata-
log, Index, etc.) have proved increasingly
useful during the year, and clearly met a real
want. The Library manual, on which I have
been at work for years, is going forward now
more rapidly, and will go to press, I hope, be-
fore our next meeting. The call for the detailed
information which it will give leads me to hope
that it will be practically very useful. Of the
A.L.A. Catalog I am to give a brief oral
report later. In summary, the usefulness and
influence of the A.L.A. have been greater than
ever before, and are constantly extending.

FINANCE.

Mr. S: S. Green, chairman of the Finance
Committee, read his accounts with the Asso-
ciation.

Samuel S. Green, Chair7nan of the Finance
Committee of the American Library Asso-
ciation, in account ■with the Association : —

1882. Dr.

May ii. To balance from last ac-
count

31. To membership and assess-
ment fees received before
or at the meeting in Cin-
cinnati

31. To books, etc., sold for
Meivil Dewey, at Cin-
cinnati meeting . . .

Aug. 9. To assessments received
after the Cincinnati meet-
ing

Cr.

May 31. By Charles Hamilton,
postal-cards and print-
ing

June I. Cash paid to Meivil Dewey
Amount cari'ied foutvard.

$244 40

104 00

8 25

16 00
$372 65

^3 25
8 25

$11 50

Amount brought forvjard.,

$ii 50

June 12.

W. F. Poole, to paid bill of
Charles D. Rubel & Co.,

for printing

3 50

Sept. 5.

Express on package sent to

J. L. Whitney, Treasurer,

By check sent to James L.

Whitney, Treasurer .

Samuel S. Green,

357 50

$372 65

Chairman of the Finance Co77imittee
of the American Library Association.

A statement, of which this is a duplicate, was
examined by us during the meeting at Buffalo,
in August, 1883, compared with the vouchers,
and found to be con*ect.

J. N. Larned,

W. E. Foster,

Of the Finance Conijnittee A.L.A.

treasurer’s report.

Mr. J. L. Whitney, Treasurer, presented
his annual report.

On examining the account books of the Asso-
ciation soon after my appointment as Treasurer,
I found considerable irregularities in the pay-
ments of the dues of members. Some had
paid regularly, while others, for various rea-
sons, had neglected so to do. It seemed to me,
therefore, that a letter written to each member,
instead of the printed circular which it had
been the custom to send, might obtain a quicker
response, and at least enable the Association
to get more direct and exact information in re-
gard to its members. I therefore sent over
four hundred letters to those whose names ap-
peared upon the books, giving a statement of
the account of each person with the Treasurer.

The responses were numerous, many mem-
bers sending the amounts due from them.
Qiiite a number gave notice of discontinuance
of membership, some, because they had
abandoned library work, others on account
of their distance from the members of the
Association and its meetings, and others still
because, having fallen behindhand in the
payment of their dues, they did not feel able to
make good the deficiency. Several members
have died since the list of members was pub-
lished, in 1879.

PROCEEDINGS.

257

As nearly as can be estimated, there are now-
eighteen life members of the Association, and
about three hundred regular members. Of the
last mentioned, three have paid their dues to
the end of 1884, forty-one through 1883
(formal request has not yet been made for the
payment for 1883) ; one hundred through 1882 ;
thirty-nine through 1881; eight through 1880;
sixty-five through 1879; sixteen through 1878;
eleven through 1877; and six through 1876.

It may be said that of those who have not
paid recently, a large part joined the Associa-
tion in its early days to help give it an impetus,
and others since that time to participate in its
social pleasures and excursions, with little
thought of indefinite continuance as members.
A revision of the list would seem to be desir-
able, with perhaps a division into two classes :
I. Regular members. 2. Associate members,
— non-librarians, for the most part, who might
feel at liberty to come and go at pleasure, leav-
ing the working librarians a more compact and
manageable body. The Treasurer would then
feel less anxiety by reason of the long list of
those who fail to respond to his call.

The following is the account of the Treasurer
with the Association : —

1882.

Dr.

Sept.

1883.

1882.

9.— To amount received
from S. S. Green,

Chairman of the Fi-
nance Committee . . $357 50

— To membership dues
received to August 9,

1883 377 45

To interest received
to June I, 1883 . . . 475

$739 70

Cr.

Oct. 13. — By cash paid Rock-
well & Churchill for
printing Report of

Convention, at Cin-
cinnati $225 94

1883.

Jan. I. — By M. Dewey, bill
for expenses of Secre-
tary 41 17

Feb. 12. — By F. P. Hathaway,

bill for binding . . 5 50

Amount carried forward., $272 61

Amount brought forward, $272 61
Feb. 26. — By F. Leypoldt, bill
for paper for Cincin-
nati report .... 18 27

Aug. 9. — By Treasurer’s ex-
penses, stationery,
postage-stamps, ex-
pressage, etc. ... 13 50

$304 38

By cash balance . . 435 32

$739 70

Dr.

1883.

Aug. 10. — To balance on

hand $435 32

All of which is on deposit at the Middlesex
Institution for Savings, Concord, Massachu-
setts.

James L. Whitney,

Treasurer.

Concord, Massachusetts, August 9, 1883.

Examined, with vouchers, and found correct.

Samuel S. Green,

J. N. Earned,

W. E. Foster,

Finance Com. Amer. Lib. Ass’n.

Mr. S: S. Green, referring to a suggestion
in the Treasurer’s report, moved that the sub-
ject of the division of members into regular
and associate be referred to the Executive
Board, with full powers, which was voted.

On motion of Judge Chamberlain, the Re-
ports of the Chairman of the Finance Com-
mittee and of the Treasurer were referred to
the Finance Committee to be audited.

Mr. Green called the attention of members
to the large balance in the treasury.

Mr. Dewey said that it was wholly due to
the fact that the Treasurer had been sitting up
nights, writing letters persistently, all over the
country, dunning delinquents.

PUBLIC DOCUMENTS.

The Committee of the Association appointed
to try to secure from Congress provision for
the distribution of public documents that
would be satisfactory to libraries, consisting of
Samuel S. Green, A. R. Spofford, J. S. Bil-

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lings, J: W. M. Lee, and Chester W. Merrill,
made a majority and minority report.

Mr. Green, in reading the report of the ma-
jority, called attention to an article published
by himself in the Library jotir7ial^ for Sep-
tember, 1882, which gives an account of im-
portant legislation had at the last session but
one of Congress (47th Congress, ist session),
and describes valuable printed lists of docu-
ments, which have been recently issued.

A joint resolution passed at that session of
Congress provides that every document and
report ordered to be printed by Congress shall
be sent to designated depositories, that is,
practically, to all the large libraries of the
country.

At the same session of Congress (47th Con-
gress, ist session) the following resolution
was passed by the House of Representatives : —

‘■'•Resolved^ That the Librarian of Congress,
the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution,
and the Superintendent of Documents, Depart-
ment of the Interior, be and they are hereby
requested to compile the laws and regulations
now in force governing the printing and distri-
bution of public documents : to prepare a tab-
ulated statement showing the number of docu-
ments printed by order of the Fortj’-Sixth,
and the first session of the Forty-Seventh
Congress, and under general laws now in
force, and the disposition directed to be made
of the same, and to report what reductions
should be made in the number of such docu-
ments, and to present such other information
at their command, relating to public docu-
ments, as will tend to promote judicious legisla-
tion, and submit the draft of a bill to pro-
vide for the printing and distribution of docu-
ments ; and they shall report to the House at
the beginning of the next session.”

In compliance with this resolution a report
(with a proposed bill and resolutions providing
for the printing and distribution of public doc-
uments ) was made to the House of Represen-
tatives at its last session (47th Congress, 2d
session). Copies of this report, etc., may be
had on application to Rev. J. G. Ames, Super-
intendent of Documents, Department of the
Interior.

When this report was presented, Mr. Green
stated that he had a postal-card printed, which
he sent to the librarians of several libraries in
large cities, asking them to write letters to

members of the Senate Committee on Print-
ing, requesting them to act favorably on the
report, bill, and resolutions. Many libraries
responded to this request, but no legislation
was had at this session of Congress.

The committee, with the exception of Dr.
Billings, recommended that the following peti-
tion be circulated freely among the librarians
of the country for signatures, and sent to Con-
gress at its next session : —

To the House of Representatives of the United
States in Congress assembled^ —

We, the undersigned, librarians of public and
other libraries within the United States, do
most respectfully but earnestly invite the atten-
tion of your honorable body to the inadequate
provisions now in force for the supply of said
libraries with the publications of the govern-
ment.

In our experience we have found that, with
few exceptions, the libraries of the country are
sadly overlooked in the distribution of these
publications ; that but few are in regular receipt
of the same ; that perhaps not a single library in
the land, save the Library of Congress, receives
a copy of each document printed by the govern-
ment; that most, even of the large libraries, are
lamentably deficient in public documents that
are of greatest value to the public; that, often,
the issue of important publications is not known
to libraries until the edition is distributed and
copies no longer obtainable except by purchase,
sometimes at exorbitant prices, from dealers in
the same, and that under the existing system of
printing and distributing public documents it
is impossible for most of the libraries of the
country to secure anything approaching a com-
plete file of the current publications of the
government.

In view of these facts, and believing that it
will be regarded as an indisputable proposition
that public, university, college, and school
libraries should be accorded the first place in
the distribution of public documents, we most
respectfully present this our petition that such
modification of the laws relating to this subject
may be made as will secure to these libraries
the regular and permanent supply of public
documents, independently of all personal solic-
itation or courtesy, and as will provide the
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to publications ordered and issued by the
government.

It is believed that this will involve no in-
crease in the number of documents printed, but
only a more judicious and systematic distribu-
tion of the same.

The undersigned respectfully refer your hon-
orable body to the report presented to the last
Congress by Mr. J. G. Ames, Superintendent
of Documents, Prof. S. F. Baird, Secretary of
the Smithsonian Institution, and Mr. A. R.
Spofford, Librarian of Congress, and to the
proposed act and resolutions recommended in
said report, which proposed act and resolutions,
so far as they relate to libraries and to the
supply of information regarding the issue of
public documents, we most heartily approve,
believing that their enactment and adoption
will in a large measure remedy existing evils,
give general satisfaction to the libraries of the
country, and promote the public good.

Mr. Green stated that Dr. Billings, of Wash-
ington, who would make the minority report,
representing his own views and that of other
heads of bureaus and departments in Washing-
ton, had acted heartily with the committee in
trying to bring about a distribution of public
documents that would be satisfactory to li-
brarians.

Dr. J. S. Billings, of the U.S. Surgeon
General’s office. — I should hardly dignify
what I have to say as a minority report ; but,
I think, it would be well, in suggesting action
by Congress on this matter, to bear in mind
the wishes and interests of the various depart-
ments and heads of bureaus in Washington,
and also those of scientific men, so far, at
least, as relates to those special scientific or
technological reports issued by the govern-
ment, and it is to this class of reports that
I confine my remarks. The object of a head
of a bureau, or of a department, in issuing this
class of reports is to place them in the hands
of those who are especially interested in the
subject, and who have contributed information
or material used in the reports ; and, also, to
obtain exchanges from societies and individuals
who publish reports or documents on subjects
connected especially with the work of the
department. Scientific men, and scientific
societies, are also especially desirous of obtain-
ing these documents, and it seems probable that
if the distribution of them were left to the

heads of bureaus and departments they would be
most likely to come into the hands of those
who would appreciate them and make the best
use of them ; also, in this way the United States
would be able to obtain, by way of exchange,
the most useful and valuable returns for them.
I think there is no doubt that the heads of
departments and bureaus, and the scientific
men who are working in or for them, will very
strongly object to having the distribution of
their reports and documents of this kind placed
under the control of a single bureau of a single
department. On the other hand, I am quite as
desirous as any one that these reports should
go to the principal libraries of this country,
and that they should be sent there promptly
and regularly; and it appears to me that this
can be done without interfering with the distri-
bution by the several departments above
referred to, and without creating any special
bureau of supervision. So far as reports and
books, which do not contain separate plates,
are concerned, it is only necessary to provide
that the government printer shall be furnished
with a list of all the libraries entitled to
receive such reports, and be authorized and
directed to print, in addition to the number
ordered for the use of the department, a suffi-
cient number to supply these libraries, and to
send the copies to them direct. The same
authority should be given in those cases where
the plates for the work are prepared under the
direction of the government printer. In
those cases in which a fixed appropriation is
made for the preparation of costly plates, as
for example, was done for the plates of the
Medical and Surgical History of the War,
the supply for the libraries should be taken,
not from the number allotted to the depart-
ment, but from the number allotted to members
of Congress for distribution.

It appears to me that, under existing laws, the
libraries designated as depositories for public
documents should receive copies of everything
printed at the government printing-office ;
but that, as they have to wait until members
of Congress are supplied, and, also, until the
copies destined for them can be bound, this
often gives rise to a delay of a year, or even
more, before they obtain their supply. This,
however, might be avoided by their taking the
documents unbound, and having them sent
directly from the government printing-office.

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instead of through the intermedium of a dis-
tributing bureau. I wish co be distinctly
understood as not in any way opposing the
furnishing of all such reports to all public
libraries of any size throughout the country.
I think they are fully entitled to receive copies
of everything that is printed for gratuitous
distribution by the United States; but I also
think it extremely desirable that those scientific
men who are especially interested in particular
subjects should not have their supply of govern-
ment reports cut off, and that the bureaus and
departments should not be deprived of that
stimulus and incentive to work which comes
from the power of distributing their own
reports and obtaining exchanges for them, and
placing it on the lowest possible ground, viz.,
as a mere question of policy. It seems to me
that the librarians should take into considera-
tion the wishes of these bureaus and scientists
in recommending any particular action to Con-
gress upon this matter.

Rev. Dr. B. K. Peirce, Supt. Newton
(Mass.) Free Library. — There appears to be
so much harmony between the reports that the
only question is as to the best way to secure
this end. The committee, by conference, might
harmonize their differences. We who are
interested in public libraries are interested in
securing all these important documents. I
move that both reports be referred back to the
committee.

Mr. J. N. Larned, of the Young Men’s
Library, Buffalo, moved as an amendment that
the President, Mr. Poole, of Chicago, and Mr.
Linderfelt, of Milwaukee, be added to the
original committee, and that this committee
take further cognizance of the whole matter,
and report at a later session.

The motion passed as amended.

A.L.A. CATALOG.

Mr. Dewey reported progress on the
A.L.A. Catalog : —

To bring the matter more clearly to mind let
me very briefly summarize the history of the
A.L.A. Catalog. After proposing the scheme,
with considerable detail, in the Library jour-
nal^ I submitted it to our Boston meeting in
1879. received with no little enthusiasm.

I took nearly $1,200 in subscriptions without
leaving the floor, thus guaranteeing the publi-
cation under the circumstances then existing.

We were to make about 250 pages, 20 titles to
the page, classified by subjects, and with the
most useful very brief notes we could prepare
or “ appropriate ” from our best annotated
catalogs and class-lists. This class-list of the
5,000 best books for a general library, repre-
senting both in titles and notes the combined
wisdom of our Association, was at once begun
by Mr. F: B. Perkins, editor of the “ Best
reading, ” etc., who resigned at the Boston
Public Library, and took up quarters at the
general offices of the A.L.A., in 32 Hawley
street, Boston. Lists were made or checked
by specialists, and much preliminary work was
well started, when Mr. Perkins was called west
by his election in San Francisco, and was
forced to stop all outside work. My own
duties grew doubly pressing, and really no ad-
vance editorial work has been done since.

We have, however, not abandoned the work,
but have been looking for the right editor.
The Executive Board and the Cooperation
Committee have considered several plans, and
finally, at our last meeting, it was put into
the hands of the Codperation Committee, the
Finance Committee, and the Secretary, with
full power, except that no plan should be
adopted which should involve the Association
in any expense.

This new committee of seven are soon to
meet, and try once more to secure a satisfactory
editor. My report, is therefore, of progress.
During all these delays constant inquiries for
the A.L.A. Catalog have come to me, and
an extraordinary number of people have ex-
pressed the greatest interest in its early com-
pletion, and faith in its great usefulness.

Mr. Poole. — The subscriptions for the
A.L.A. Catalog, which Mr. Dewey says he
has brought with him, were made three years
ago at the meeting in Boston, and with the
understanding that the work would be com-
pleted very soon. These expectations, for
which no person present is responsible, have
not been realized, and it does not appear in Mr.
Dewey’s report how or by whom he expects
the work to be done. The project is still in the
shadowy futui'e. I am confident it will remain
a subject of annual prophecy and discussion
until some competent librarian accepts the duty
and responsibility of chief editor, puts his own
labor and individuality into it, and calls upon
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he needs. Committees are not worth a farthing
to do such work. I do not believe it to be a
legitiniate function of our Association to pub-
lish books, or to take up subscriptions among
ourselves to defray the expenses of their publi-
cation. Whatever we, as members of the
American Library Association, are likely, in the
line of bibliography, to cooperate in doing,
is merchantable property, and needs no sub-
scriptions in money to carry it through. Pub-
lishers will be glad to assume the expense and
pay a copyright for the same. We have had
too much talk and too little action during these
years about the A.L.A. Catalog. If I had
a tithe of the interest in it which Mr. Dewey
and other members have expressed, I would
have done it myself ; for I have made half a
dozen lists of books for new libraries of about
the number of volumes proposed, while this
project has been under discussion. The work
could be done in six months. I make this
estimate on the assumption that the selection
of the “five thousand best books for a small
library ” would express simply the judgment
of the chief editor. If the list were submitted
to a committee, and they were expected to agree,
my estimate would be widely erroneous. A
position on that committee would not be an
enviable one, and might prove to be a life
estate. This is a good time for a new depart-
ure. We have talked enough about the mat-
ter. Let the old subscriptions be cancelled ;
let Mr. Dewey himself assume the duties of
chief editor, and call upon us for cooperation
if he needs it. I have heard of one or more
New York publishers who were seeking for a
model catalog of books for small libraries,
and who will bear all the expenses and pay a
copyright. The problem which has vexed us
for these many years will then have been solved.

Mr. Dewey. — May I remind our Nestor of
librarians that we have now waited onlj^ four
years for the A.L.A. Catalog. We had to wait
thirty for Poole’s Index, and yet we are all
proud of it, in spite of the delay. I trust in a
much shorter time we can show an A.L.A.
Catalog of which we shall be equally proud.

Dr. Homes, N.Y. State Library. — If 5,000
titles are to be included in the original cata-
log, the supplement should include 500 to
1,000 titles. We ought to print a complete
volume for appearance’ sake.

Mr. B. P. Mann, of Washington. — Is the

catalog to include 5,000 titles only, and when
new titles are put in are old ones to go out.?
Are you to drop a title for every title added.?

Mr. Dewey. — Only those that are super-
seded are to be dropped out, the additions will
constantly increase the scope of the work.

Mr. Mann. — If the number of titles is to be
limited, the several classes should be classified
and a certain number of titles assigned to
each. If this be the plan, call on geologists to
select say forty best works on geology, and so
on. Then why can we not begin at once.?

Mr. Dewey. — This work has already partly
been done, and is the plan in view. Lists from
many specialists have been collected and partly
edited by Mr. F: B. Perkins. We have a good
start, and only lack a competent editor to com-
plete the work.

Mr. J. Edmands, of Philadelphia. — This
catalog is to be of special benefit to the very
large number of small libraries, to be as a
guide in selecting their collection in due pro-
portion. It will fail of this if printed in sec-
tions. Better print in full. Let the com-
mittee work on with about 5,000 titles, and do
the best they can, and revise according to the
demands of the times. Use more faith, and
get it all out together.

Dr. Peirce. — There is a great interest in
this catalog, and it will do great good. There
is good in both suggestions. The effect of this
Association is felt all over the United States,
and new libraries are being established. The
requisition is for a list for new libraries. We at
Newton had the aid of Mr. Poole. The need of
the new institutions is a standard list for their
foundation to fall back upon. They will buy the
new books as they come out. We shall need
an additional list once every one, two, or three
years ; then the section or department lists will
be useful. It is desirable to begin with a well-
rounded list, and then publish supplemental
lists in one or more departments. We at New-
ton are interested in the first catalog, and will
give our aid.

Mr. Green. — I thought the original plan
was for the whole 5,000 titles. Has the plan
been changed .?

Mr. Dewey. — Lack of funds decided us to
print in sections.

We decided unanimously that the best plan
for this A.L.A. Catalog was the classified. If
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object in holding back the first class ready for
the printer till the last is done. We can print
without loss as fast as the copy is ready, and can
use the classes as fast as printed.

There is great danger that, looking at one of
its many uses, we forget the others; e.g., sorne
here assume that the catalog is for small
libraries only. To my thinking it is even
more needed in the large. A small library has
only a few books on each topic. Choice be-
tween them is easy compared to choice from a
great library with thousands of works on soipe
subjects. Remember that this A.L.A. list is
not a catalog of any library, or a list of all
books on the subject, but a selection of the
BEST only, and it is, therefore, specially needed
where there are most chances of not getting
the best book.

There is also a great field for this catalog
as a guide to individual buyers and readers.
The ordinary bibliografy gives no notes of
guidance such as we propose, and when a
man in doubt which is best of the three books
he knows of on his subject, consults the present
bibliografy and finds three hundred titles to
choose from instead of three, the last state of
that man is worse than the first.

Some of you appreciate the usefulness in
one direction of our A.L.A. Catalog (that cer-
tainly is to be, notwithstanding its cold bath
from my friend the great indexer) ; some its use
in other directions ; but as yet I have found no
one who has noted half the wants that these
four years have shown me that it will supply.
Libraries, great and small, schools, editors,
booksellers, and all individual readers, will be
grateful for this work.

Mr. Guild. — I have found Stevens’ list use-
ful, but how many use it.? Bossange’s Biblio-
tkeque frangais is useful, but how many use
it.? This catalog must be the work of one
man. My apology for not giving aid is be-
cause we have had our own library to move, and
I am too old to do extra work. Old age is a
good excuse for not doing extra work. Libra-
rians all have plenty of work. Will the
catalog have the influence and sale our good
secretary expects .?

Mr. Linderfelt. — I have continual en-
quiries from new libraries. I think this cata-
log will be most useful to our new libraries
in the West. An idea struck me as I came into
this hall. Let us adopt the admirable motto at

the registry desk at the door, “ Do it now” —
in parts or as a whole as we can.

Mr. F. M. Crunden, St. Louis Public Li-
brary. — If we are able to put forth this new
catalog we shall not be doing unselfish work.
I need it every day. Twenty times a day myself
and assistants are called upon for informa-
tion that this catalog with its class-lists would
supply. Obtain subscriptions in advance, to
meet the salary of this editor. I subscribed be-
fore for twenty copies, and am willing now to
make it fifty, if so we can carry through the
work.

Mr. Dewey (taking down the offer). — I
never neglect to record such pledges of sup-
port. If others will show the same spirit, we
can complete our great enterprise at an early
day.

Dr. Homes. — A catalog of two hundred
pages, twenty-five titles to the page, could be
published for fifty cents. Harpers or Monroe
would publish it for fifteen cents.

Mr. Dewey. — Our idea was to charge $2.00
for single copies, and thus get some returns to
pay the editor. Library editions could be pre-
pared at a low price. This is one of a hundred
applications for this catalog. Library num-
bers can be printed in the margin of special
editions, thus making a better and cheaper
catalog. It will be kept in type, and special
sections can be struck off for special uses at any
time.

Mr. J. W. Ward, Grosvenor Library, Buffalo.
— Why not have two or three persons each
make such a catalog, and submit it for correc-
tions.? I can make a catalog, Mr. Poole can
make one, and others, and then the com-
mittee revise these, and make up their list.

Mr. Dewey. — This is the original plan,
only that provided for more thorough work.
Several experts were to check (in colored
pencils expressing their estimate) the best
printed lists we now have, and the results were
to be digested.

Mr. Mann. — I will guarantee to furnish a
list in certain departments, say entomology
and botany, and, with others doing the same,
we can have our lists in six months.

Mr. Ward. — Does not this do away with
the idea of a salaried editor.?

Mr. Dewey. — A competent editor must be
had to condense results, do or supervise all
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the press. The most we can ask of gratuitous
help from our ablest and hardest-worked men
is onlj those things that an ordinary literary
worker cannot do.

Mr. CrundeIst. — We must get that man, and
it seems to me that we must have a sale suf-
ficient to pay his salary. Most of my original
subscribers of 1879 dead, but I can find
others, and, to help the matter along, I will
take fifty copies.

Dr. Billings. — If the only difficulty is to
get an intelligent proof-reader and editor, and
the Association can forego making any profit,
there should be little difficulty. This work is
peculiarly appropriate to the Bureau of Educa-
tion at Washington ; it has a good man for
editorial detail, and I think would take up
the idea.

Mr. Dewey. — No one has ever proposed an
income from the publication. Our object is
wholly to get the work properly done, and to
guard against its quality being sacrificed to
personal publishing interests. This plan
would meet all the objections.

On motion of the Secretary, it was unani-
mously voted that Dr. Billings be added to the
committee of seven, and that it be instructed to
open communication with the Bureau of Edu-
cation in the name of the Association, to re-
present the importance of the work to general
educational library interests, to ask coopera-
tion, and to negotiate for the publication of
the A.L.A. Catalog.

COOPERATION.

Mr. C: A. Cutter presented orally the re-
port of the Cooperation Committee : —

Your Committee on Cooperation have had
only one meeting during the year, but they
have done a little work, and they wish to call
your attention to some work done by others.

1. The indexing of obituaries in newspapers
has continued during the present year. Some
copies of the volume printed by the Index So-
ciety have been received in this country, and
have been distributed to codperators. One or
two more collaborators are wanted, and if any
one wishes to acquire an approving conscience
by a little easy labor, he or she would do well
to report to me, when I will assign him or her
a newspaper to index for obituaries.

2. Mr. Soldan, of Peoria, has made an ar-
rangement with certain foreign booksellers by

which he can import German, French, and
English books at more advantageous rates than
previously. This he is able to do by forming a
union of libraries, which put it in his power to
offer large orders to his foreign agents. Of
course the more libraries join this league the
larger orders he can give and the better terms
he can obtain for all. He will himself explain
his methods.*

3. The great cooperation, the father of all
cooperations, no, the elder brother of them all,
who has gone out first into the world to shift
for himself, has been remarkably successful
there. But the very usefulness of Poole’s Index
makes us all unwilling to wait another thirty
years for a new edition, or even five years for a
supplement. Mr. W. K. Stetson, assistant li-
brarian of the Wesleyan University, impressed
with the need of more frequent indexes to
periodical literature, induced a number of
neighboring librarians to join with him in in-
dexing each two of three of the more important
quarterlies and monthlies, and exchanging
hectograf copies of the references. The ar-
rangement promised well, but he found that to
engineer it required more time than he could
well spare, and turned it over to this committee.
Before long Mr. Leypoldt generously, but I
fear I must say rashly, offered the columns of
the Library journal for the publication of
the monthly index, which Mr. Fletcher under-
took to edit. You all know how well the work
has been done and how useful it is. Mr. Poole
has a plan for the yearly consolidation of these
monthly parts, which he will himself explain
to you.

4. He will also have something to say in
regard to the long-wanted index of essays, in
which this committee will take at least a
friendly interest. We are encouraged to hope
that cooperation can do much in this field, be-
cause the unassisted labor of one man has
already accomplished so much in Mr. Gris-
wold’s lately issued volume.

CATALOG RULES.

Your committee, as directed at the Cincinnati
meeting, have carefully compared our catalog-
ing rules with those of the Library Association

iThis Mr. Soldan had no opportunity to do during the
convention. The plan is to be brought before the Co-
operation Committee at its first meeting, and will probably
be reported upon in the Library journal.

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of the United Kingdom, and, also, though not
ordered to, with the “ Compendious rules ”
issued by Mr. E. B. Nicholson, Bodlej’s libra-
rian. They find that the three sets of rules are
substantially the same. There are, however,
seven cases in which the English Association
differs from us, in which, in our opinion, we
must continue to differ, and three cases in
which we think the American rule should be
altered to coincide with the English. There
are also certain changes of phraseology, which
we have adopted, to bring the rules verbally
into greater agreement.

The instances of non-concurrence are these :

[. We retain the entry of pseudonymous
books under the real name, instead of under the
pseudonym, although we allow the use of the
pseudonym as a heading, instead of the real
name, when the pseudonym is much better
known (as George Eliot, instead of Mrs. Lewes
or Mrs. Cross).

2. We retain the entry of anonymous books
under the first word, in place of entry under the
chief subject-word.

3. We retain our own order for the imprint
entries.

4. We object to putting the author’s fore-
name in brackets, and see no advantage in put-
ting it in parentheses.

5. We object decidedly to the intrusion of
the form-catalogue into the author-catalogue
by putting service and prayer-books under the
head of Liturgies.

6. We cannot recommend that in ku autkor-
catalogue references should be made from the
subjects of biographies to the writers.

7. We adhere to the practice of treating
German letters with the umlaut like the same
letters without the umlaut, because we find that
the general rule in German catalogues, and
because we think there is little more reason for
separating a and d in German than there is for
separating e and e in French.

On the other hand we have changed our rule
of entry under a married woman’s last name
to read, like the English, “ under the name best
known,” that being in accordance with the
principle which led to the entry of noblemen
under their titles, instead of under their family
names, and to entry under noted pseudonyms,
instead of in all cases under the real name.

The other points in which we have altered
our rule to follow the English rule are in the

capitalization of titles of honor, and in making
some directions regarding the imprint per-
missive instead of obligatory.

The English code treats of several matters
which we thought it unnecessary to touch upon
in the very brief compendium published in
1878. Most of these additional rules we have
included in the present code, as they are in ac-
cordance with the general American practice.

{The rules are printed on p. 25I. See also

p. 298.)

Mr. Ward, of the Committee on Reception,
called attention to the invitations on the pro-
gram and moved their acceptance. Voted,
with thanks.

On motion of the Secretary, it was voted
that the morning sessions be called to order
at 10 o’clock A.M., the afternoon sessions
at 3 o’clock P.M., and the evening ses-
sions at 8 o’clock P.M.

A recess was taken till 3 P.M., when the
parties started on a tour of the Buffalo libraries
and societies which had extended invitations.

SECOND SESSION.

(Tuesday Evening.)

The meeting was called to order by the Presi-
dent at 8 o’clock. In the absence of Mr. F: B.
Perkins, of San Francisco, his Report on Shelf-
classification was read by Mr. Linderfelt.

(^T/ie report was accidentally lost; we have
found it impossible to get a duplicate from the
author^ and reluctantly go to press without it.')

Mr. Dewey answered the objections brought
forward by Mr. Perkins to the relative shelf-
arrangement.

The President read an extract from a private
letter just received from Professor Foxwell,
of the chair of political economy in the Uni-
versity of Cambridge, England, and a fellow
of St. John’s College in that University, in which
he writes: “I always look on the work of
American librarians with despairing admiration.
Whatever else j’our country may or may not be
destined to take the lead in, it is certainly easily
first in bibliography and the management of
libraries.”

Mr. Dewey. — One of the gratifying items, to-
day, vouching for the value of our meetings, is
the number I see present who had written me
that it was quite impossible to get away this
year from pressing engagements at home.

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In the abvsence of Mr. Stephen B. Noyes, of
the Brooklyn Library, his Report on Cataloging
was read by Mr. W. I. Fletcher, of Hartford.
{See /. 166.)

CHANGED TITLES.

Mr. J. L. Whitney, of the Boston Public
Library, then read his paper entitled “ A
Modern Proteus.”

{Seep.l^^.)

Judge Chamberlain. — Authors often have
trouble in finding titles to their books after
they are written, just as ministers find difficulty
in finding texts for their sermons after they are
written. Often publishers’ w'hims change the
titles. I remember on reading “ The Cathe-
dral,” by James R. Lowell, that I was puzzled at
not finding any reference to a cathedral in the
book. I wrote to Mr. Lowell in reference to
it, and in reply he wrote me that the title Avas
not his own. You will recollect he takes up
and describes “A Day in June,” “ A Day in
Winter,” etc., including “ A Day at Chartres,”
where the old cathedral was, and “A Day at
Chartres ” was the title given by Mr. Lowell;
but his publisher, Mr. James T. Fields, changed
it to “ The Cathedral.” Mr. Lowell added that
it was a mistake, and that when his works were
collected he intended to restore the old title ;
but it has not yet been done.

INDEX OF essays.

The President then called upon Mr. Poole
to open the “ discussion of suggestions towards
the project of a cooperative general index to
the standard English literature of criticism,
^ biography, history, and social science.”

Mr. Poole. — There is in our libraries a vast
amount of valuable literature in the form of
essays, miscellanies and collections, to which
our catalogues give no clue, and hence is not
available to the student. There are also topics
treated in the standard works of literary criti-
cism, history, biography, and other departments
of knowledge which would be of great value to
the reader if they were ma,de accessible by
means of a general index, such as we now have
to periodical literature. At our last meeting,
at Cincinnati, I suggested that the preparation
of such an index by the members of this Asso-
ciation on the cooperative plan was practicable,
and that if students, writers for the press, and
men in literary pursuits, were ever to have

such a help, the work must be done by libra-
rians, and by the cooperative method. It is too
large an enterprise to be accomplished by any
one man in our profession, whose only avail-
able hours for such work are those which other
people use for rest and recreation. By com-
bining our efforts under the management of a
competent chief editor, and dividing the labor
among us, the work can be done in a satisfac-
tory manner, and within a reasonable period.
At one time I had some serious intentions of
assuming the labor and responsibility of con-
ducting, for the second time, such an enterprise ;
but on further consideration I have thought it
prudent and advisable to leave the task for
some younger librarian to take up, and, by car-
rying it through successfully, make his name a
household word with studious people. Having
come to this decision, I can speak of the details
of the scheme with more freedom ; and as a
miles emeritus^ who has, with a valiant corps
of associates, fought through one similar cam-
paign, can make, perhaps, some practical sug-
gestions which will not be inappropriate to the
subject. Having given the matter some thought,
I am convinced that there are no obstacles to
the consummation of the project which were
not met and overcome in making the “Index
to periodical literature.”

The first essential requisite is to find the
proper man who will accept the position of
chief editor, who will command the confidence
of the profession, who will put his own individ-
uality in the work, and conduct it with some-
thing of autocratic sway. Mr. Fletcher, if he
will take it, will make an excellent chief editor,
so would Mr. Foster, for they both have had
experience in this kind of work. Committees
can do some things admirably ; so can town
meetings ; but they cannot conduct a campaign,
or do anything which requires administrative
ability and executive oversight. One mind
must have full charge of the enterprise, and
the rest of us will give him such help as he
asks for.

The chief editor will not find the task an easy
one or free from difficulties. The first edition,
although very useful to readers, will be very
unsatisfactory to himself. It will have annoy-
ing omissions, some errors, many anomalies,
and will be open to captious criticism from
those who love to find fault. It will have an
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be the basis, however, on which he can make
a much better book for the second edition. Its
usefulness and importance as a bibliographical
aid will then have been appreciated by scholars
and writers, and they will have sent in to him
their references after investigating and writing
upon a topic, instead of destroying them, as is
now done. The fact that such an index cannot be
made complete, harmonious, and bibliographi-
cally accurate in the first issue, is, perhaps, one
of the reasons why it has never been attempted.

Another difficulty will be in deciding how
wide a I'ange shall be given to the topics under
which references shall be made. It is neces-
sary that some limit should be fixed, and the
idea of making a “Universal index” — as our
friends across the water have been talking
about — is not for a moment to be entertained.
Perhaps the limit which was observed in the
“Index to periodical literature” is a safe one,
which excluded medical, legal, and other purely
professional and scientific serials, the main
purpose being to help general students and
scholars, who are many, in preference to the
specialists, who are few. The work can, there-
fore, be brought into reasonable limits. Criti-
cal, literary, artistic, unprofessionally-scientific,
biographical, and historical subjects are those
which are most sought for. If we take into
consideration the class of persons who will
buy the book, — for it must be made to sell and
pay a copyright to the chief editor, and not be
a financial burden to the Association, — we
should not make any mistake in the class of
books to be indexed. All the libraries in the
land, students in the higher schools and col-
leges, writers for the press, and persons of
literary pursuits, need such a manual, and pub-
lishers will be glad to negotiate for its publica-
tion. Let the range of topics be adapted to
meet these popular wants, and, if the book be
a success, the range of topics can be increased
in future editions.

I have made these remarks hoping to inspire
some one of my youthful colleagues who is
competent to undertake it, to consent to assume
the duties of chief editor, to lay out his plans,
and to call upon us to assist him. The mem-
bers of the Association I know, from the sup-
port they have given me in a similar under-
taking, will cordially engage to cooperate in
the execution of the scheme, and will faithfully
fulfil their engagements.

Mr. P^DMANDS was of the opinion that it
would be a little book not worth making; he
asked for a more definite idea of the size of the
book.

Mr. Poole. — I would make a book of 400
pages, worth $3.00 or $4.00.

Mr. Green. — Would you throw out such a
subject as the telephone because it is scientific.?

Mr. Poole. — I would not, it being a popular
subject.

Mr. Green. — I received, just before leaving
home, an index somewhat of this kind, sent out
by Mr. Griswold. I should like to ask Mr.
Poole’s opinion of that.

Mr. Poole. — I think it, like all of P.’s
indexes, fearfully and wonderfully made.

Mr. Dewey. — At least “ he had the courage
to print,” which Mr. Poole has assured us is an
important trait of the “coming indexer.”

Mr. Biscoe, of Columbia College Library. —
P. attempts to make a very short cata-
logue. To do this he makes his entries so brief
that the difficulty is to find just what you want
without looking at a large number of useless
references, many of which are to very small
parts of articles. Plis index contains more in
less space than Poole.

Mr. Edmands. — I hope the suggestions will
be put into some practical form soon. We may
take a lesson from the P. indexes and the
work of the London Index Society. The vol-
umes they have published seem to me a waste
of money and of time. We want not a multi-
plicity of little indexes, but something compre-
hensive in which by a single reference we may
find what we want. Lay out the ground. Call
for volunteers to perform the work, under the
supervision of a single editor. The importance
of such a large and comprehensive index can-
not be over-estimated, and the need of it is ex-
ceedingly pressing. I think Mr. Poole is young
enough to undertake this work, and that he
will do it.

Mr. Green. — What would you give out to
be indexed ?

Mr. Poole. — I would give Gibbon, Hume,
sets of essays, etc., to individuals for indexing.

Judge Chamberlain. — Would you index
critical books on Shakespeare.? on the separate
plays, say, on “Hamlet” .?

Mr. Poole. — Yes, I would index everything
on “ Hamlet.” I would make a book they would
cry for.

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The President (aside). — A library sooth-
ing-sirup. (Laughter.)

Mr. Fletcher. — This index can be made
on one of two dilfe rent plans : ist, That certain
subjects be taken and everything relating to
them be looked up ; this would be very difficult.
2d, That sets of books be taken, such as we
know contain a great deal of matter of use, and
indexed, without trying to hunt down all that
there is on a subject.

Judge Chamberlain. — Why not let a com-
mittee be appointed to whom suggestive lists
could be sent, and so get together a list of books
to be indexed, and then get persons to index
them }

Mr. Edmands. — The scope of this index
need not give us trouble. It will bring together
the contents of books on given subjects.

Mr. Earned. — Can we not take one prac-
tical step, and go so far as to appoint a com-
mittee to prepare a list of books to be indexed.?
And I would ask Mr. Poole and Mr. Fletcher if
they would serve on a committee to select such
a list.?

Dr. Billings. — I think we need rather more
than Mr. Lamed suggests. You want not
only a list of books, but of subjects also ; and
you must limit yourselves. As Mr. Poole
says, throw out law, medicine, and technolog-
ical subjects. There are special workers in
special scientific fields. Confine yourselves to
general literature. There is great need of such
an index for editors and others, but it cannot
cover all fields. The man who makes the index
gets the most good from it ; it is bad for the
man who uses it, for it gets him out of the habit
of research.

Mr. Fletcher. — I am sorry that Dr. Bil-
lings thinks those who use his admirable index
are to be injured.

We would not take a book to index ; if it had
something in it on our selected subjects we
would index what it contained on those subjects.

Mr. Dewey. — I want to protest against Dr.
Billings’ idea that indexes are hurtful to users.
I am a champion of every labor-saving device,
and have no sympathy with the theory that
students are made superficial and weak by hav-
ing aids. There is plenty to investigate inde-
pendently on every topic, after utilizing all the
helps, indexes, etc., we have. This same objec-
tion has been made to all labor-saving ma-
chinery. Mobs destroyed it, because it was

going to ruin workmen; but wages went up.
Railroads were to ruin the prices of horses ;
yet they sell higher than before. The argu-
ments used against such indexes apply equally
to all our catalogues, notes, and library
aids. I contend that, for any real gain to the
mind from hunting at random for matter
wanted instead of using such helps, there is a
hundred-fold injury in the delay and interrup-
tions of the train of thought. To be sure one
stumbles on many interesting items which he
would not otherwise see; but to a mind intent
on one subject every other item is at that
moment a nuisance, and pernicious in propor-
tion to its interest. We all believe in indexes,
and all similar helps, — Dr. Billings himself as
heartily as the rest. Indeed, his great medical
index excels all similar works. He has inad-
vertently dropped this old dogma of the schools,
which is utterly opposed to our ideas and work.
As librarians, let us combat always this mediae-
val notion that labor-saving machinery is less
desirable for the mind than for the hands.

Dr. Billings. — I only made my remark
incidentally, not to oppose the proposed work;
but I think the difficulty will be to arrange a
list of books, the abbreviations to be used, etc'

Mr. Edmands moved that the preparation
of an index to general literature be referred to
a special committee, to report a general plan
sometime during these meetings.

Mr. Poole. — There is not time to do this at
this meeting. I do not believe in committees.
I like to work alone, and report when I am
ready. The time is coming when we shall
have an index, and the Association will make
it.

Mr. Dewey. — I wanted to make the same
motion. I think it is competent for us to ap-
point a committee to make a report at this
meeting, if it be only that a committee be
raised to report a detailed plan next year. The
motto of this session is, “Do it now.” Mr.
Poole told us that he had been turning this
Index over in his mind for many years. Many
of the rest of us have thought, and talked, and
written about it for years. If it is so important
as we all agree it is, it seems nonsense to lose
another year before getting started. A com-
mittee can certainly report to this meeting what
is possible to be done. If we are to take a
year to dream over every proposition about
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shall rival the English chancery courts. Let
us “ do it now.” I second and urge the pas-
sage of this motion.

The motion was carried unanimously.

Mr. Edmands. — I move Mr. Poole be chair-
man.

Mr. Poole. — I must decline, if a report
must be made at this meeting, for want of
time.

Mr. Edmands. — We shall only expect such
a report as can be made at this meeting.

Mr. Dewey. — I should hope the committee
might draft a scheme of a plan that may be
referred to a committee of five to work upon
during the year. I think we should plan to
have the supplements to this new index and to
Poole’s all in one alfabet. In looking up a
subject, who cares whether an essay on it was
printed in a periodical or in a collection.?

The President. — Is there any objection to
a committee of five, to choose their own chair-
man.? I hear none, and will name as that
committee Messrs. Poole, Edmands, Billings,
Fletcher, and Dewey.

CHANGED TITLES.

Mr. Dewey. — What can vre do in the matter
of Mr. Whitney’s paper.? While you were
laughing during its reading I was mourning.
It is a matter “ growing no better very fast,”
and bids fair to land all our catalogers in
Bedlam. I think a resolution can be drafted to
send to publishers with a copy of the paper,
which would have some effect; request them
courteously, for the good reasons given in the
paper, to avoid the fault, and if this is unavail-
ing we can ask a resolution of censure directed
against those who are guilty of issuing books
under more than one title.

Mr. Poole. — Let us print the names of the
publishers with this list.

Mr. Christern, of New York. — I find a
great deal of trouble everyday in this direction.
I am asked for the original French, Italian, or
German of some book, the title of the English
translation of which gives no clue to the origi-
nal foreign title. This might be obviated by
saying on the title of the translation, “From
the French, Italian, or German” so-and-so.

Mr. Dewey. — I believe that a black-list
should be prepared and published, with the

names of the publishers added to each title, to
be made as complete as possible, and additions
be made from time to time. This would serve
as a check-list for buyers and as a warning for
publishers.

On motion, Messrs. Whitney, Soule, and
Linderfelt were appointed a committee to draft
this resolution, and prepare the black-list.

Mr. Crunden. — Is Mr. Whitney’s list to be
printed?

The President. — I presume it will be.

Mr. Edmands. — Would Mr. Whitney like
additional titles sent him.?

Mr. Whitney. — Yes, the more the better.

Mr. C: Alex. Nelson, of the Astor Library,
N. Y., called the attention of the Association
to the fact that the Chicago Bookseller and
Stationer had, in a recent issue (the June
number), indirectly at least, advocated a meas-
ure that would go far towards remedying the
evil of the issue of old books under new titles,
in the editorial urging publishers to melt up the
plates of such books as had had their sale;
also, that the war waged by the same journal
upon the trade sales would have a beneficial
effect in the same direction, since it was
through these very sales that many of the books
complained of found their way into the market.

FINANCE.

Mr. Green, of the Finance Committee, re-
ported that the treasurer’s report had been au-
dited.

The report was then accepted and placed on
file.

Mr. Larned. — The report of Mr. Green, as
chairman of the Finance Committee, has been
audited and found correct.

The report was accepted and placed on file.

The Secretary requested members to hand
in in writing any question on any subject for
the question-box.

Mr. Larned stated that the rooms of the Dec-
orative Art Society would be open to members
of the Association during their stay in the city,
and that the society extended a cordial invita-
tion to all to visit them. He also announced
the arrangements for the excursion down the
Niagara river to-morrow afternoon.

Recess.

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THIRD SESSION.

(WEDNESDAY MORNING.)

Meeting called to order at 10 o’clock.

MONTHLY PERIODICAL INDEX.

Mr. Poole read his paper on “ Plans for Sup-
plements to the ‘ Index to Periodical Litera-
ture.’ ”

iSeej). 194.)

Mr. Fletcher asked how much the Coopera-
tive Index Supplements to the Libray jour-
nal were used ; with a view to learning whether
it paid to publish them.

Mr. Foster. — They are in constant use in
our library until they are worn out. Several
copies are taken. One cop^jf is kept at the
librarian’s desk, but another is placed at once,
on being received, between the leaves of the
copy of Poole’s Index, which is kept constantly
lying on the counter in the public reading-
room. Like Poole’s Index itself it has become
indispensable to the regular users of the library.

Mr. Biscoe. — They are much used at Am-
herst.

Mr. Cutter reported to the same effect.

Mr. Green. — We want everything of that
kind we can get.

WASHINGTON LIBRARIES.

Mr. Weston Flint, of Washington, not be-
ing present, and no paper having been received
from him, the President called upon Dr. Bil-
lings for an impromptu report on the special
libraries of the Departments and Bureaus of
the U. S. Government at Washington.

{See j). 199.)

Mr. Smith. — We are much indebted to Dr.
Billings for his statement, and I think he has
clearly shown the necessity of supporting the
special libraries independent of the National
Library. We have in Philadelphia a good Law
Library, supported by members of the bar ; a
good Medical Library; a very good Library on
Natural History in the Academy of Natural
Sciences; the Franklin Institute has the
foreign patents, and a good collection ; the
Historical Society buys family genealogies and
local histories, and relieves the Library Com-
panj' in this direction, which, in turn, attends
to the English county histories. All together
they form an excellent set for the student.

The President. — Is there any provision to
prevent duplication among the several libra-
ries at Washington.?

Dr. Billings. — So far as the Medical Li-
brary was concerned there has been for some
years an understanding between Mr. Spofford
and myself that the former should purchase
no medical books, but reserve all funds for the
general collection. The only duplication,
therefore, which occurs is that connected with
the deposit in the Congressional Library of two
copies of every medical book copyrighted in
this country. A certain number of these books
are also purchased by the Medical Library;
and, in this way, there is a little duplication.

LIBRARY ARCHITECTURE.

Mr. J. Edmands read the annual report on
Library Architecture.

{See j). 201.)

Mr. Edmands read some extracts from a
letter of Mr. Spofford : —

“As matters now stand, and in special refer-
ence to the proposed new building for the
Library of Congress, it appears to me this
Association should take measures to make its
views on the matter of library construction
more widely known, and its influence felt in a
more definite and emphatic manner. And it is
quite certain that, with the prestige we have,
it is possible for us largely to give direction to
public thought on the subject, and, through the
public, to the action of Congress.

“Both plans embodied the exterior plan of
the building adopted by the committee, drawn
by Mr. J. L. Smithmeyer, which is in the
Italian Renaissance style of architecture, with
central rotunda and skylight, corner pavilions,
very slightly projected, to break the monotony
of a long facade in one style, and a generally
modest and plain treatment throughout. The
interior was to be of iron and stone ; the
arrangements of reading-rooms, copyright de-
partment, shelf system, and alcoves, as well as
the selection of the materials, whether granite
or marble, to be ultimately agreed upon by the
Commission, with the understanding that the
librarian’s judgment would be carried out as
to details.

“This brings me to say how greatly I regret
the vote of the Association condemning an in-
terior plan, assumed by those who passed it to
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merely provisional, and designed to get some
kind of a building from Congress. Of course
you could never get architects to agree upon
what would be the proper interior, and, unless
I greatly mistake, an agreement of librarians
would be almost equally difficult to reach. (In
any case, the scheme proposed by Mr. Poole
W'ould be wholly unsuited to a National Li-
brary building in many particulars.) Unlike
the wants of a mere collection of books open
to students, a National Library must em-
brace, —

“ I. A grand central hall, sufficiently im-
pressive in height and proportions to show at
once, by its ^veil-lined walls, the wealth of its
literary stores, and to appeal to public taste as
something worthy of the country.

“ 2. An Art Gallery, at least 300 feet in length,
for the proper arrangement of the 30,000 speci-
mens of the arts of design already received
under the copyright law, and those which are
to follow.

“3. A Map room of large dimensions, in
which many thousand maps can be system-
atically arranged on spiral-spring rollers, to
illustrate, by a complete and, magnificent
series, the entire cartography of America.

“4. Copyright record rooms, ample for the
large clerical business and accumulated folios
of a national office of public records.

“ 5. A spacious hall for bound newspapers, of
which more than 12,000 volumes are already
accumulated.

“6. Committee rooms and offices in adequate
number and dimensions.

“ 7. Students’ rooms for special investiga-
tions.

“ 8. All needful appliances of packing, bind-
ing, heating,and quick communication through-
out the entire building.

“ These being provided for and answered, and
every reader furnished with a desk protected
from his neighbor, and quiet in the main li-
brary hall secured by diverting the great sight-
seeing public to the art-gallery floor, where
they can look down upon the reading-room,
and aloft to the graceful dome, I am ready to
introduce all the economics of storage which
the stack system or the most utilitarian scheme
proposed by any of my very respected col-
leagues may involve. Until these objects are
secured I am not willing to have the interior
plans of a library building of national impor-

tance dwarfed to the dimensions of a prolonged
series of packing-boxes.”

Mr. Poole. — Our thanks are due to Mr.
Edmands for the very able and interesting re-
port to which we have just listened. Its views
on the subject of library architecture are in
harmony with opinions and resolutions which,
without a dissenting voice, have been expressed
at the last three meetings of this Association,
where it has been freely discussed. In the wide
range of topics relating to our profession which
have been considered at our meetings, perhaps
there is no one on which there is such a unani-
mous concurrence of opinion as on this, — that
the typical style of constructing library build-
ings in this country and abroad is very faulty,
and needs to be j^eformed. The discussions we
have held have directed public attention to the
subject, and the reform has already commenced.
No committee or board of trustees, who now
have the charge of erecting a library building,
would take their architect to Boston, New
York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington,
or Cincinnati, and reproduce what they there
found. Those buildings are all in the old con-
ventional style, — a mediaeval Gothic structure,
with empty nave and aisles filled with books,
from four to six stories high. At Boston,
Judge Chamberlain v/ould say to the committee :
“ Don’t copy our plans; they will vex you as
they have us. We have abandoned them our-
selves in the new' building we are about to
erect.” At Cincinnati, my friend, Mr. Merrill,
would say, as he has often said : “ Make your
building as unlike ours as you can, and you
wall not make a mistake.”

The problem of library architecture is not a
difficult one to solve if we will abandon con-
ventional and mediaeval ideas, and apply the
same common-sense, practical judgment and
good taste which is used in the construction of
houses to live in, stores to do business in, and
hotels to accommodate transient visitors in.
We want buildings for doing the w^ork of a
library in; for giving readers the best facilities
for study; for storing books in the most con-
venient and accessible manner, where they
will be secure from fire, and for doing every-
thing in the best manner which pertains to the
administration of a library. The architect is
not qualified to decide what the requirements of
a library are, for he knows nothing about the
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should study out and design the original plan,
and the architect should take these practical
suggestions, harmonize them, and give to the
structure an artistic eftect. It would be well if
librarians gave more attention to library con-
struction. If left to architects alone, the busi-
ness will run in the old ruts.

The conventional style of library architect-
ure has come down through the centuries to
our day under the supposition that it was
beautiful. Committees start out with the single
idea, and seldom get beyond it, that a library
building must be, in any event, beautiful. It
has been objected that a building constructed
on the practical and utilitarian ideas which
have been promulgated of late through this As-
sociation will not be beautiful. Beauty is that
which pleases the sight or delights the esthetic
faculty. That only is really beautiful which
answers the purpose for which it was designed.
Different persons have different esthetic ideas
as to the same object. A stranger entering the
Cincinnati Public Library, and gazing aloft at
the ornamental skylight, and at the upper gal-
leries filled with books, regards the building
as beautiful ; but the assistant who is obliged
to climb four flights of stairs to get a volume
sees no element of beauty in the arrangement;
and when Mr. Merrill, on a summer day, finds
that the sun streaming through that ornamental
skylight has raised the temperature in the
upper galleries to 140°, and that the bindings of
his books are crumbling because they have
been burned up by this excessive heat, the
sight does not appeal to his esthetic faculty.
No person who has had experience with build-
ings of this class wdll say they are beautiful,
and for the reason that they do not meet the
legitimate wants of a library.

We have naturally an interest in the plans
which will be adopted in the construction of
the two great library buildings soon to be
erected in Boston and Washington, and chiefly
that they will indicate the progress, if any, in
library architecture. Mr. Edmands has given
us such information concerning them as he
could obtain, which is not very definite. With
the plans for the Washington Library we have
an especial interest, because it is the National
Library. If this American Association of prac-
tical librarians is good for anything, it would
seem that it ought to have some influence, by
the way of advice, in determining what those

plans shall be. Hitherto its advice has been
wholly ignored by the Congressional com-
mittee on that subject. The committee’s plans
were exhibited and explained by its architect, at
our meeting in Washington, in February, 1881,
and by resolution they met the disapproval of
every member. They were in the old conven-
tional style, with open nave, galleries six stories
high, and skylights. They were condemned
again the next year, at our Cincinnati meet-
ing. No notice was taken of our action; and
the question of adopting those plans coming
before Congress, the bill was defeated, on a
motion of Mr. Holman, of Indiana, that the
expense of the building (estimated by the com-
mittee at about ten million dollars) should not
exceed two millions. The question will doubt-
less come up again in the next session of
Congress. Mr. Spofford, in his letter to the
Association, which Mr. Edmands has just read,
says it appears to him “ that the Association
should take measures to make its views on the
matter of library construction more widely
known, and its influence felt in a more definite
and emphatic manner.” This is the very thing
we have been trying to do, and with very little
success. “And it is quite certain,” he adds,
“ that with the prestige we [the Association]
have, it is possible for us largely to give direc-
tion to public thought on the subject, and
through the public to the action of Congress.”
I think we ought to heed this good counsel,
and suggest that we be heard by the committee
when the subject next comes up for considera-
tion in Congress.

I regard the adoption of Mr. Holman’s reso-
lution as a fortunate circumstance, for it makes
the construction of a building, on the plans
adopted by the committee, an impossibility,
and indicates that the members of Congress
propose to give to the matter some considera-
tion. It affords the librarians of the country,
also, an opportunity to express their views.
As to what shall be the architecture of the ex-
terior this Association has no interest, and
hence has expressed no opinion ; but with the
construction and arrangements of the interior
it has, by unanimous votes, expressed and re-
iterated decided opinions, first at Washington,
in 1881, just after the committee’s plans had
been exhibited and explained to the Association,
and in these words : —

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ciation, the time has come for a radical modifi-
cation of the prevailing typical style of library
building, and the adoption of a style of con-
struction better suited to economy and practi-
cal utility.”

This resolution was repeated at Cincinnati,
with some additional resolutions, among which
were the following : —

'■'•Resolved, That the plans submitted to this
Association at the Washington meeting, by Mr.
J. L. Smithmeyer, and adopted by the Joint
Committee of Congress, embody principles of
construction which are now regarded as faulty
by the whole library profession ; and, there-
fore, as members of the American Library
Association, we protest against the erection
of the building for the Library of Congress
upon those principles.

“ Resolved, . . . That it is of great impor-
tance to the library interests of the country
that the old and conventional errors of con-
struction be avoided in the interior plans of
this building.”

As these are the views on library construc-
tion wLich this Association has uniformly ex-
pressed, they must be the views which Mr.
SpotFord wishes “the Association to make
more widely known, and its influence felt in a
more definite and emphatic manner.” I cer-
tainly am not inclined to shirk my share of this
duty.

The only information we have as to the
plans wdiich are now in contemplation for the
Congress library building is contained in Mr.
Spoftbrd’s letter, which has just been read. In
it he “ regrets the vote of the Association con-
demning an interior plan, assumed by those
who passed it to have been fixed upon defi-
nitely, when it w'as merely provisional, and de-
signed to get some kind of a building from
Congress.” We were not told that the plans
submitted to us for our information were pro-
visional, and did not mean anything; and we
never suspected that the committee had
adopted plans simply “ designed to get some
kind of a building from Congress.” Asking
Congress for an appropriation, which involved
an expense of some ten million dollars in car-
rying them out, had the appearance of business
and serious intentions. We are now told that
the interior arrangements, as well as the ma-
terials, were to be ultimately agreed upon by
the commission, “with the understanding that

the librarian’s judgment would be carried out
as to details.” It was not to the details, but to
the general plan, that we objected. Hon. C.
B. Farwell, of Chicago, who was a member of
the committee, said to me that he was as much
responsible for the adoption of the plans as
any member. I asked him whether, in case
Congress had enacted the committee’s bill
and made the appropriation, the commission
could have essentially changed Mr. Smithmey-
er’s plans. “Not at all,” he replied; “the
bill carried the plans with it, and was drawn
so intentionally.”

So much for the past; now what of the
future.? A building contrived for show, such
as the late committee proposed, cannot be
built for $2,000,000; but one sufficiently com-
modious, adapted to the practical wants of the
National Library, and architecturally an or-
nament to the city of Washington, can be
built for about that sum. No committee will
be likely again to go before Congress with
plans which have not been duly considered.
If they consult the librarians of the country,
and give any weight to the advice they receive,
their plans will in some measure represent the
views which this Association entertains and has
expressed. The Librarian of Congress, who
is one of our members, ought to have, and will
have, much influence in determining what
those plans will be. He was, when we met at
Washington, cordially with us in condemning
the conventional style of library buildings,
and we have had no intimation, until we
listened to his letter which has just been read,
that there had been a change in his opinions.
Recalling, Mr. President, the views he ex-
pressed to us when, with Mr. Cutter, we par-
took of his generous hospitality after the
Washington meeting, I am surprised at the
statement of his present views of what the in-
terior of a National Library should be. It
seems like falling back on Mr. Smithmeyer’s
plans. He says : —

“ I. A grand central hall, sufficiently impres-
sive in height and proportions to show at once,
by its well-lined walls, the wealth of its literary
stores, and to appeal to public taste as some-
thing worthy of the country.”

Not a word or intimation is given as to the
use to be made of this grand central hall, ex-
cept that it impress the public as a show-room.
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ington? A library is for the use of students
and scholars, and should be quiet. It is the
last institution in the world to be housed in a
show-building. This central hall is to be of
great height, and its walls lined with books, in
galleries, of course, of which there were six
tiers in Mr. Smithmeyer’s plans. Possibly
this number may be increased in a room of
the height proposed. What is the purpose of
all this } It is not a convenient mode of shelving
books and making them accessible ; and it is
well known that the binding of books stored in
galleries is destroyed by heat. Mr. Spofford
here proposes to repeat and perpetuate the in-
jury to books from heat which he experiences in
his present library rooms, and which he so
vigorously condemned at the Washington
meeting. He said : “ If you go into the upper
galleries of the Library of Congress on any day
of the winter, and take a book from the
shelves, the chances are that it will almost
burn your hand. It has often occurred to me
that, if these warped and shrivelled and over-
heated volumes were not inanimate beings, —
if they could only speak, — they would cry out
with one voice to their custodians, ‘ Our suffer-
ings are intolerable.’ ” Mr. Spofford now thinks
that this arrangement “ will appeal to public
taste as something worthy of the country.” To
ignorant people who come to gape and stare it
will be impressive; but to well-informed and
educated persons it will be anything but an ap-
peal to public taste. It will be pitiable, and
positively discreditable to the nation. If these
be really Mr. Spofford’s present views of what
the National Library ought to be, I regard his
comments on some plans of library construction
which I proposed at Washington as positively
complimentary to them. “ In any case,” he
says, “ the scheme proposed by Mr. Poole
would be wholly unsuitable to a National Li-
brary building.” My scheme has certainly
a very different purpose in view from his ; and
that I regard as its chief merit. The delecta-
tion of strangers and rural visitors is not the
primary purpose of a libr^^ building. The
Washington Monument, five hundred and
twenty-five feet high, will soon be com-
pleted, and visitors from the rural districts
can do their staring and wondering there.
They can now roam through the Capitol,
(which is a show-building), and with delight
gaze aloft into the rotunda. They can visit

the Smithsonian Institution, the Patent-Office,
the President’s house, and admire the marble
columns around the Treasury building. With
these opportunities at sight-seeing, the Nation-
al Library building ought not to be constructed
for their special accommodation, in preference
to convenience, common-sense, the quietude
of readers, and safety of the books.

If I had not taken so much of your time, I
should like to comment on some other features
in the scheme of a National Library building
which Mr. Spofford has laid before us. It
seems hardly necessary, as my criticisms would
be in the same line as those I have already
made. I leave the subject here, hoping that
the views of this Association will be represented
in the plans which Congress in its wisdom
shall adopt; and that the new National Library
building will mark an era in the healthful
progress of American library architecture.

It was proposed that the matter be referred to
a committee of librarians and architects.

Dr. Billings. — I think it would be best to
refer these resolutions to a committee. I do
not know what control we have over architects.
What architect would do this free .f*

Mr. Dewey. — I was glad to hear Mr. Spof-
ford’s letter. It is, I believe, the first word
heard in our meetings on the other side of the
building question. There has been nothing
but abuse of the old buildings and their archi-
tects. I appreciate all the faults that have been
pointed out. Also the great merits of the iron-
stack system, and of the elaborate scheme so
ably set forth by Mr. Poole at Washington.
Yet are we not in danger of going to the other
extreme in our recoil from the “ great-hall ”
system } Though it deserves only execration for
a public library with limited means, which
aims only to deliver its seventy-five per cent,
of fiction in the fewest possible seconds, may
there not be circumstances where the great-
hall plan is the best

I could not conceive that Mr. Smithmeyer
drew up these plans without repeated consulta-
tion with Mr. Spofford. The letter read shows
that to be the case. We have no officer or
member whose judgment commands more uni-
versal respect than Mr. Spofford’s. No other
member has had anything approximating his
opportunities for deciding what is really
needed for our National Library building. In
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a most remarkable proceeding to adopt reso-
lutions pronouncing plans embodying very
largely Mr. Spofford’s ideas to be “the worst
thing devised for five hundred years,” etc. I,
for one, am unwilling that any such vote should
be passed, and do not believe that a majority of
our members wish it. As I think of it more, I
am inclined to agree more fully with Mr. Spof-
ford. The United States can afford coal to
warm a beautiful hall, and runners enough to
get all the books promptly, and, if need be,
elevators for the runners. The whole nature
of the library is so different from those we
have been discussing, that the rules applied to
them do not hold. Such great halls, and vistas
of books, and maps, and pictures, have a value,
and, if they can be afforded anywhere, it is for
the national collection. I must, for the present,
vote with Mr. Spofford.

Dr. Guild, of Providence. — I heartily in-
dorse the remarks of Secretary Dewey. A
library building should be constructed with
reference to its special needs and surroundings,
and not in accordance with a fixed and unalter-
able plan. The much-praised “ stack plan ”
is admirable for the large library at Harvard,
and for similar collections where the books are
largely used for reference; Mr. Poole’s plan
is suitable for circulating libraries, where
utility and use must be the main consideration.
Neither of these plans would, however, answer
for a great national collection at Washington,
where beauty and taste must be consulted, and
public sentiment, too, as well as utility. My
own views, in regard to a college library es-
pecially, are in favor of the open alcove system,
where the books can be classified according to
subjects, and where the professors and students
alike can have free access to the shelves. The
new building of which I have the charge, at
Brown University, was constructed in accord-
ance with suggestions which I gave to the
architects in order to carry out these views.
The result has more than justified my most
sanguine expectations. During the five years
that it has been occupied not a complaint has
reached me from any quarter. The building is
a beautiful and costly structure, and the stu-
dents are naturally proud of it, and pleased be-
cause they are allowed to use it so freely.
During the past yeaf the circulation of the
library has been twenty-five per cent, greater
than in any past year since the library was or-

ganized, and yet not a book has been lost. It
is so perfectly ventilated that the temperature
of the third or upper story is precisely the
same as that of the lower floor, as I have fre-
quently verified. I should be glad to have you
all call upon me, when I will explain more
fully the new and improved system of ventila-
tion adopted for the building.

Mr. Green. — The feeling in favor of having
regard to ornamental architectural effects, even
at the expense of some inconvenience in the
management of the library, is widespread. Mr.
Rice, the member of Congress from the dis-
trict in which Worcester is situated, had charge
of the bill brought forward recently in Congress
to secure a building for the Congressional Li-
brary, and he tells me that he is himself in
favor of a handsome interior and exterior, even
if sacrifices have to be made to attain such a
result.

The United States can afford to pay less re-
gard to cost of management than the managers
of a city library.

Mr. Spofford may be trusted to have the best
arrangements made in his building that it is
practicable to secure. He has considered the
views of librarians who have plans to show
him, and now the matter should be left in his
hands.

It is to be hoped, of course, that he may be
able to secure a building which will not only
please the eye, but which in its arrangements
will be a model to persons from all parts of the
country, and from foreign countries, who will
visit it.

Mr. Ward, of the Grosvenor Library. ^ — I
move that these resolutions be referred to a
committee, with instructions to report to this
meeting at a later session.

This was voted. The President named
Messrs. Chamberlain, Homes, Smith, Peoples,
and Billings, as the committee.

Mr. Ward. — The report mentions the
protection of floors laid on cement against
vermin. I have vermin in my library. We
have tight floors laid on cement, and can’t
understand how they can get in. Can anyone
suggest.?

Mr. Fletcher. — They are there, and can’t
get out. (Laughter.)

Mr. Mann. — I understand by vermin — rats
and mice, not insects. The cement floors are
not a protection against insects.

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Dr. Homes, of Albany, then read his paper
on “ The arrangement on the shelves of the
books in the N. Y. State Library.”

{See p. 203.)

Mr. Edmands. — If the name of an author
of an anonymous book becomes known, what
then ?

Dr. Homes. — There are cross-references in
the catalogue.

Mr. Whitney. — The same for pseudonyms ?

Mr. Peoples, of New York, — Our plan is
the same in the Mercantile Library, where the
system works pretty well with 200,000 volumes ;
except where several books are wanted on the
same subject; then one may be on the lower
floor and the other under the roof.

Mr. Crunden. — We have the same system,
with two differences, in the St. Louis Public
School Library. Our books have the great ad-
vantage of being closely classified. They are
not lettei'ed on the back, but by a label inside
the cover. I thought I would learn all the new
systems, but gave up in despair when I heard
Mr. Poole say he couldn’t understand them, as I
didn’t want to devote my whole life to them.
We have close sub-classifications, and use the
alphabet plan under each final classing.

Mr. Whitney. — Do you follow William T.
Harris’ system in St. Louis.?

Mr. Crunden. — Yes, and find it perfectly
flexible.

Mr. Ward called attention to the desirability
of arranging for the convenience of librarians,
not of readers.

Mr. Dewey. — The author arrangement under
close classification, so far from being “old
fogy,” is the latest fashion. For the past five
years I have noted its growing use, and always
with satisfaction to the users. Since the plans
of translating names into numbers, devised by
Messrs. Schvrartz, Cutter, and Edmands, came
into use most of the difficulties of this plan are
met, and it is now the growing method. While
for the final arrangement after the books have
been distributed into classes, divisions, sections,
this seems best, care must be taken not to con-
fuse this “ alphabetical plan” with that used
at the N. Y. State and N. Y. Mercantile libraries.
Their plan puts all the Smiths, for example, that
have written on all conceivable subjects, into
one dreadful row from which to hunt out the
Smith you want. It has all the disadvantages,
great or small, of the relative location, and

very few of its advantages. To my mind, after
special study of shelf-arrangement for ten years,
the alphabetical plan under the final subject
classes is the best, and the same plan for the
whole library, without subject classing, is the
worst with which I am acquainted.

Mr. Crunden. — I am glad to know we have
the latest and best. I do not think the alpha-
betical arrangement alone the best; there
should be a classification even for beginners.

On motion of the Secretary, the President
appointed as the Committee on Resolutions :
Mr. Merrill, of Cincinnati; Miss Mary A. Bean,
of Brookline; Miss Lucy Stevens, of Toledo ;
and on Nominations : Messrs. Lamed, Crun-
den, and Soule.

DUTY ON BOOKS.

A communication from Mr. E. Steiger, of
New York, relating to the abolition of the
present tariff on books, was read by the Secre-
tary, and referred to a special committee —
Messrs. Homes, Foster, and Richardson.

Mr. Cutter, before reading his paper on
“ The arrangement of the States (of the U. S.)
and their notation in a system of library classi-
fication,” made answer to some points in Mr.
Perkins’ paper.

The blackboard was used in connection with
his own paper, and numerous questions an-
swered.

{See p. 205.)

Mr. Larned repeated the announcement of
the excursion and reception this p.m., and dis-
tributed the tickets for the same.

A recess was taken at i o’clock p.m., to meet
at 10 A.M. Thursday in McArthur’s Hall.

recreation.

The manner in which the afternoon was spent
was thus described in one of the Buffalo jour-
nals : —

“ The afternoon and evening excursion given
by the Young Men’s Library Association and
the Grosvenor Library yesterday afternoon (the
15th), was highly enjoyed by a party number-
ing about ninety, including twenty or thirty
Buffalonians. Messrs. George Howard and
S. S. Jewett placed their beautiful steam yachts,
the “ Orizaba” and “ Titania,” at the command
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river and around the lower end of Grand Isl-
and, within two and one-half miles of the Falls
(the spray rising almost alarmingly near to
some of the timid ones of the party, who saw
it for the first time), up the north branch of the
river to the new and elegant club-house of the
Falconwood Club (just erected on the spot
where the old one was burned in the early
spring). A most peculiar sunset, that at-
tracted general attention ; a well-served dinner,
with music; a stroll through the charming
grounds ; a return by moonlight up the beauti-
ful river — finished the day.”

FOURTH SESSION.

(THURSDAY MORNING.)

The Association was called to order in Mc-
Arthur’s Hall at 10 o’clock. Ninety persons
were present.

THE LIBRARY OF THE FUTURE.

Mr. Cutter read his paper on “ The Buffalo
Public Library in 1983.”

(^See f. 211.)

The paper was received with great applause,
and on motion of Mr. Smith, of Philadelphia,
the Association passed unanimously a vote of
“ thanks to Mr. Cutter for his instructive, en-
tertaining, and valuable paper.”

Dr. Homes said that he hoped we should not
have to wait till 1983 for many of these sugges-
tions ; we might see some of them carried into
effect within a score of years. Some persons
might think them Utopian, but from Utopia
came many useful things.

Mr. Guild. — Who was librarian.? and who
had charge of the study room for the night.?

Mr. Merrill. — What was his salary.?

the reading of the present.

The President. — From 1983 we will come
back to see how they read in 1883.

Miss Mary A. Bean, of Brookline, Mass.,
then read her paper on “The Reading of the
Young.”

(^See p. 217.)

SMALL LIBRARIES.

Miss Theresa H. West, of the Milwaukee
Public Library, read her paper on “ The Use-
fulness of Libraries in small Towns.”

{^See p. 227.)

ESSAY INDEX.

Mr. Edmands reported from the committee
which was appointed to take into consideration
the preparation of an Index to English litera-
ture, that they had decided that the work must
be done, and the doing should begin at once.
The committee were of the opinion that the
matter should be put in charge of an individual
who could be relied upon to manage, direct,
and superintend the work, with such a general
outline as was furnished by the committee or
the Association. The cooperation of all the
libraries would be had, and they thought that
a competent editor could be obtained. They
were not aiming to make an exhaustive index
of English literature, but it was to be so defined
as to be practical and its accomplishment fea-
sible. It should consist of essays, collective
works, and works of a general character similar
to a collection of miscellaneous essays. If the
Association approved their suggestions, they
would go ahead and arrange further details.

Mr. Green, as Chairman of the Finance
Committee, asked whether the report of the
committee, if accepted and adopted, pledged
the Library Association to any pecuniary sup-
port, stating that it had been the unifoi-m
practice of the Association not to undertake the
work of publishing.

Mr. Dewey. — There are two ways of mak-
ing this Index. One, for the Association to
control plans, execution, and publication, do-
ing the work through a committee. The other,
and, as it seemed to our special committee, the
better plan, is to agree on what we want, and
how much work we are willing to give to se-
cure the Index; then to select a man in whom
we all have confidence, and promise him our
support, both in doing indexing and in giving
our influence to advance the repute and sales
of the book. Either plan will work well. The
latter is the simpler for the Association, and
we think will ensure the earliest publication.

Mr. Fletcher. — We wish to feel the pulse
of the Association as to its preference for either
plan.

Rev. Dr. B. K. Peirce moved as an amend-
ment that the report be approved and recom-
mitted to the same committee, with power to
carry out the suggestions submitted in the
report.

Dr. Homes. — Is it to contain one hundred
or five hundred volumes.?

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Mr. Green. — We might approve the plan,
but not give power to act.

Mr. Smith. — It is a slur on the committee
not to intrust the whole matter to it. We can
give power to act — power to represent the
Association in the whole matter.

Mr. Dewey. — In voting this the Association
intrusts the w'hole matter to the editor selected
as an individual.

Mr. Poole. — I think there is no danger in
this line, and this committee can safely be
trusted to carry out its plan. There is no such
thing as dictation in this Association. Leave
the matter to our committee.

Mr. Green. — What kind of a vote does Mr.
Poole want.?

Mr. Poole. — Almost any vote will answer.
This committee have done more work than I
thought they could. Now let them go ahead.

Dr. Peirce’s amendment was adopted unani-
mously, and the motion as amended was
passed.

LIBRARY ASSISTANTS.

Mr. Merrill moved the adoption of the
following resolution : —

'•'■Resolved^ That, in the opinion of this Asso-
ciation, library assistants and attendants should
be selected, so far as possible, by competitive
examinations, and that a preference should be
given, when practicable, to those possessing a
knowledge of more than one language.”

Mr. Dewey. — What qualifications are to, be
required.? We are in danger of superficial and
confusing action unless we define our terms.

I heartily favor action, but I want it more ex-
plicit. We are a unit in opposing all library
appointments for political and social reasons
rather than fitness. (I don’t forget that good
social standing helps to make a man fit.) We
agree that some sort of examination is neces-
sary to ascertain fitness ; but is it to be written,
oral, or both.? formal or informal.? pedantic on
a series of questions on algebra and grammar,
etc., suitable for a teacher and utterly unim-
portant in a library, or is it to be controlled by
sanctified common-sense, and aim to find out,
in the surest and quickest way, whether the
candidate has the various needed qualities,
tastes, training, knowledge, etc., that are
needed on the library staff.? We can do good
service by preparing such a sensible scheme,
both to libraries who will use it and to the

large class who wish to fit themselves for li-
brary work and do not know what is requisite.

Mr. Ward. — Who is to make the examina-
tion .?

Mr. Merrill. — We have a plan by which
we appoint first and examine afterwards. I
simply wished to draw out an expression of
opinion.

Mr. Guild. — I wish that every librarian
could appoint his own assistants; but I sup-
pose this is in some cases impossible.

Mr. Foster. — I appreciate the difficulty
which has occasioned this resolution, but I am
confident that it wdll not meet the whole case.
It will certainly tend to reduce the number of
incompetent employes, but it will not secure the
employment of competent ones, so long as the
salaries in many libraries remain as low as they
are at present. I do not make any motion, for
I do not consider this a matter on which we
should take action, but I call the attention of
the Association to the matter.

Mr. Fletcher. — It seems to me that this is
a fragmentary resolution, that opens up only
one phase of a very important subject. W’ould
it not be better to have the whole subject taken
up in a paper, and followed by a full discus-
sion .?

Mr. Merrill. — I have brought this matter
up in two conferences, but have never been
able to get any action taken.

Mr. Dewey moved to refer the resolution to
a committee on requirements for library posi-
tions, with a scheme for examinations, to make
a full report at our next annual meeting.

Mr. Crunden favored the reference to a
committee, and thought that if any action
were taken, fitness for the position should be
made the sole test.

Mr. Fletcher. — I think a committee could
report some resolutions to-morrow morning,
and I suggest that we refer the subject to such
a committee.

Mr. Edmands. — I doubt whether it is wise
to make any reference at this time to the mat-
ter of salaries. That belongs to trustees and
directors, who will very naturally be jealous of
any apparent trenching upon their preroga-
tives. And it is really outside of the proper
province of this Association to express an
opinion on the subject. We should carefully
guard against any action that will put us even
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control of the libraries. It seems to me much
more prudent to limit the resolution to the
qualifications of assistants.

Mr. Dewey. — I am in favor of the sugges-
tion that the committee report resolutions to-
morrow. I am freer to speak of this matter,
because in mj'- own librarj we have already
adopted the plan of filling each vacancy with
the best incumbent we can find, fitness for
the place, determined by informal examination
by the chief librarian, being the sole ground
of appointment.

Mr. Peoples, of N. Y. — Does Mr. Merrill
think it absolutely necessary for all of his fifty
assistants to be acquainted with more than one
language ?

Mr. Dewey. — I move to refer the whole
matter to a committee of five to report to-
morrow.

The motion was passed, and Messrs. Merrill,
Crunden, Fletcher, Foster, and Dewey named
as the committee by the President.

On motion of Mr. Dewey it was voted
to meet this afternoon at 3, instead of 2
o’clock.

LIBRARY ARCHITECTURE.

Judge Chamberlain, for the Committee on
Library Architecture, reported the following
resolutions : —

Resolved., That it is the opinion of the Amer-
ican Library Association that a suitable build-
ing for the accommodation of the National
Library; and also a separate fire-proof build-
ing for the Medical Library and Museum of
the Surgeon General’s Office, should be pro-
vided with the least possible delay.

Resolved, That the Executive Committee is
instructed to prepare a memorial setting forth
the necessity of such provision, and to present
this to Congress, urging speedy action, at the
same time offering in behalf of the Association
to furnish any information or assistance in its
power which may be called for by the Con-
gressional Committee charged with the con-
sideration of the subject.

Mr. Poole. — I should like to embody in
these resolutions that we desire to be heard.

Judge Chamberlain. — Would not this be a
repetition of what w'e have done in previous
meetings }

Mr. Smith. — This matter was fully discussed
in the committee, and it was decided that the

expression of this desire should not be put in;
it would hardly be respectful.

Mr. Nelson. — It seems to me that this de-
sire is fully expressed in these resolutions; the
first declares the opinion of this Association to
be in favor of the immediate erection of suit-
able buildings; and the presentation to Con-
gress of the memorial provided for in the
second will be ^rima facie evidence of our
desire to be heard ; and this desire can be ex-
pressed in the memorial.

Mr. Edmands. — I want a stronger expres-
sion. There would be no disrespect involved.
I move the resolutions be referred back to the
committee with a request to incorporate this
desire.

Mr. Crunden seconded the motion.

Dr. Billings. — The committee were influ-
enced by the different views expressed in the
Association when this question was discussed
before. If included, this would imply a definite
desire on the part of the whole Association ;
but it seems to be quite uncertain whether or
not all are willing to make so strong an expres-
sion.

Mr. Soule. — This is a question of consider-
able delicacy. I think that these resolutions
are most carefully worded, and the best that we
can submit in dealing with a legislative bod3^
There are differences of opinion at Washington
to be considered. As the Assistant Secretary
has said, the desire is implied in the resolutions,
and can be embodied in the memorial. We
can influence our individual members of Con-
gress in our several districts also.

Mr. Poole. — This Association has never
committed itself to any plan for these build-
ings, but has given a general expression of
dissatisfaction with old methods. I shall be
satisfied if this memorial shall say that this
Association has expressed its views previously.

Mr. Ward. — Before we vote on this we
ought to know what has been previously voted.

Mr. Edmands withdrew his amendment.

The resolutions were then adopted.

DUTY ON BOOKS.

Dr. Homes, chairman of the committee
appointed to consider the matter of the aboli-
tion of duty on books, reported that it w’as
best, in the opinion of the committee, that
some action of the Association on the matter
should be taken, and he therefore offered a

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resolution, “That in the opinion of the Asso-
ciation the duty on books and other printed
matter imported was anomalous, unnecessary,
and unjust; that a memorial be sent to Con-
gress on the subject, and the Secretary request
librarians to sign similar memorials.”

Mr. F. W. Christern. — The duty on peri-
odicals has been abolished. Everything pub-
lished regularly, even if only once a year, is
considered a serial. Agents abroad have put
on my invoices books published in numbers,
but these are not serials, and I have struck
them otf.

Mr. Green. — Libraries get books free now,
and I should rather give my individual signa-
ture to a memorial than pass a vote of the As-
sociation.

Mr. Bowker. — I feel that I ought perhaps
to say a word on this matter, because I happen
to have some specific knowledge of the sub-
ject; on which it is to be understood that I
speak, not as an advocate of the present duties,
since I am myself a free-trader, and, in fact, an
officer of the free-trade organizations. But I
desire to point out that the proposed action
begins at the wrong end, and would produce
an effect which this Association — which
would scarcely desire to give its dictum on such
a topic hastily, or unadvisedly, or superficially —
would not, I think, wish to see produced. To
remove the duty on books without removing
the duty on the materials of books would leave
American publishers at a disadvantage of from
25 to 35 per cent., as against English publish-
ers ; and while I believe that Americans should
be, and are, able to hold their own in compe-
tition with other nations on even terms, cer-
tainly a system which gives our friends across
sea an absolute advantage over our own coun-
trymen, would not meet the approval of any
believer in fair play. And while I expressly
wish it to be understood that I speak only for
myself, I do not hesitate to say that the result
might be the serious one of compelling Ameri-
can publishers to do much of their manufactur-
ing abroad. While, as a free-trader, I should
be glad to see all duties taxing knowledge re-
moved or reduced, I think no plan should be
approved which', 'i5y upside-down measures,
works against Americans.

Mr. Richardson. — Is not copyright suffi-
cient protection ? I think this Association is
unwilling to put itself on record for free trade.

Mr. Edmands. — This matter is clearly and
wholly outside of the proper sphere of our
work as a Library Association, as really as any
other provisions of the tariff act. We can im-
port all the books we want for libraries free of
duty, and private individuals can import such
as have been printed more than twenty years.
I hope the whole matter will be dropped.

Dr. Homes. — We are willing to withdraw
our resolution.

Dr. Billings moved to refer the resolution
back to the committee, with Messrs. Bowker
and Edmands added.

Mr. Green. — I move to lay the whole mat
ter on the table.

The latter motion was seconded and carried.
Recess at 12.40.

FIFTH SESSION.

(THURSDAY AFTERNOON.)

The Association met again in MacArthur’s
Hall, and was called to order at 3 o’clock.

LETTERS.

The Secretary read letters of congratula-
tion and regrets, expressing hearty interest in
the A.L.A., from A. R. Spofford, Library of
Congress ; R. C. Davis, University ofMichigan,
Ann Arbor; S. B. Noyes, Brooklyn Library;
J: H. Barbour, Trinity College, Hartford; E:
W: Hall, Colby University, Waterville, Maine;
J. Schwartz, Apprentice’s Library, New York;
W: B: Clarke, bookseller, Boston; Mrs. E. M.
Bosworth, Harris Institute, Woonsocket,
Rhode Island ; F: Saunders, Astor Library,
New York; R. B. Pool, Young Men’s Chris-
tian Association of New York; J: N. Dyer,
Mercantile Library, St. Louis, Missouri; G:
Hannah, Long tsland Historical Society,
Brooklyn, New York; Ja. Bain, Jr., Public
Library, Toronto, and others.

Mr. R. B, Forbes, of Milton, Mass., wrote:
“ At the age of nearly seventy-nine, I feel con-
strained to stay at home for want of strength.”

Mr. H. F. Bassett, of the Silas Bronson
Library, Waterbury, Connecticut, wrote :
“ While the members, generally, will be hav-
ing a good time at Buffalo, I shall be transfer-
ring our 30,000 volumes to the new addition
to our library building.”

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Mr. Weston P'lint, Librarian of the Sci-
entific Library, United States Patent-Office,
wrote: “The absence of two of mj assist-
ants, and the extra work in printing our sup-
plementary catalogue ( of which the last sig-
nature came to-day), and the Index of French
patents, make it impossible for me to attend
the rinnual meeting of the A.L.A., this Aveek,
or to fully prepare the paper on the depart-
mental libraries of Washington, which I
greatly regret. I trust this small break in
jmur excellent program will not be noticed.
Please say this much for me, and in extenua-
tion you may also state, ■pro bono publico, that
the complete subject-matter Index of the
French patents (^Brevets d’i/ivenlion) , down to
1878, will all be published in about a month.

“ The Index to Italian patents is nearly ready
for the' printer, and we hope to have indexes of
the Belgian and German patents prepared the
coming year.

“As many questions have been asked in regard
to the index to Dingler’s Polytechnisches Jour-
nal, I am glad to add, that the manuscript to
that will be revised as soon as the French In-
dex is completed, and it Avill be brought down
to the end of this year, or nearly so, and sent
to the printer. We expect to complete the in-
dexing of all the foreign patents in the Library,
and print them within two years. I send by
mail some signatures of the Index to the
French patents, that the Association may see
what we are doing; as these indexes will, it is
hoped, be of special value to libraries having
sets of foreign patents, because one single in-
dex will bring any subject from the commence-
ment nearly to date.

“ I hope the matter of indexing will have its
proper place in your meeting, and when some
future Poole shall give us a complete index of
scientific periodical literature, and the Index
Society carry its vast scheme of “Indexes to
the subject-matter of the sciences,” some hur-
ried searcher after facts will be thankful for
efforts of the plodding indexers of this day,
w'ho began the work and made it possible, and
more thankful for such organizations as the
A.L.A., who created the indexers.”

Mr. J: Hallam, Chairman of the Toronto
Library Board, Avrote : “ On behalf of the Li-
brary Board of the city of Toronto, I beg,
through you, to extend an invitation to the As-

sociation to organize the meeting for 1884 in
our city.

“The recent passage of the free library bill
for the province of Ontario has stimulated
many municipalities to action, and we have in
Toronto already commenced operations. The
influence of the Association in strengthening
this feeling throughout the country would be
very great, and materially assist the cause of
free libraries.

“ Toronto is conveniently situated, has cheap
railway and steamboat communication with all
parts of Canada and the United States, and is
the seat of law, literature, and education for
Canada. Its population is 100,000.

“ As the next meeting of the British Associa-
tion is to be held in the city of Montreal, during
the month of August, 1884, arrangements, no
doubt, could be made for the presence of a num-
ber of the English librarians, thus rendering
the meeting of 1884 a truly international one.

“I need hardly say that the Library Board
will provide all necessary rooms, and will do all
in their power to make every member wel-
come.”

Mr. R. R. Bowker wrote: “The English
librarians thought that a dozen or more
might come to our 1884 conference, if held at
conA'-enient place and time, provided expenses
were moderate. They would evidently prefer
Boston, if your hospitality could be so soon
repeated and the West would postpone its claim.
The ocean passage (excursion) is $180, down-
wards. I find regular fares, Boston and New
York (Fall River boat), taking in Newport,
thence Hudson River, Saratoga, Lake George,
Niagara, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Wash-
ington, Philadelphia, New York again, would
come to about $90 ; hotels, four weeks, as much
more, — a total of $360. I think this may be re-
duced to $300, or £60. I would suggest a com-
mittee to arrange, with power to fix the date of
the conference.”

FICTION.

Judge Chamberlain presented a verbal re-
port on “ Fiction in Public Libraries.”

{Seep. ioS.)

President Winsor. — In 1873 the ratio of fic-
tion to the whole circulation Avas 82 per cent. ; in
five years it was reduced from 82 per cent, to 69
per cent.

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LIBRARIES AND SCHOOLS.

Mr. Green read a paper on “ Cooperation of
Public Libraries and Public Schools.”

{Seep. 229.)

When he had finished reading his paper,
Mr. Green stated that he had received from
Leeds, England, a newspaper cutting, a column
in length, which describes work just being
undertaken there to connect the public library
and schools. The plan adopted there consists
in extending the branch system so extensively
used in Leeds to the extent of placing little
branch libraries in some of the school-houses.
Much information is given in the article that is
taken from a little volume which Mr. Green
prepared and which was recently published by
Mr.Leypoldt, entitled, “ Libraries and Schools,”
and it is stated in it that although the kind of
work undertaken is experimental in England,
much of it has been done in America.

Mr. Poole. — The experiment of bringing
the work of the Public Library and the Public
Schools nearer together has been made with
some success, in Chicago, during the past year.
In my last Annual Report, issued in June, I
gave a general statement of the methods
adopted; and Miss Bean, in her report on
“ The Reading of the Young,” has made such
a liberal extract from the same, it will not be
necessary for me to repeat those details.

Our Public Libraries and our Public Schools
are supported by the same constituencies, by
the same methods of taxation, and for the same
purpose ; and that purpose is the education
of the people. For no other object would a
general tax- for the support of public libraries
be justifiable. If public libraries shall, in my
day, cease to be educational institutions, and
serve only to amuse the people and help them
to while away an idle hour, I shall favor their
abolition. The work of the libraries is a nec-
essary and logical supplement to the work of
the grammar schools, the high schools, and the
colleges. Carlyle has expressed the idea in
this way: “After all that the professors may
do for us, the real university is a collection of
good books.” The true relation of public
libraries to general education is getting to be
better understood ; and the fact that the subject
received such earnest consideration at our
meetings last year, at Cincinnati ; was again
assigned a place in our program here, and is on
the mind of thoughtful educators and librari-

ans in all parts of the land, is evidence of pub-
lic interest in the matter. Wherever the idea
has got abroad among the people, the public
libraries have had larger appropriations ; and
where no public libraries exist steps have been
taken to establish them.

As librarians, we can do little in bringing
about a closer relation between our libraries
and the schools unless we secure at the start
the cordial support of the teachers ; for it is
their work more than ours, and upon them de-
volves the labor of carrying out any plan which
may be devised. They must, therefore, be
consulted and their sympathy secured before
any other steps are taken in the matter. Like
the rest of us, teachers are very human and
sensitive beings ; and, whatever plan be adopted,
it is well to bring it before the public as a
proposition from the teachers.

That is the best plan which will best succeed
in bringing the pupils,of our schools in contact
with good books and their making the best use
of them. Pupils above the age of ten and many
still younger are reading something, and too
many of them are reading a low grade of books
and flashy serials which do them positive
injury. This reading cannot well be prohibited,
but it can be supplanted if the assistant teach-
ers who have the immediate charge of rooms
will interest themselves in the reading of the
children, will direct their attention to, and
furnish through the Public Library, better
books. Nothing they can do for the chil-
dren would exert such a beneficial influence on
their future lives. A large portion of the pupils
come from families where there is little or no
literary culture, and they drop out of school
before they have half finished the public course
of instruction. The only opportunity these
children 'have of ever getting some friendly
counsel in their reading is while they are in
school. Children will be better pleased with
good books, if they knew what they were, than
with bad ones. This precious opportunity of
learning something about good books they
now lose. It is a fact to be regretted that
many of the subordinate teachers in the public
schools know little about books suitable for
children, or books of any kind outside the
narrow range of text-books they are required
to teach; and hence they are not competent to
have the oversight of the reading of their
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reading of the children under their immediate
charge is laid upon them bj school committees
and boards of education, and is made one of
the tests in their examination for positions,
this incapacity will soon be rectified. The
lists which Miss Ilewins and Mr. Lamed have
prepared and printed will furnish teachers
with the titles of books which they can safely
recommend. These books the teachers should
read themselves in order to talk about them
intelligently to their pupils.

More than a year ago I met the principals of
the public schools in Chicago at one of the
meetings of their association and suggested
M^hat might be done in directing the reading of
their pupils, and what the Public Library was
ready to do if we could have their sympathy
and support. My suggestions were very cor-
dially responded to by the leading principals,
and a committee was appointed to consider and
report on the subject. The Board of Education
was later invited to meet the Library Board, and
at the meeting a scheme for joint action was
unanimously approved, after a full discussion.
A joint committee of both boards was appointed
to confer with the committee of the principals
and draw up a code of rules which should be
satisfactory to all concerned. Such a code of
rules has been adopted. They provide that
any principal of a high, grammar, or primary
school may make a requisition on the Public
Library for any number of books needed, to be
retained one month, and subject, in other re-
spects, to the regular rules of the library, — the
principals being personally responsible for the
proper use and return of the books, except in
cases of fire, burglary, and other causes over
which the principals have no control. The
Board of Education, however, guarantees the
return of all books taken out by the principals,
even in cases of loss where the latter are not
responsible.

The scheme in practical operation has given
great satisfaction. One teacher whose class is
studying Africa makes a requisition for fifteen
or twenty books on African exploration. These
books are given out to the pupils to be read and
talked about in the class. . Another teacher
wants twenty-five books on Am.erican biog-
raphy which furnish the subjects for brief writ-
ten exercises. Another teacher calls for twenty
books on United States history, to be read in
connection with the text-books on history.

A requisition comes for a score of juvenile
story-books, which are used in reading exer-
cises instead of the school-readers which the
pupils know by heart. They are then given
out to be read at home, and when the proper
time for the exercise comes, each pupil tells
what his story-book was about, what there was
in it which was pleasing or otherwise. Each
instructor exercises his or her own judgment
as to the best methods of using the books.
Teachers who have put the scheme in practice
say that it has worked admirably, and has
awakened an interest in their classes which
they have never seen before. These teachers
also talk to their pupils about the Public Li-
brary; how they can get access to it; what it
contains which will interest them; show them
the printed finding-lists, and how to use them.
We have had recently a large accession of young
persons to our army of book-borrowers.

We never supposed that with one hundred
thousand volumes we had books enough to sup-
ply our twenty-five thousand regular book-bor-
rowers, and all the schools of the city to the
extent which the scheme above described would
indicate. The result which was anticipated has
already appeared. The schools are providing
themselves with libraries, and are partly reliev-
ing the Public Library of the duty of supplying
their books. Several of the grammar schools
have within a year been furnished by the
private subscriptions of citizens with excellent
libraries, and others are moving in the same
direction. A principal called on me recently,
and said he had subscriptions to the amount of
$1,700 for his school library, and he wanted
$2,000. I saw, in glancing over his list, that
some of the most liberal men in his district had
not been seen, and that he was likely to raise
$3,000. Such subscriptions could not have
been raised before public attention had been
directed to the benefits of a systematic over-
sight and instruction in reading in the public
schools.

Before starting the Saturday-morning classes
at the Public Library, of which mention was
made in my report, I consulted with the princi-
pals and teachers of the three high schools,
and they very cordially approved of the plan,
and promised me their support. The interest
in these classes has been constantly increasing,
and the results are seen in the large number of
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tables and make a scholarly use of the library.
Having- studied some subject of history, litera-
ture, or science, in their text-book, it is to
them a genuine surprise to see the works on
that same subject which we lay before them at
these classes ; and it impresses them, as nothing
else could, as to the resources of the library and
the help it will be to them in their education.
A student can learn something of ‘botany from
his text-book; but in having two or three hun-
dred volumes on the subject, many of these ex-
pensive and illustrated works, laid before him,
with an explanation of their individual
characteristics and merits, the special depart-
ment of the science which each covers, and
the best methods of studying them — his view
widens, he gets some conception of what
the literature of botany is, and is inspired to
make use of these books in making special in-
vestigations for himself.

In my informal talks to the classes from
the high schools, I have endeavored to instruct
them in the methods of making the investiga-
tion of subjects independently of their teachers
or any outside help, and to form habits of
study which they will carry with them through
life. Their real education, if they are to be
educated persons, commences when they leave
school, and when books take the place of living
teachers. All their previous study has been
simply a preparation for a wider and broader
culture, which they must acquire for themselves
by fixed and systematic habits of study, what-
ever their calling in life may be. There is no
other education in the larger sense than self-
education; and there is no other investment of
human effort which pays so large a dividend of
happiness to the individual and usefulness to
the community as the systematic effort put forth
in self-training. The educated man is im-
measurably the superior of the uneducated man,
not simply because he has acquired more
knowledge, but chiefly because he knows how
to acquire knowledge, how to investigate
thoroughly any subject, and where to find what
the most eminent writers have said upon it.
The uneducated man knows not how to begin
the investigation.

Whoever expects, therefore, to be a scholar,
must cultivate the acquaintance of books, and
learn how to make the best use of them, for
they are the tools of his trade. This familiarity
with books he cannot acquire in the schools, but

may in a library; and the larger the library the
better will be his opportunities. It cannot be
taught by lectures or didactic instruction, but
must be gained by the actual use and handling
of books with the serious purpose of study and
investigation. The purpose of these Saturday
classes is : First, to show the resources of the
library. We have laid before the class the
books on a single topic onl3^ We can show as
many and as valuable books on a hundred
other topics. After the exercise is over we
take the class through the rooms and show the
books which are not here on exhibition, and
also the catalogues, and the methods on which
we do our work. We hope in this way to im-
press upon the pupils of the high schools the
value of the library, and its facilities for help-
ing them in their education. Second, to give
the class some instruction as to the best methods
of using these books, and of investigating
special subjects. We also extend the most
cordial invitation to the class to make the
freest use of all these privileges, and to come
to us for advice or help whenever it is needed.
Third, to give some special instruction on the
topic of the day, and especially in connection
with the books which are before them, — point-
ing out the relative merits of each, and how the
subject may be best studied.

It has been my custom, after a familiar talk,
— something in the line which has been
sketched, but varied as occasion may require, —
to take up some subject, perhaps the one which
is the topic of the day, and show the method
by which this, or any other subject, may be
looked up, and the best information upon it
found. The chief impression I have endeavored
to make upon the minds of the pupils is to in-
cite them to become familiar with the principal
works of reference, and to cultivate a taste for
books, and a facility in the independent and
scholarly use of them. It is a satisfaction to
feel that these efibrts have not been in vain. I
know of no pleasanter or more profitable duty
in which a librarian can engage than work of
this kind. The success which has attended the
experiment in Chicago has been largely owing
to the cordial support given it by the accom-
plished teachers of the high schools, who have
accompanied their classes and addressed them'
on the special subjects of the day. These ad-
dresses have been scholarly and entertaining,
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cultivated persons. Several of the principals
of the grammar schools have brought their
seventh and eighth grade pupils to the library,
and have participated in exercises similar to
those ^vhich have been described. Other
principals have expressed their intention to do
the same, and during the coming year all will
have the opportunity to bring their higher
classes. We have had many applications from
citizens to attend these exercises ; but our
limited accommodations did not permit it. In
the new library building, which we hope is in
the near future, a spacious room will be as-
signed to this work, and it then may be ex-
tended to the public.

Wherever a scheme, having such a purpose
in view, is put into successful operation, there
will be no lack of public interest in sustaining
a good library. It will be more effective in
securing liberal appropriations than begging,
scolding, or preaching. Some librarians com-
plain of the want of public appreciation of their
library and their work. If they will try this
experiment they will have no further occasion
for complaint, and will be surprised at the
generous appropriations the library will receive.
This work can be done most effectively in large
libraries, but it can be well done in small li-
braries. Many communities have stock or
subscription libraries which their managers
would be very glad to turn over to the public
if the public would consent to tax itself for their
support. Let their librarians or managers
quietly start such a work as this in coopera-
tion with the teachers of the public schools,
and there will soon be public libraries well
supported in those communities.

Mr. Foster. — I have preferred in presenting
my share of this discussion to wait until I had
heard what was brought forward by my associ-
ates who have preceded me (Mr. Green and Mr.
Poole). I have, therefore, noted down a few
points in their accounts, and will endeavor not
to tread upon their heels, nor to follow ex-
actly the lines which I have followed in treating
this subject elsewhere.

In the first place the library which I repre-
sent differs from that of Mr. Green in having
been very much less adequately endowed, and
from that of Mr. Poole in being in a very much
smaller community. I shall aim to show that
while the specific methods which appear in

their accounts (the large number of copies of
books furnished to schools at the same time,
the lectures to pupils at the library, etc.)
are exceedingly desirable if circumstances will
admit of them, yet there are many features en-
tirely feasible in a library with limited resources.

I will state that my first aim in entering on
this work at Providence was to interest the
teachers in it, and to make their acquaintance,
so far as was possible. First, the masters of
the schools, and through them the various
subordinate teachers. Also to make the ac-
quaintance of as many of the pupils themselves
as possible, in order that the work might be as
largely as practicable an individual one.

In the case of libraries so inadequately sup-
plied with resources and apparatus, it is all the
more necessary to make the most constant and
vigilant and unremitting use of such as are
available. Let every new teacher coming into
the place be welcomed to the public library, and
be made acquainted with its opportunities for
usefulness. Let every parent, so far as pos-
sible, be brought to take an interest in the
reading of his child. Let every instrumentality
of newspaper, church, or debating society be
turned to this common end.

Mr. Foster then touched briefly upon the
features which have characterized the develop-
ment of this cooperative work in Providence,
mentioning the interesting fact, that here, as
well as in other connections, the individuality
of the various schools has been clearly manifest
in the peculiar forms taken by this work in dif-
ferent schools. In one school, for instance,
the cooperation has manifested itself more in
the visiting of the library by the teachers with
the pupils than in any other way. In another
it has been chiefly manifested in the sending of
pupils by their teachers for works on speciflc
subjects. In another it has been manifested in
a very striking specific plan of training in
reading. (As these points have been explained
elsewhere’ by Mr. Foster, the description is
not reproduced here.)

Mr. Foster closed by drawing attention to
the necessity for libraries generally, taking up

1 See the report of Miss Ilewins, in 1S82, and of Miss
Bean, in 1883. See, also, his paper before the Boston Con-
ference, in 1879 {Library journal, 4: 319-25); his two
papers in Mr. Green’s “Libraries and schools”; some of
the chapters of his own “ Libraides and readers”; and
his five annual reports.

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the most comprehensive schemes of coopera-
tion which they may find practicable. As in
physical science, the existence of a necessity for
developing a certain function will in time
secure the needed medium through which it is
to be exercised, so in library economy the ex-
istence of the need for cooperation will develop
the methods of cooperation. And in some
cases the desire for more specifically intelligent
use of the library may itself be found to create
such use.

Remarks on the same subject were made by
Mr. C. W. Merrill, and Mr. K. A: Linder-
felt. Both related some curious experiences,
and they agreed that the public libraries were
daily becoming most important adjuncts to the
educational forces of the country.

Mr. Green said that, so far as possible, it
seemed to him best to try to interest teachers
in the work of availing themselves of facilities
offered by libraries, rather than to use compul-
sion, by working on them through superintend-
ents and committee-men.

Mr. Green then called attention to some fine
work which had been done by the librarian at
Gloversville, New York, in making his library
useful to schools, and moved that he be re-
quested to describe the work done by him in
the Library journal. The motion was carried.

(^The account is given at the end of these
Proceedings.^ ;p. 135.)

On motion of Secretary Dewey it was voted
to meet Fridays at 9 a.m., because of the large
amount of unfinished business.

A recess was then taken until 8 p.m.

SIXTH SESSION.

(THURSDAY EVENING.)

The Association was called to order at 8
o’clock, in the Executive Committee-room of
the Y. M. Library.

President Winsor presented his paper on the
“Early cartographical history of America,”
with blackboard illustrations.

SCHOOL OF LIBRARY ECONOMY.

Mr. Dewey. — Before beginning my paper,
it has occurred to me within a few minutes,
that those present would be interested in an ex-
periment we hope to try at Columbia. The
plan was outlined in the annual report to the
trustees, and they have referred it to a commit-

tee of seven, to report what can wisely be done.
To save time I will read from the report, as ex-
tempore my interest will lead me to use too
much time for our crowded program. Let
me warn you that I am reading the first rough
draft; that we propose, not to do some specific
thing, but to do what shall seem, after consul-
tation, the wisest and most helpful thing to the
library interest. We are committed to no spe-
cial plan. We feel that something ought to be
done, and wish to feel our way. We shall at-
tempt at first less rather than more than is
wanted, and increase our scope as experience
proves the need of it. I submit the outline so
much before we propose to begin work, to give
more time for suggestions and consultation. I
hope within three years we can start our first
class, and that to our modest beginnings we
shall add each year what proves to be needed.

In outline^ the instruction proposed might
embrace the following particulars : —

1. Practical Bibliography proper : To teach
what author and treatise is wanted.

2. Books : To teach what edition is best to
buy or borrow, whenever there is a choice of
editions.

3. Reading: To teach howto get from the
book what is wanted, and no more, most
quickly and most easily.

4. “ Literary methods ” (for want of a better
name) : To teach how to remember, record,
classify, arrange, index, and in everyway make
most available for future use, what has been
gotten from the books.

Without attempting any antiquarian or tech-
nical instruction, much can be done under
“Bibliography,” in giving a working knowl-
edge of what reference books there are, their
comparative merits in respect to given subjects,
and how to use them to the best advantage.
The average college student, not to say grad-
uate, is ignorant of the greater part of the
bibliographical apparatus which the skilled
librarian has in hourly use to enable him to
answer the thousand queries of the public. A
little systematic instruction would so start our
students in the right methods that for the rest

1 What follows is reprinted from the annual report of
the Trustees of Columbia College.

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of their lives all their work in libraries would
be more expeditiously accomplished and vastly
more efficient. In fact it is hardly an exagger-
ation to say that now students often, if not
usually, spend half their time in the library in
finding out what they don't want to know, and
the remaining half in getting confused notions
of what they do want tQ know.

In many cases, after knowing the author
and work wanted, there is room for large
choice in editions. This instruction is also
especially valuable as an aid in buying books, —
an item of no small importance to the average
college-bred man. Such questions as size of
type, leaded or solid composition, color and
quality of paper, binding material, method of
sewing, lacing in boards, head-bands, lettering,
illustrations, foot-notes, index, and all the
details which go to make up a perfect book,
have been studied and worked out to valuable
results, which can be cheaply and quickly im-
parted to the learner. As all of literary life is
based on books and reading, it is certainly a
wise investment to make of the little time
needed to acquire so much information on these
topics as is practically useful to an educated
reader, though he may not attempt to follow
out details valuable only to the printer, binder,
or publisher.

After choosing wisely author and edition, a
more important thing for practical training is
the best methods for use in reading. Some
men, by long years of experience and practice,
acquire the art of getting at the heart of a book
in one-fifth of the time taken by most readers ;
and this not in a merely superficial way, but so
as to have juster ideas of the author’s meaning
than those who have spent the longer time.
Much of this art depends upon personal quick-
ness, but enough of it can be imparted to any
youth of ordinary ability to enable him to
start in life with books, aided by all the good
methods that have been developed in the expe-
rience of others.

Filially, and perhaps most important of all,
is the aid that may be given in preserving
readily for future use all the results of this
reading. This involves a great many little
details, which in the aggregate are important,
and concerning which all needed instruction
and suggestion may be conveyed in little time.
Note and scrap books, index rerums, card
catalogues, card indexes, and the hundreds of

appliances and methods that have proved of
use to people who have perfected their modes
of working with them, may be made quickly
familiar. As a rule all these schemes, as
started by college youth, break doivn after a few
years, and the material becomes like so much
“ pi,” in a printer’s office, worthless. But it is
equally true that, with proper guidance and
suggestions at the first, these could be made a
complete success. No one questions the im-
portance of such record and preservation, and
the fact of failure as a rule only emphasizes the
importance of giving proper instruction in
regard to them in the beginning.

It is not proposed that the plan any one man
has found best for himself shall be taught uni-
formly to all our students, ignoring the per-
sonal equation of each ; but simply that the re-
sults of all experience in these directions be
focalized and digested, and the results of each
laid fairly before the students, showing its
strong and weak points, and thus enabling
them to decide, at the outset of their literary
lives, in the light of the experience of others,
these many questions that they can now decide
as wisely only at the end of a life of costly and
disheartening experience of their own.

In the past few years the work of a librarian
has come to be regarded as a distinct profes-
sion, affording opportunities of usefulness in
the educational field inferior to no other, and
requiring superior abilities to discharge its
duties well. The librarian is ceasing to be a
mere jailer of the books, and is becoming an
aggressive force in his community. There is
a growing call for trained librarians, animated
by the modern library spirit. A rapidly in-
creasing number of competent men and women
are taking up the librarian’s occupation as a
life-work. Thoughtful observers say that pub-
lic opinion and individual motives and actions
are influenced now not so much by what is
uttered from the rostrum or the pulpit as by
what is read ; that this reading can be shaped
and influenced chiefly and cheaply only through
the library, and, therefore, that the librarian
who is master of his profession is a most po-
tent factor for good.

In our colleges every professor and every
student, in whatever department, necessarily
bases most of his work on books, and is, there-
fore, largely dependent on the library.

Recognizing the importance of this new

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profession, and the increasing number of those
who wish to enter it, we are confronted bj the
fact that there is absolutelj nowhere any pro-
vision for instruction in either the art or science
of the librarian’s business. Prominent library
officials tell us that it is no uncommon occur-
rence for young men and women of good
parts, and from whom the best work might
fairly be expected, to seek in vain for any
opportunity to fit themselves for this work. It
is simply impossible for the large libraries to
give special attention to the training of help
for other institutions. Each employe must
devote himself to the one part of the work that
falls to his share, so that he can know little of
the rest, except what he may learn by acci-
dental and partial absorption of their methods.
There is a constantly increasing demand for
trained librarians and cataloguers, and there
is no place where such can be trained. A
limited number maybe here and there found
who have had certain experience in parts of
library work, but few who have been systemati-
cally trained in any, and fewer still who have
had such training in all. The few really great
librarians have been mainly self-made, and
have obtained their eminence by literally feel-
ing their way through long years of darkness.

It is possible, in connection with a library
like ours, already respectable in the number of
its volumes, yearly growing and destined to be
great, to supply this want at a cost trifling
compared to its importance. No instruction in
languages, literature, history, science, or 'art,
now given in any of our various schools, need
be duplicated for this purpose. No expensive
apparatus is needed to accomplish it. The
necessary libi'ary, in operation as a basis for
study, is already provided, and other libraries
in which to study and compare various systems
of administration are at hand in the metropolis
of the country as nowhere else.

[In saying this I do not raise the question of the merits
of N.Y. libraries or methods. Sometimes it is more use-
ful to study the things to avoid than those to imitate.]

The instruction and needed inspiration for
the work can be given best by lectures by the
recognized authorities in each special depart-
ment of library work.

Inquiry among several leading members of
the profession has uniformly shown great in-
terest in the project of such a school, and a uni-
versal willingness to assist it in every way.

The course need not be greatly extended, as
only the technical parts of the work would re-
quire treatment in it.

Such a school is called for, not only by the
inexperienced who wish to enter upon library
work, but by a growing number of those
already engaged in it. Of the five thousand
public librarians in the United States not a few
would gladly embrace such an opportunity to
bring themselves abreast of modern library
thought and methods ; and their employers
would find it economy to grant them the nec-
essary leave of absence to enable them to do
so. If it be true, as is so often stated, that ten
thousand volumes catalogued and administered
in the best way are more practically useful
than thirty thousand treated in an unintelli-
gent or inefficient manner, then it is of the
greatest importance to advance by every pos-
sible means the general standard of library
work throughout the country. As those best
qualified to judge, who have given the subject
their attention, agree that such a school once
established and properly conducted is sure to
succeed, and as it is now practicable for us to
assume the leadership in this department and
to offer such instruction, the undersigned
would respectfully recommend to the Trustees
that they should take into serious considera-
tion the expediency of opening here at an early
day a school such as is above described.

A few copies of the above outline of plans,
which it is hoped the Trustees of the College
will adopt and put in operation in connection
with our newly organized University Library,
are reprinted by request, and will be mailed to
any one specially interested.

Fitting up the new building, moving, and
consolidating into one the five present libraries,
classing closely on the shelves, and making
Accession, Shelf, Author, and Subject cata-
logues, besides the usual work of the Reference,
Loan, and Administration departments, will
crowd our time at present. Should the
Trustees approve, as is hoped, the Professor-
ship of Bibliography and the School of Libra-
rianship, though kept steadily in mind, must
follow the above work. Meanwhile we wish
suggestions, opinions, and criticisms of the
plan. All such will have careful attention,
and we earnestly ask the reader not to neglect
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shall specially value notes on minute details,
liable not to be sent because of their compara-
tive unimportance. If each one interested,
without waiting to accumulate matter and so
forgetting all, will send promptly each idea or
suggestion 'when it occurs., if only on a post-
card, we shall have a mass of just such minute
details as in the aggregate will contribute
much to the complete success of the school,
should the scheme, as we hope, receive the
sanction of the Trustees.

In asking thus earnestly this cooperation we
hardly overrate the importance of the proposed
undertaking to the library interests of the en-
tire country, in raising our work to the full
rank of a regular profession, with its recog-
nized courses of instruction, its certificates and
degrees conferred by the University, and
chiefly in providing for the new libraries open-
ing almost daily, and for the old ones taking on
new life, men and women trained in the best
methods, and full of that potent influence which
we call “ the modern library spirit.”

Mr. Smith. — I think there can be but one
opinion in the minds of all present. We have
all felt from our experience the want of sys-
tematic instruction in the best methods of per-
forming the duties of librarians. Such instruc-
tion is very much wanted. I am sure I express
the opinion of many, if not of all here, in say-
ing that it is a desideratum ] and I have confi-
dence in the gentleman who is to undertake it.

A VOICE. — “So say we all of us.”

Ml-. Dewey. — I think it would be well to ap-
point a committee, to report in the morning if
found desirable, a resolution expressing the in-
terest of this Association in the proposed ex-
periment. As I said before, my object in
bringing up this preface to my paper was to
elicit as much criticism as possible, as your
strictures on this outline will have great value,
as we come to decide the details of our pro-
posed school. I urge that all doubts and fears
may be expressed with the utmost freedom.

Mr. Poole. — As Mr. Dewey has asked for
suggestions and criticisms on his plan, I will
say that I think he is in error in stating that
there is now no institution in this country for
educating librarians. I have the impression
that there is an excellent one in Boston, known
as the Boston Public Library ; there is another
in Boston, called the Boston Athenaeum, and
still another in the adjacent city of Cambridge,

called the Harvard College Library. There
are in different parts of the country still other
institutions which are doing good work in this
department of education. We are doing some-
thing in this line at the West, — in Chicago, St.
Louis, Milwaukee, and Peoria. In Chicago we
have trained some assistants who, as skilful,
practical bibliographers, will compare favorably
with any in the land. In fact, I have enter-
tained the idea that practical work in a library,
based on a good previous education in the
schools, was the only proper way to train good
librarians. The information cannot be im-
parted by lectures ; and who, that is competent,
has the time to do the lecturing.? Considerable
experience in library work is necessary before
the pupil will be able to appreciate oral instruc-
tion, or even understand the nomenclature and
phraseology of our profession. New libraries
are springing up all over the Western States,
and librarians are appointed from the local can-
didates, who have had no library experience of
any sort. Scarcely a day passes in which one
or more of these tyros does not come to my
library for information ; and I am always glad
to give them such help as I can — but how little
they can take ! The>^ have the impression that
they can learn in one day all they need to
know. I have spent an hour in explaining the
simplest details of library management, and
then found, by putting some test question,
that the person I had been trying to instruct
had understood little or nothing of what I had
been talking about. I usually tell these people
frankly, at the start, that they will not under-
stand the explanations I should make until they
have had some practical experience in library
work. If they will come to the library and
work fora month, reading up in the meantime
the theory of the subject, they will be in a con-
dition to receive some oral instruction. Several
persons have accepted this proposal, and have
worked without pay in our regular corps of at-
tendants. At the end of a month they have
begun to appreciate how much there is to learn
in order to be a competent librarian, and are
put in a way of making some progress by
themselves. There is no training-school" for
educating librarians like a well-managed li-
brary. There is a dearth at present of trained
librarians, who, at moderate salaries, are willing
to take charge of small libraries, and grow up
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still greater dearth. I am constantly receiving
applications for them, and they are not to be
found. The few persons in the country who
follow this work as a specialty are constantly
engaged. It a duty, I think, which the larger
libraries owe to the profession to attach to
their cataloguing departments a corps of com-
petent young persons to learn the art of cata-
loguing ; for the work can be learned nowhere
else than in a large library. The service they
would render would be sufficient to pay for
their instruction. We can scarcely blame the
managers of libraries for appointing as their
librarians persons who have had no experience
in library work, when there are not trained
librarians enough to supply the demand. We
cannot blame them for not having their libra-
ries catalogued, when there are not cataloguers
enough to do the work. I do not wish to throw
cold water upon the scheme —

Mr. Guy A. Brown. — It seems to me that
the gentleman has thrown a whole pool.
(Laughter.)

Mi'v Poole. — I am not throwing cold water
upon Mr. Dewey’s scheme; for I do not pre-
cisely understand what he intends to do, if
anything, beyond what I have stated as desira-
ble to be done, and what every large library
ought to be doing. I have the impression,
however, that his plan includes something
more, such as giving systematic instruction by
means of lectures to classes in bibliography,
and making it a part of the curriculum in the
optional course of studies in Columbia College.
Imparted to us as information, it is certainly
interesting; and if the scheme shall be put into
operation and shall succeed, it will be a very
great credit to its author. The scheme, how-
ever, at present, is only talked about, — it is in
the air. This Association, with the little infor-
mation it has, cannot be expected at this time
to express any opinion as to the practicability
of the scheme. When Mr. Dewey has put it in
successful operation, and has educated some li-
brarians, the Association will be the first to in-
dorse his methods and commend them to the
public.

Mr.WARD.— Is |his education to be gratuitous ?

Mr. Dewey. — As I said at first, this scheme
is not elaborated. It would be two or three
years before we begin. Probably there will be
a moderate fee for instruction, as in the other
departments of the university.

Mr. Mann. — I have lived in Cambridge and
Boston fourteen years, and have tried to learn
all the details of library work in vain. I would
be delighted to have the opportunity to ques-
tion Mr. Dewey, Mr. Cutter, and others, each
one hour, and pay for it. I feel that this is the
opportunity wanted.

Mr. Whitney. — Perhaps we should have
taken more readily the idea of this scheme if
Mr. Dewey had begun at the other end : had
his library finished, his assistants engaged, his
scheme of instruction laid out, etc. It is an
endless trouble to instruct volunteers one at a
time. I have found it a weariness and a loss.

Mr. Homes. — How far advanced in' educa-
tion should persons be who should attend this
school ? I should think they ought to be gradu-
ates, at least, of a high school.

Mr. Dewey. — Any one, young or old, of suf-
ficient intelligence to get good from the course
ought to have the chance. We hope for edu-
cated candidates, especially the undergraduates
of Columbia College. Some people of leisure
in the city we hope will be drawn in. But all
this is assuming that I have a detailed plan to
submit. I only give an outline of a plan I may
be able to submit next year or year after.
What Mr. Whitney says of weariness and loss
of time is true, and one of the reasons for our
school.

Judge Chamberlain. — We are asked to ex-
press our opinion that there is a need of this
school proposed at Columbia College, and that
it would be useful. Useful to whom.? I can’t
express an opinion at half an hour’s notice.
We are asked to express an opinion, but who
knows.? I do not. There may be two opinions
whether this school will be so efficient as to in-
duce librarians to take assistants thus educated.

Mr. Cutter. — While agreeing with Mr.
Poole as to the excellence of libraries as
schools of library economy, I think we can go
one step farther.

I have trained many assistants at the Boston
Athenaeum; but I find one objection to con-
sidering our library as a training-school for the
supply of other libraries. Young women have
come to me with that idea, — of learning a
profession, and then getting a place elsewhere;
but the result has generally been that they
stayed with me, and supplied the gaps caused
in the ranks of the older workers by death and
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Boston Public Library. It is only of late years
that we have fallen into the way of having a
larger corps than we need, several of whom
are usually away, — different ones at diffej-ent
times, — cataloguing libraries, private and pub-
lic, making indexes, and the like.

Undoubtedly it is well that a librarian should
have worked in a library; there are some
things which he will never understand unless
he has. But any one merely employed as
assistant in a large library is likely to be as-
signed to one particular department, and to
understand that only. And, even if his chief
takes'care that he shall have variety of work,
he only learns the methods of one establish-
ment; and as those are probably all determined
upon before he goes there, he only learns them
by rote, and, unless he is unusually philo-
sophic, never thinks of the reasons for them.
No one is thoroughly fit to have charge of a
library who has not pursued some comparative
study, and learned to reason about what he
does.

This discussion reminds me of something
that occurred lately in our town.

A young m.an in Winchester wished to be-
come a civil engineer. When he left the High
School he was advised by his uncle, who was
himself a civil engineer in Buffalo, to come
here and begin at the bottom of the profession,
that is, as chainman, and gradually work up, if
he could. He did so. At the end of a year
his uncle said to him, “ You know now what
engineering is ; you have become familiar with
the practical details, and you have begun to
find out how little you know and what you
need to know. Now go to a professional
school, and study the theory.^' There are men
of both sorts among us, — those who have
learned only by practising the profession, and
those who have been taught in the schools ;
and I have always noticed that the regularly
educated men get the best positions and the
best salaries."

Mr. Merrill. — I have been surprised at the
remarks of Messrs. Poole. fTnd Chamberlain.
Lawyers said the same things twenty years ago
against law schools. This objection was raised
against professional schools for instructing in
the management of machinery, and yet they
are successful abroad and in this country. Dr.
Billings will say the same is true in medicine.
I should have been glad to have been told

things I have had to learn by experience. Our
teachers are taught in Normal schools; let us
have librarians taught in a Library school.

Dr. Billings. — I can appreciate the feelings
of Messrs. Poole and Chamberlain against call-
ing on an association for an expression of
opinion on a plan not yet worked out. I think
less of lectures than of laboratory work. I do
not think there is any short cut. I feel reluct-
ant to give an indorsement when the course of
instruction is not elaborated nor the plan
laid out. Johns Hopkins University might ask
for the same as well. I move the appointment
of a committee to consider what resolution, if
any, could be presented for action.

Mr. H. J. Carr, of Grand Rapids. — My
stand-point is different from that- of all others
present. I have taken time to attend this As-
sociation for instruction and information, and
I have always been repaid. If it were possible
I am sure that I should like to attend a course
of instruction in the proposed school of li-
brarianship. I am by profession a skilled ac-
countant. I have never had any instruction in
a business college ; but I would advise a young
man to go to one. This training is more
needed in library work than most others, and
this proposed instruction would be a life-long
benefit to any librarian.

Mr. Crunden. — In saying that this school
is desirable, we are not called upon for any-
thing further, as to qualifications for entrance,
etc. This friction that we have had will pro-
duce a healthy reaction from the cold water.

Mr. Green. — This is not a new idea. The
same thing was talked over on our way to
England, and in repeated meetings among
prominent librarians. It is desirable that some
first-class institution should take up this matter.
A school of apprenticeship is also needed in
connection.

Mr. Dewey. — The laboratory is to be a
central and essential part of the scheme, — thus
giving Mr. Green’s apprenticeship. We plan
to have actual work done under the careful
personal supervision of an expert who excels
in explanation. ^

Dr. Billings’ motion seconded and

carried.

The President named Messrs. Cutter,
Chamberlain, Mann, Carr, and Merrill as
the committee.

Mr. Dewey, on account of the time con-

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sinned in the discussion, and the pressure of
unfinished business, announced a meeting after
adjournment, to inspect Mr. Larned’s applica-
tion of the Amherst or Dewey classification,
and withdrew Iris paper from the program.

A recess was taken till Friday.

SEVENTH SESSION.

(FRIDAY MORNING.)

The meeting was called to order at 10 o’clock.

PUBLIC DOCUMENTS.

Mr. Green, of the Committee on the Dis-
tribution of Public Documents, after reading a
joint resolution passed by Congress last year,
said that the committee had unanimously
agreed to report that Congress be asked to pass
the following resolution, instead of present-
ing the petition recommended in their first re-
port on Tuesday morning : —

Resolved, By the Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives in Congress assembled, that any
State or territorial library, or any one of the
libraries designated by a Senator or Representa-
tive, according to law, to receive sets of public
documents, shall, on the payment of $25 to the
public printer, before the beginning of a session
of Congress, have sent to it by the said public
printer a copy of every document, as soon as it
is stitched, that Congress has ordered to be
printed during the session.

The report was accepted, and the committee
was instructed to present the request.

LIBRARY ASSISTANTS.

Mr. Merrill, for the Committee on the Ex-
amination of Library Assistants, reported that
the committee recommended the adoption of
the following resolution : —

Resolved, That efficiency in library admin-
istration can best be obtained through the
applications of the cardinal principles of an
enlightened civil service, viz., the absolute
exclusion of all political and personal influ-
ence; appointment for definitely-ascertained
fitness, promotion for merit, and retention dur-
ing good behavior ; and

Resolved, That, in the opinion of this Asso-
ciation, in large public libraries, subordinate
employes should, so far as possible, be selected
by competitive examination, followed by a pro-
bationary term.

Dr. Homes objected to the word “ competi-
tive,” and moved that it be dropped.

Mr. Merrill. — I am sorry an attack is
made on this word, which contains the gist of
the resolution. Examinations not competitive
amount to nothing anywhere. Without them
favoritism will still be retained. We want the
best-qualified persons for our assistants.

Judge Chamberlain remarked that the res-
olutions were clearly divisible. The first was
against political influence and preference ; the
second in favor of competitive examination.
He moved to amend by striking out all after
“ and that in the opinion.”

This amendment was lost.

Dr. Homes renewed his amendment, which
was also lost. The original resolution reported
by the Committee was then passed.

THE NEXT MEETING.

The Secretary called the attention of the
Association to the invitation from the Library
Board of the city of Toronto to meet in that
city next year, and asked for some action in
reference to the same.

Mr. Bowker moved that the invitation be
accepted, and that the Executive Committee be
charged with inviting the visiting librarians
from England to meet with us next year.

Mr. Merrill moved as an amendment that
the selection of a place for holding the meeting
next year be left to the Executive Committee,
with full power.

The amendment was accepted, and the mo-
tion passed.

On motion of Mr. Bowker, the thanks of the
Association were voted to the Toronto Library
Board for their kind invitation, and it was re-
ferred to the Executive Committee for their
favorable consideration.

On motion of Mr. Dewey, the invitations
from St. Louis and New Haven were referred
to the same committee.

VOTES OF THANKS.

Mr. Merrill, for the Committee on Resolu-
tions, presented the following, which were
unanimously adopted : —

Resolved, That the thanks of the American
Library Association are hereby tendered to
Mr. James W. Ward and his associates on the
Committee on Reception and Arrangements,
and to Mr. J. N. Lamed and his associates on

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the Committee on Program, for their kind
and successful efforts to render pleasant the
visit of the members of the Association to Buf-
falo ; to the Executive Committee of the Young
Men’s Association of Buffalo, and the Trustees
of the Grosvenor Library, for very numerous
courtesies of hospitality ; to the Hebrew Young
Men’s Association, for the use of its hall; to
Mr. Sherman S. Jewett and Mr. George How-
ard, for the beautiful trip down the Niagara
river upon their steam yachts; to the Falcon-
wood Club, for its generous hospitality ; to the
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy; the Society of
Natural Sciences ; the Buffalo Historical So-
ciety; the German Young Men’s Association;
the Catholic Institute, and the faculty of Cani-
sius College, for courteous invitations to visit
and inspect their valuable collections, and to
the press of Buffalo, for its very complete re-
ports of the proceedings of the Association.

Mr. Bowker presented, and Mr. Dewey
seconded, the following resolutions, which
were voted on separately, and unanimously
passed : —

Resolved, That the American Library Asso-
ciation records its thanks to Mr. W: F. Poole,
alike for the magnificent service accomplished
for libraries and scholarship in general by the
completion of his Index, and for thus proving
the possibility of the largest cooperative enter-
prises in the future; to Mr. W: I. Fletcher, for
his admirable editorial administration of the
practical details of the work during the five
years of patient preparation, and to Messrs.
James R. Osgood & Co., for the excellence
with which they have accomplished its publi-
cation ; and

Resolved, That while commending this work
to the support of librarians and students in
general as a labor-saving tool, the A.L.A.
particularly recommends its purchase by
smaller libraries, as a key, not simply to such
periodicals as they may have on their shelves,
but also as a guide for individual readers to the
material to be found elsewhere.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Mr. Larned reported, for the Committee on
Nominations, Messrs. Winsor, Dewey, Whit-
ney, Cutter, and Green, Executive Committee.
The report was accepted, and, on motion of

Mr. Edmands, this Executive Committee was
unanimously elected.

Mr. Earned made an amendment in refer-
ence to the price of return tickets to the West,
and the steps to be taken by members to obtain
them, and distributed tickets for the afternoon’s
excursion to Niagara Falls.

Mr. Dewey. — The publishers and book-
sellers, Peter Paul & Bro., whose store on the
street floor underneath this hall will repay a
visit, because of its arrangements, have sent,
with their compliments, copies of the “ Guide to
Niagara,” to supply all our members.

Mr. Cutter moved, and Mr. Dewey sec-
onded, that the Finance Committee invite Mr.
Leypoldt to print the records of this meeting
of the Association in the Library journal
on the same conditions as last year. Voted
unanimously.

Mr. Linderfelt moved that a full list of
the members be printed with the report, with
marks showing their status as active or asso-
ciate members.

Mr. Mann moved as an amendment that the
names of members who have resigned be
omitted. The amendment was accepted and
the motion passed, with instruction to the
Secretary and Treasurer to drop from the list
names of those more than two years in arrears.

RULES FOR CATALOGING, ETC.

Mr. Cutter made a verbal report for the
Cooperation Committee on Catalog Rules.

On motion of Dr. Billings, the report was
accepted, and the committee were instructed to
print their rules in the Library journal.

(See j>. 251.)

Mr. Dewey moved that the Cooperation
Committee be requested to prepare and print
in the Library journal a code of rules for the
transliteration of titles from languages not
using the Roman alphabet.

Mr. Nelson seconded the motion, and said
that, in his own experience, he had found a
great need of definite rules for transliteration;
that a perplexing want of uniformity obtained
in all cases that had come under his observa-
tion, and that he had requested the Secretary
to bring this matter up, in the hope that a
committee of this Association might, perhaps,
with the cooperation of eminent authorities in
this country and abroad, fix upon a series of

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rules for transliteration, which would be recog-
nized and adopted as the highest authority.

Mr. Bowker suggested that the committee
be requested to add Mr. W. P. Garrison,' of
New York, to their number, a gentleman who
had given a great deal of attention and study
to this subject.

The motion was passed.

SCHOOL OF LIBRARY ECONOMY.

Mr. Cutter, for the committee on the pro-
posed school for librarians at Columbia Col-
lege, presented a majority report, agreed to by
four of the members. He said : We were
ordered to draft a resolution expressing the
feelings of the Association in regard to the
proposed school for librarians at Columbia
College. It appeared in the discussion, last
night, that a large part of the members of this
meeting are warmly interested in the proposal,
and hope much from it-; but when it came to
giving voice to this feeling the committee were
divided. We all saw that we were not called
upon to approve any plan, for none had been
presented to us. We were also agreed that
whatever plan might hereafter be adopted the
result was uncertain, as we knew neither how
many persons would avail themselves of it, nor
what instructors could be found to teach them,
nor how much could be taught in so new a
branch of learning. This ignorance seemed to
one member of the committee sufficient reason
for saying nothing at all. To the other four,
however, it was evident that we never can
know any of these things till the experiment is
tried, and they esteemed it in the highest degree
fortunate that a body has been found which is
willing to make the trial. It seemed to them
that the best the Association can do is to greet
this disposition with the assurance of its in-
terest and approval, and therefore they recom-
mend the adoption of the following resolution,
in which, for the sake of the doubters, we have
not committed the Association to any prophe-
cies : —

Resolved^ That this Association desires to
express its gratification that the trustees of
Columbia College are considering the propriety

1 It was found later that Mr. Michael Heilprin, not Mr.
Garrison, was the author of the articles in the Nation to
which Mr, Bowker alluded, and, by general consent, he
was appointed in Mr, Garrison’s place.

of giving instruction in library work, and hopes
that the experiment may be tried.

Judge Chamberlain presented as his minor-
ity report the following : —

Resolved^ That this matter be referred to a
committee to report more definitely at the next
meeting of the Association.

He opposed the resolution as coming
before the Association so late as to preclude
examination, and objected to the Association
sending out any unconsidered resolution. It
would be like the trade dollar, of light weight.
We ought not to pass a hasty utterance.

Mr. Green. — I think that Judge Chamber-
lain is mistaken in his views. Having come so
recently into the management of a great library,
and attended so few of our meetings, he has
perhaps not learned that we are not forming
judgments in regard to this matter hastily. I
remember that the matter of trying to have
facilities provided for training and educating
persons wishing to become librarians was
talked over at length by the gentlemen and
ladies who went to the conference of librarians
in London, in 1877. They held long conversa-
tions on shipboard regarding the subject, and
it was generally considered very important that
such facilities should be somewhere provided.

On our return I wrote to Professor Winsor,
urging him to try to make use of the opportu-
nities afforded by his connection with Harvard
College to interest that great institution in
undertaking such a work, and his connection
with librarians to interest in the scheme the
managers of libraries in Boston and its neigh-
borhood, thus securing the means to seekers
after information of getting at the experiences
of librarians through lectures, etc., and practi-
cal training in libraries.

The matter now under consideration has been
frequently discussed at meetings of this Associ-
ation ; if not publicly, certainly in the conver-
sation of librarians attending them, and by
librarians when they have met on other occa-
sions than these meetings.

It is very desirable that there should be some
such school as that the establishment of which
is contemplated by Columbia College.

I am surprised to hear librarians say that
instruction should be given exclusively in li-,
braries.

Mr. Dewey, not long since, asked my opinion
in regard to the establishment of courses of

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lectures at Columbia College. I answered that
I thought it very important that such courses
should be established somewhere, and asked
him if it was not possible to combine with them
a system of apprenticeship, so that actual library
work might also be done by students in different
libraries in or near New York city, or at a dis-
tance from the city.

There certainly can be no doubt that it would
be of solid advantage to persons wishing to
become librarians to have the opportunity of
listening to the experiences of the best libra-
rians, speaking on their specialties. It is better
that their instruction should come from several
rather than from one librarian, and that they
should be protected from narrow views, which
would follow instruction in a single library.

Columbia College, one of the great universi-
ties of the country, can certainly be trusted, if
it undertakes to give instruction, to give good
instruction.

Dr. Billings. — I don’t see why we should
limit this to Columbia College ; why not make
it a general declaration }

Mr. Harris, of Cornell University Library,
thought that the resolutions should be made to
cover other universities, and moved the adoption
of the resolution for a fuller report next year.

Mr. Bowker. — It is the business of the libra-
rian to educate the people.

The question of the adoption of the minority
report was then put and lost.

Dr. Billings.— Have the trustees of Co-
lumbia College taken a preliminary step tow-
ards establishing such a school.?

Mr. Smith. — They have already taken such a
step.

Mr. Dewey. — That is the fact, and that is
the reason why Columbia should be named,
to the exclusion of other universities which
have as yet signified no interest in establish-
ing such a school.

In view of the totally unexpected and pro-
tracted discussion I may be pardoned a few
personal remarks. Several speakers seem
utterly to forget my first statement, that it was
on the spur of the moment that I read, as a
matter of interesting news, an outline which
I had printed to send to members, so they
might at leisure think over the subject and send
in suggestions that would help to elaborate the
plan; that all was in a formative stage, and
that we wanted to do simply what might be

needed. These speakers assume that a plan is
submitted for the endorsement of this Associa-
tion ; that we had a fixed plan, which there was
no time to examine and pass upon at this meet-
ing. I never dreamed of anything of the sort.
I hope we may have something more definite at
another meeting, when all this discussion will
be in order. A committee could secure and
tabulate opinions, and perhaps suggest in out-
line the course of instruction. We at Columbia
wish to do the most useful thing, and this
Association can help us to find out what is
most needed.

As to the “ cold water,” its effect is wholly
tonic. When I proposed, in 1876, to organize
this Association, and to found the Library
journal., I was assured, by the same element
that question the school idea to-day, that there
was no room for either; they were not needed
except in my very excellent theory of their use-
fulness, and could not be sustained. But the
Library journal is in its eighth volume, and
has done much good, and the A.L. A.’s influence
and usefulness are growing each year. I have
not the slightest doubt that the experience will
be repeated with the Library School. I recall
an incident at our first meeting in Philadelphia,
which amused me so much that I noted the
exact words. A leading librarian came up
with cordiality, and said, “ Well, Dewey, if you
wasn’t very good-natured you would kick me
for the way I threw cold water on this confer-
ence idea. Isn’t it a glorious success.?” And
to-day, as I look at the chief hydraulic factor
in this discussion, I can say of the episode in
1876, “ Thou art the man.”

For the unexpectedly cordial words and
promises of support so many of you have ex-
tended me during these meetings, excursions,
and social hours, thus early in the new enter-
prise, I am very grateful. They give me new
courage to work out the idea.

The majority report was then adopted, with
only one dissenting voice.

On motion of Mr. Bowker, seconded by
Mr. Dewey, the president was directed to
appoint a committee to take into consideration
during the year all projects and schemes for
the education of librarians, and to report in
detail at our next meeting.

OFFICERS.

Mr. J. N. Larned, of the nominating com

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mittee, reported in favor of the reelection of
the following officers as a nucleus for the execu-
tive committee : Justin Winsor, Harvard Uni-
versity; Melvil Dewey, Columbia College;
James L. Whitney, Boston Public Library; S:
S. Green, Worcester Free Library; C: A. Cut-
ter, Boston AthenjEum. Mr. Green suggested
that some western men be put on the com-
mittee; but the report was adopted, and the
gentlemen named duly elected.

SWEDISH LIBRARIES.

The President stated that for want of time
the paper on “ Two Swedish Libraries,” by
Miss Mary A. Browne, would be read by title,
and printed in the Proceedings. ( The ^aper
was subsequently lost in sending fro7n Biiffalo
to Boston ta be printed.)

STATE LIBRARIES.

Mr. Guy A. Brown, of the State Library,
Nebraska, read his paper on “ State Libraries,
their Management and Support.”

(Seep. 245.)

Mr. Brown prefaced his paper by saying that
looking at the proceedings of the Association in
the past, as reported in the columns of the
Library journal., and seeing so much learning
there displayed, it had seemed to him as if it
would take considerable courage for western
people to appear before the Association, and
somewhat of the spirit of a Spartan hero to
address its members upon any subject; but
since arriving here, with other representatives
from Nebraska, and hearing some one gravely
inquiring about the locality of the “ State of
Omaha,” and how many days’ stage journey it
took to come from there ; and reflecting also
upon the fact that within the last three months
the State library at Lincoln had received from
one of the learned departments at Washington
a package addressed “ Territorial Library,
Omaha, Nebraska Territory,” he had changed
his opinion. And now that Mr. Cutter had
kindly placed this State as “ 93,” in his sys-
tem, he thought they were no more than ordi-
nary mortals with similar hobbies, foibles, and
what not, with a disposition to talk around a
point and not at it, and that in the library

world, and among librarians, human nature
was the same as elsewhere.*

Mr. C: C. Soule, of Boston. — This Associ-
ation of earnest workers has had an admirable
effect upon the library methods of America,
but there is a vast amount of work yet to
do. There is one class of large libraries —
perhaps the most important in the United
States — upon which your influence has hardly
been felt, that is, the State libraries. Every
State and territory has at least one library, often
two or three. Sums amounting to over a hun-
dred thousand dollars are spent annually in
buying books for them. In many States there
are practically no other libraries. Although
their law departments are usually prominent,
they include all classes of books. They have
a large field of usefulness. In the older States,
where libraries abound, they should be store-
houses of information for the judicial, legislative,
and executive branches of the government. In
new communities, and in the States where there
are few libraries, they might furnish, also, the
means of developing scholarship, and science,
and literature. Everywhere they should be
reservoirs of local literature and local history,
both in its materials and its results. Their
accumulations of books should be thoroughly
classified and catalogued. Their purchases
should be intellig.ent and systematic. Their
librarians should be men of ability, trained or
apt to the duties of their position, competent
to guide the growth of their libraries wisely,
and to bring them into useful relations with the
other libraries of the State.

Such should be the State library and the
State librarian. What are they in reality.?
As a rule, the libraries are more or less com-
plete collections of law-books, vast useless
stacks of public documents, and fragmentary
scraps of general literature. There is often
lack of system in arrangement, lack of
thoroughness in cataloguing, lack of in-
telligence in utilizing the books. The
librarians are either burdened with the duties
of other offices, which they hold at the same
time, or they are public pensioners, who are

1 Note by Mr. Brown, made at Lincoln, Oct. 23, 1883.
— “ To the members of the A. L. A. : Pity me! I have
just received a note from Mr. Cutter, in which he says, ‘ I
sent you a letter yesterday, and very appropriately (con-
sidering- how you began your naper) addressed it to
Omaha.' ”

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good custodians and good exhibitors of the
books, but nothing more. The few exceptions
— those State librarians who bring to their
duties fidelity, energy, and brains — know better
than any one else the lack of interest among
many of their brethren in other States. There
are enough good librarians, in these positions,
if they could be brought together for conference
and methodical work, to leaven the whole body.
There is good material, moreover, among the
State librarians, who are now librarians merely
in name, being without the influence of exam-
ple or the stimulus of professional feeling.
They only need quickening. Some one must
do missionary work among them. Cannot this
Association undertake it.? Can we not send out
a special invitation next year to the State libra-
rians.? If the subjects that interest them are
in part different from those which interest town
and city and college libraries, cannot some plan
of section work be devised, which would assign
specialties to groups, and matters of general
interest to meetings of the whole Association.?

There is a field here for telling work. By
such an effort you may reach, year by year, a
widening circle of State librarians. Starting
with those who are already doing good work,
you can awaken, through the whole body,
sympathy with the system and enthusiasm
which are ennobling your qccupation into one
of the learned professions. Your interest may
suggest to Governors and Legislatures the need
of selecting librarians as carefully as they select
judges. You may help to make the State
libraries centres of intelligence and educa-

tion in new and unliterary communities. You
can try to bring these great libraries into some
useful relation with each other, and with the
libraries around them, and can especially aid
them in collecting and arranging the bulky raw
material of American history.

With these worthy ends in view, I would
urge that an effort be made to bring the State
librarians to future meetings of this Associa-
tion.

FINAL PAPERS.

Mr. R. R. Bowker read his paper on the
work of the librarian of the 19th century, and
what the librarian of the 20th century will have
to do, first read by him at Cambridge, England.

{^See f. 247.)

Mr. Edmands explained, by the aid of the
black-board, the system of numbering congres-
sional documents in his library.

(^See 250.)

Mr. Foster read his report on aids to read-
ers.

(5^^/. 233.)

Mr. Cutter. — I desired to call upon Mr.
Soldan to give some statem.ent as to his “ Pur-
chasing Union' but there is not time.^ The
Cooperation Committee ^ill consider it, and
report in the Library journal.

Mr. Dewey gave, by request, a five-minute
description of the new Columbia College library
buildings.

The Association adjourned sine die at 12
o’clock.

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APPENDIX I. — THE WORK AT GLOVERSVILLE.

BY A. L. PECK, LIBRARIAN.

IN compliance with the request of the A. L. A.,
at its conference held in Buffalo, N.Y.,
August 14-17, 1883, I submit herewith a
brief account of the manner in which the Levi
Parsons Library of Gloversville and Kingston,
N.Y., endeavors to fill its mission.

This institution opened on January 3, 1881,
with 3,980 volumes, and contains at present
5>594-

The public is invited to the free reading-
room by placards placed in prominent places,
shops, and hotels.

Monthly reports are published in the village
papers, showing the amount and character of
the reading.

An annual discourse on reading and the use
of libraries is given at the different churches
by the pastors.

Special privilege cards, entitling the holder
to more than the usual number of books, are
issued to professional readers.

Library cards at reduced rates are offered to
clubs, and the formation of library clubs is
solicited in churches and factories.

Employers are invited to aid such clubs by
subscribing for cards for their employes.

And the library endeavors to aid the public
schools in the following manner: —

In primary departments : Teachers read to
their scholars such librarj^ books as are adapted
to their ages.

In intermediate departments : A weekly
lesson is given on topics independent of
school-work. These topics are selected by
the teacher and worked up in the library by
the scholars.

The teachers bring to school those reference
and other books which furnish the desired in-
formation, and show how index, dictionary, and
cyclopaedia are used.

Brief reports on books read by the scholars

are required in place of compositions. The
books for these reports are selected or approved
by the teacher or the librarian.

In the grammar and high school : Pupils are
required to give, once a week, the information
on the subject in hand gained at the library.

Each term, at least one composition, con-
taining a brief synopsis of a book read during
that time, is written, and the pupils are en-
couraged to express an opinion with regard to
the style and character of the book.

In the study of English and American litera-
ture the student is brought into direct contact
with the works of the author, and is required
to read selections and to memorize extracts
from the best writers ; the class having free ac-
cess through its teacher to the books of the
library.

A monthly lesson on current events is given,
and the scholars are required to render an
account of their reading of newspapers and
periodicals.

The librarian visits each department of the
school at least once a month, talks to the
scholars on a topic of their own selection, calls
their attention to those books in which addi-
tional interesting information may be found,
and invites the scholars to frequent the reading-
room and library.

Classes of children visit the library accom-
panied by their teacher, to see valuable illus-
trated books and engravings. At these visits
a topic is suggested by the teacher, and the
manner in which information on the subject
may be gained from books contained in the
library is shown and explained by the librarian,
with especial attention to the proper use of
reference-books and catalogues.

The following figures taken from the annual
and monthly reports of the library will show
some of the results ; —

No. of Read-
ers.

No. of Refer-
ence-books
consulted.

History and
Biography.

Travel and
Adventure.

Prose, Fic-
tion, and
Juvenile.

Total No. of
Books de-
livered.

Jan. 3, 18S1, to June 15, 1881 .

641

742

727

7,227

10,653

June 16, 1881, to June 15, 1S82 .

664

lOI

1,013

938

12,680

17,199 ,

June 16, 1883, to June 15, 1883 .

1,051

225

1,260

1,164

13,231

17,206

Month of October, 18S3 • • • •

1,120

123

109

127

1,240

1,907

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APPENDIX II.— COMPENDIOUS CATALOGUING-RULES FOR THE
AUTHOR-CATALOGUE OF THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY.'

TITLE.

1. The title is to be an exact transcript from
the title-page, not amended, translated, or in
any way altered, except that mottoes, repeti-
tions, and matter of any kind not essential, may
be omitted — omissions to be indicated by a
group of three dots (. . .); but the name of
an author or editor, if it occur on the title-page
in the same form as, in the heading, may be
omitted if no ambiguity be occasioned hereby;
and forenames which are given in full in the
heading may be represented by initials in the
entry of the title. The typography and
punctuation of the title need not be strictly
adhered to. All anonymous works of which
the author is known are to have the abbrevia-
tion “ anon.” added in square brackets.

2. The titles of works especially valuable for
antiquity or rarity may be given in full, with
all practicable exactness.

3. In English, initial capitals are to be given
to proper names of persons and personifica-
tions, places, societies, noted events, and
periods ; to adjectives and other words derived
from proper names when they have a direct
reference to the person, place, etc., from which
they are derived; and to the first word of
every quoted title of a work.

4. In other languages the use of capitals is
to follow the local practice.

5. In doubtful cases capitals are to be avoided.

VOLUMES, PLACE, DATE, SIZE, ETC.

6. Other particulars are to be given after the
title, in the following order : —

(1) The edition as specified on the title-page.

(2) The number of volumes, if more than

one.

(3) The place of publication — followed by

the place of printing, when different
from that of publication — in brackets.
In the case of books of the 15th and
i6th centuries, or of special value or
rarity, the names of the publisher and
printer are to be added after the above
entries, respectively.

(4) The date as given on the title-page, in

Arabic figures.

LANGUAGE OF TITLE AND IMPRINT.

7. Title and imprint entries are to be as far
as possible in the language of the title, but ad-
ditions are to be in English, enclosed in
brackets.

CONTENTS AND NOTES.

8. Contents of volumes are to be given when
expedient.

9. Notes, explanatory or illustrative, or de-
scriptive of bibliographical and other peculiari-
ties, including imperfections, are to be added
when necessary.

HEADINGS AND CROSS-REFERENCES.

Books are to be entered : —

10. Under the surnames of authors, when
stated on the title-page or otherwise certainly
known, followed by the forename and other
necessary prefixes in round brackets.

11. When only the initials or pseudonym of
an author occur in the book, it is also to be re-
garded for the purpose of headings as anony-
mous ; and a cross-reference is to be made from
the initials or pseudonym to the first heading,
the last initial being placed first, followed by
the others in round brackets.

12. Under the pseudonyms of the writers,
unless the book be already entered under two
headings, in which case a cross-reference is to
be made from the pseudonym to the first head-
ing.

13. Under the names of editors of collec-
tions, and under the catch-titles of such collec-
tions ; the parts are to be at the same time
sufficiently catalogued under their own head-
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15. Under the chief word or words of the
titles of periodicals.

16. Under the chief subject- word or words of
the titles of anonymous works, with a cross-

1 As these rules have never been printed in this country,
they are given here as an appendix to the report of the
Cooperation Committee. It may be noted that some of
the directions belong to the subject rather than the author
or title catalogue.

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reference, where advisable, from any other
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a writer occur in a work, but not on the title-
page, the work is also to be regarded for the
purpose of heatlings as anonymous.

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word Bible ; editions of parts of the Bible com-
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(New), or lesser divisions, such as Pentateuch^
Historical books^ Hagiograflia, Prophets,
Gospels, Paul the apostle, Epistles (^General).

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I and U, with such cross-references as may be
necessary. 1

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names of persons.

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literated.

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as if written out in full, ae, oe, ue.

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Roman; but Roman figures may be used after
the names of ruling princes and popes, or to
designate the number of a volume or chapter

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in Arabic figures.

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fol. (folio) ; foil, (folios, followed, following) ;
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Oct, 18S2.

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J. S. Billings, U.S. Surgeon General’s Office.
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Guy A. Brown, Lincoln (Neb.) State L.

Martha A. Bullard, Auburn (N.Y.) Seymour L.
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N.Y.

H: J. Carr, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Mellen Chamberlain, Boston (Mass.) P.L.

F. W. Christern, N.Y. , bookseller.

Emily A. Clark, 217 Eagle st, Buffalo, N.Y.
Emery Cleaves, with Lockwood, Brooks, &
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Mass.

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Miss Sarah F. Earle, Asst., Worcester (Mass.)
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J: Edmands, Mercantile L., Philadelphia, Pa.
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John Hallam, Chairman, Toronto P.L.

Mary C. Harbaugh, Assistant Ln., State L.,
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G. W: Harris, Asst., Cornell University L.,
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Frank P. Hill, Lowell (Mass.) City L.

W. J. Hills, Bridgeport (Conn.) P.L.

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W. Hutchinson, Dominion L., Ottawa, Can.
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G. N. Stowits, Buffalo, N.Y.

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TAe Publishers' IPeekly.

THE AMERICAN BOOK-TRADE JOURNAL.

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320 THE LIBRARY JOURNAL.

CLASSIFICATION OF THEOLOGY.

It is difficult, in the absence of well-defined
principles of classification, to criticise the numer-
ous schemes which have been made public, in
this country, during the last few years. Many,
by their professedly utilitarian character, defy
criticism, which would apply to scientific work.
Where the author can reply that his system is
the best practical one for his library, however
much one may doubt it as a matter of fact, there
is nothing farther to be said. Several, however,
are of a more scientific character, and less local
in color. It is the treatment of theology in
these which has suggested this article.

It will be agreed that a scientific system
should embody that which may fairly be con-
sidered as already worked out, with whatever
contributions the author may be able to make
toward an ultimate system. The bibliographer
is even less free than the theoretical classifier to
reject, for the sake of some a prio'>i principle,
or local utility, what is generally agreed on as
the proper sequence and division of classes.
His object is to make accessible the apparatus
of each subject to the user. To this end he
must embody what is agreed upon and well
known, by such users, unless he has something
to offer which he considers to have some inher-
ent, rather than casual or artificial advantage.
That is, if an established order and relation of
study or investigation is to be rejected, it should
be made evident that there is substituted some-
thing which is more worthy to become uni-
versal.

When Brunet adopted the system of Martin,
on the ground of its universality and its prac-
tical adaptation to libraries, he was right in princi-
ple, and perhaps in fact. When, in 1865, he re-
tained this system in its treatment of theology,
he was wrong in thinking it either universal or
the most practical. A better, if not an ultimate,
system for the classification of theology had
already gained a wide acceptance, and this, to-
day, can fairly claim universality, at least for its
leading features.

Since the beginning of the i8th (and we may
almost say the i6th) century, and especially in
Germany, there has been a continual activity in
the definition and classification of the different
branches of theological science. It has been
done largely with reference to the students of
theology in the universities, and has thus been
carried on with an eminently practical as well as
scientific purpose. It has finally taken the form
and name of the modern “ Theological Ency-
clopaedia.”

After a century of tentative efforts, in which
great progress was made in definition, in the
fixing of terms, and some little in classification,
this last question was reduced to a direct issue be-
tween the principle involved in the threefold phil-
osophical system of Schleiermacher (1811), and
that of the fourfold, exegetico-historical system of
Hagenbach (Encyklopadie, Lpz., 1832, 10. Aufl.
1880). The former divides : (i) Speculative, (2)
Historical, (3) Practical. The latter has : (i)

Exegetical, (2) Historical, (3) Systematic, (4)
Practical. The present prevailing fourfold idea
originated with Planck (1794), and was adopted,
with greater or less variation, by many before
Hagenbach, but it was fixed by his work, and
has become inseparably connected with his
name. With few exceptions, the modern sys-
tems can be analyzed into these two.

For some years the contest continued, the
Roman Catholic theologians inclining slightly
to the threefold, and the Protestants to the
fourfold, Hagenbach’s text-book and idea rapid-
ly gaining ground, until it is almost universal.

J. F. Rabiger (Zur theol, Encykl., Breslau,
1882, p. 73) considers “that the whole historical
development of theology leads to the fourfold di-
vision of the theological system,” but thinks we
cannot hope for unanimity in the sequence of
these divisions, except as the strict historical
principle gains prevalence. The latest systems
on the threefold basis (Hofmann, 1879; Rothe,
1881 ; and Grimm, in Zschr. f. wiss. Theol.,
1882, p. i), unite two or more of the four di-
visions in one, yet retain the discrimination, so
that the question becomes, as applied to the ar-
rangement of books, merely one of sequence.
Here Grimm, who is the latest and most logical,
coincides with the order of the fourfold division,
which is agreed by the later Encyclopaedists
(Rabiger, 1880 ; Hagenbach, rev. Kautzch, 1880 ;
Zockler, 1883) to be : Exegetical, Historical,
Systematic, and Practical. Apart, then, from
the mere question of universal prevalence, there
is essential external harmony among the spe-
cialists.

If we leave the theory and examine as to the
practical adoption of the one or the other, we
find the fourfold division everywhere in use.
Hagenbach is used in almost all the universi-
ties. In the selection of the ” gangbarste Lehr-
biichern ” for the “ Examinatorium ii. d. theol.
Disciplinen, Lpz., 1878-80,” his is the encyclo-
paedia chosen. Kurtz accepts the order and
practically the names of the divisions in his
Church History. Van Oosterzee (Chr. Dog-
matics, N. Y., Scribner, p. 9), C. F.Schmid (N. T.
Theol., Edinb., Clark, 1870, p. i, 2), and Dor-
ner (Glaubenslehre, B. i, s. 6-8), evidently ac-
cept both order and division. Franck (Syst. d.
Christ. Gewissh., i, s. 29) unites the first two,
but has the same order. It is the division fol-
lowed in Hinrich’s ” Verzeichniss ” and ‘‘ Re-
pertorium,” in the Bibliotheca Theologica (hrsg.
V. Ruprecht, Getting.), and modified, more or
less, according to the needs of the case, by almost
all the antiquarian booksellers ; cf. Schneider,
Merkel, Otto, Kirchhof and Weigand, Harrasso-
witz. Beck, and Western! ann.

In the usage of American theologians we find
an equal harmony, where there is any recogni-
tion at all of encyclopjedic treatment. The
single direct treatise on the subject which we
have (McClintock, ed. Short), Hurst (Bibliothe-
ca Theologica, 1883), Prof. Briggs (Presb. R.
V. 3, 1882, p. 522), accept the fourfold division
in full, as do the editors of the Presbyterian
review, in their ” Reviews of theological lit-

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erature,” the officers of the Hartford Theo-
logical Seminary, in their published program
of studies (cf. Catalogue, 1S82-83, p, 14), the
Centenary Biblical Institute of Baltimore (Cata-
logue, p. 10), and the Boston University (Cata-
logue p. 87, ^8). Prof. A. A. Hodge (Outlines
of Theol., p. 17), omitting Historical Theology
and re-defining the others, furnishes a slight
variation from the current of opinion, but one
not likely to find acceptance, unless with the
speculative theologian, and which would prob-
ably be rejected now by the author himself.

The application of the fourfold idea to the
arrangement of libraries is exemplified in at
least three of our theological seminaries — Ando-
ver, Union, and Hartford — and probably in
many more. In two at least (Union and Hart-
ford), the idea is carried out to a considerable
degree of refinement.

This division, then, answers the test of uni-
versal acceptance. The trained theologian and
the general reader alike find themselves at
home in a library arranged according to this
system. It would seem, therefore, as if its
use should be insisted on. If, however, one
should choose to make these the divisions of
“Revealed Theology” and prefix a class of
‘‘Natural Theology,” there would be little ob-
jection. For most it would, probably, be safer
not to discriminate here.

The arrangement of the sub-classes is less
settled than that of the main divisions, though
many points have been worked out to a point
of common acceptance. We may “say, for ex-
ample, that the divisions of Systematic Theology
are ; (i) Apologetics, (2) Dogmatics, (3) Ethics,
(4) Polemics, (5) Irenics.

In the main, it is agreed under which of the
main divisions a given subject should come,
though there are some exceptions, as in the case
of “ Biblical Theology,” which Prof. Briggs and
others place in Exegetical, while it more prop-
erly belongs under Historical Theology. I'he
number of such disputed points is, however,
limited.

Besides the arrangement of subjects, the mod-
ern science of “Theological Encyclopaedia” has
done valuable services in defining the nature and
contents of the various subjects and fixing a
commonly recognized name to them. Hfere,
perhaps, we can profit as much as anywhere.
Apologetics and Homiletics are terms already
in familiar general use. Such terms as Dog-
matics, Ethics, Catechetics, Liturgies, Canonics,
Hermeneutics. Pastoral Theology, Biblical Phil-
ology, Biblical Archaeology, etc., etc., ought
equally to be employed.

The fault of American classifiers, so far as
they show traces of encyclopaedic influence,
seems to have been in drawing from the systems
of the booksellers, adapted rather for the sale of
their particular stock than for general investiga-
tion, in preference to the more careful and con-
sistent systems. There are traces of the influ-
ence in almost all the later American systems,
but they are so disarranged, or interspersed
with unscientific terminology, as to tantalize the

student, who fancies he sees how easily their
painstaking efforts might have been made more
practical for his use, and for the establishment
of a uniform usage in this country.

Every librarian cannot go into an exhaustive
study of the literature of the classification of
every subject. This must be left to specialists,
while he contents himself with applying the best
results. It is not meant that the theological
specialists have reached the end of their labors.
Great progress is hoped for still. They have,
however, done a great deal already, and their
results can profitably be embodied. Of course,
the more extensively one can study the literature
of the subject, the belter, but those whose time
and opportunities are limited will not be far out
of the way in taking Hagenbach (10. Aufl. 1880),
at least as the basis of their system. McClin-
tock’s methodology will afford many hints, but
should hardly be followed implicitly.

E. C. Richardson.

Hitrarfi iSconomt) antt

Testimonials in favor of the candidature of Mr.
Graeme Mercer Adam, for the position of
Librarian of the Free Public Library, Toronto.
Toronto, March, 1883. 15 p. O.

Barcier, V. Monographic historique de la
bibliotheque de Chambery. Chambery, Per-
rain, 1883. 170 p. 8^

Birmingham P. L. Report of the sub-com-
mittee. [Birmingham, 1883.] 24 p. O.

Contains a very full statement of the daily,
weekly, and monthly routine duties of each mem-
ber of the staff.

Books as a decoration. (In Builder, Aug. 25,
p. 248.) 2 col.

Newburyport (Mass.) P. L. Dedicatory ex-
ercises of the Simpson Annex, Apr. 28, 1882.
N., 1882. 53+[i]p-0.

Mr. Michael H. Simpson gave $18,500, with
which, and other gifts amounting to $4006, an
addition was made to the library building.

Nolhac, P: de. La bibliotheque d’un humaniste
au i6e siecle. Rome, 1883. 39 p. 8°.

From the Mem. d’archeol. pub. par I’Ecole
Fran5aise de Rome.

Penn, Arthur (pseud, for J. Brander Matthews).
The home library. N. Y., Appleton, 1883.
154 p. D. (Appletons’ Home books, no. ii.) il.
60 c.

Contents : — A plea for the best books ; On the
buying and owning of books ; On reading ; On
fiction (with a list of a hundred best novels) ; On
the library and its furniture ; On bookbinding ;
On the making of scrap-books ; On diaries and
family records ; On the lending and marking of

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books ; Hints here and there. Appendix con-
tains a list of authors whose works should be
found in the home library, based upon Leypoldt’s
“ Books of all lime.”

Riiind, J. and J. R., architects. Brander

Library, Hunlly, Scotland. Photo lith. (In

Builder, Sept, i, 1883.

Cornell University Library was described by
Mr. C; A. Nelson (signing N. A. B.) in the
Evg. Post, N. Y., Sept. 13.

Prof. Jevons’ Rationale of free public libraries,
originally published in the Contemporary, March,
1881, and reprinted in the Eclectic, is included
(pp. 28-52) in his “ Methods of social reform,”
L. and N. Y., Macmillan, 1873, 8°.

Abstracts and extracts.

Providence P. L. (Added 1581, circulation
8075 in library, 82,519 at home.) ” Surpassed in
size by the public libraries of 13 New England
cities and towns smaller than itself.” ” A pub-
lic library of 21,000 in a population of 116,000 is a
singular anomaly.”

“ The readers have been divided in about the
usual proportions between those who use the
library for recreation simply and those who con-
sult it for specific matter of value in connection
with lines of study or reading. So long as the
library is constantly receiving a mass of new
readers who naturally begin with fiction and is
inadequately provided with the means of helping
them to higher reading, the percentage of fiction
read will not be materially reduced. But the belief
seems to be well founded, as is indicated in more
than one of the letters from citizens printed in
the appendix, that the work of the library is it-
self ‘ developing a taste for reading that can but
be beneficial.’ To quote from another, ‘ There is
no considerable class of our people who are not
to-day directly benefited by it. The professional
men and scholars of our city,merchanis and manu-
facturers, the large class of mechanics employed
in establishments requiringskilled labor,theyoung
people of both sexes, especially thechildren in
our schools, are largely benefited already.’

” Several points are made very clear by these
letters, some of them written in answer to in-
quiries of the librarian, though by no means all.
First, that almost ‘ any library’ open to the pub-
lic can hardly fail to become a valued, and al-
most an essential feature of ‘ every progressive
community.’ Second, that this library has so
fully attained the measure of usefulness possible
within its limited resources that its service is
regarded as ‘ inestimable,’ and that, as com-
pared with other libraries, it is regarded as pre-
eminently successful in ‘ its plan, its spirit, and
its aim.’ Third, that the deficiencies and in-
adequacy of its resources are sensibly felt by
these several classes of readers ; that the jour
nalist does not find ‘ all that one would have a
right to expect to find in such a public library ;’
that the director of skilled workmen feels the
lack of that which will serve the purposes of
‘ apprentices in our industrial establishments ;’
that the intelligent teacher finds with regret that

the investigations of the student are checked ‘ by
the limitations of the library.’ Fourth, that the
possibility of curtailing or withdrawing the ben-
efits of the library would not be willingly con-
sented to ; that ‘ it would be a real calamity
were the library abandoned ;’ that the ‘ loss could
not be made good by the substitution of any
other agencies ;’ and that ‘ to abolish the library
would (in the case of schools) be to sever an im-
portant auxiliary in their growth;’ that the ‘ ef-
ficency’ of the schools ‘ would be lessened, their
progress retarded, their possibilities would never
be realized ;’ that it is ‘just as indispensable to the
mental health of a city as are its public parks,
water supply, and sewers to its physical health. ’ ’ ’

Springfield (Mass.) P. L. (Added 1345 ; total
47,045 ; issue 44.197.) ‘‘ J: B. Mulloy, formerly
of this city, has placed on deposit in the Library,
a large collection of rare and curious old books,
principally classical and theological, which were
purchased in Peru, and which probably belonged
to some old Spanish monastery.”

ISibliografg.

Billings, J: S. Medical bibliography ; repr.
fr. the Trans, of the Med. and Chirurg. Fac.
of Md., 1883. Balt., 1883. 23 p. O.

Contains advice to the compilers of medical
bibliografies which might profitably be pondered
by any bibliografer.

Campbell, C: A. Bibliography of Major An-
dre. (In Magazine of Amer. hist., Jan. 1882,
p. 61-72.)

La bibliographie des ecrits dont Henri v. [le
comte de Chambord] a ete I’objet. (Pages
260-276 of Polybiblion, Sept. 1883.)

From 1820 to 1839. To be continued.

A bibliography of Chaucer. (Pages 288-290
of Literary world, Sept. 8.)

Clouard, M. Bibliographie des oeuvres d’Al-
fred de Musset et des ouvrages, gravures, et
vignettes qui s’y rapportent. Paris, Rouquette,
1883. 24-1-100 p. 8°. (320 copies.)

Dahlmann, F. C. Quellenkunde zur deutschen
Geschichte. 5. Aufl. Neu zusammengestellt
von G. Waitz. 3. Aufl. Got., Dietrich, 1883.
20-1-341 p. 8*^. 6 m.

The isted., pub. more than 50 years ago, con-
tained 617 nos. ; the first ed. by Waitz 2812 nos. ;
the present ed., 3753.

Hardy, A. S. Courses of reading on special
subjects; Mathematics. (In The critic, July
28, Aug. II.)

Narducci, Enrico. Saggio di bibliografia degli
obelischi. (In II Buonarroti, ser. 3, v. i, p,

74-790

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Riccardi, Doit. Paolo. Saggio di un catalogo
bibliog, antropologico italiano. Modena, 1883.
176 p. 8". 2.50 lire.

Riviere, E., S.J. Essai de bibliog. malgache
ou catal. des ouvrages Merits sur Madagascar

011 en langue mad6casse. (In Polybiblioti, v. 18,
p. 159-163.)

Rogge, H. C. Bibliog. Grotiana, in qua omnes
editiones et versiones. [Pars i.] Hag. Com.,
Nijhoff, 1883. 10+76 p. 8®. 2.50 fr.

Arranged by subject, subarranged chronologi-
cally.

ScARTAZZiNi, G. A. Dante in Germania. Parte
2 : Bibliog. dantesca alemanna alfabetica e
sistematica. Milano, Hoepli, 1883. 360 p. 8°.

12 lire.

S. has also issued a 16° “ Dante” (nos. 42, 43
of the Manuali Hoepli), of which 16 p. contain
Letteratura biografica, 35 p. are Cenni biblio-
grafici.

Shepherd, R. H. The bibliography of Swin-
burne ; a bibliog. list in chronol. order of the
published verse and prose of Algernon C:
Swinburne (1857-83). London, G: Redway,
1883. 40 p. 8'^. 6s. (Privately printed.)

151 titles, from Dec. 1857 to 1883.

Prof. Alexander Graham Bell has devoted a
great deal of time recently to the preparation of
a bibliografy of electricity, with a view to
facilitate the labors of scientific investigators.
He has gathered at his house in Washington the
titles of 40,000 books, pamflets, and short
articles on electricity.

Mr. J. P. Edmond, a learned bookbinder of
Aberdeen, is making a bibliografy of the works
issued in that city.

Dr. Robert Fletcher adds a bibliografy to his
” Human proportion in art and anthropometry,”
Cambridge, Mass., Moses King, 1883, 37 p.
O. 50c.

H. H. Prince Ibrahim Hilmy, brother of the
Khedive, is printing a bibliografy of printed
books, manuscripts, periodical literature, etc.,
relating to the antiquities, history, and political
and social life of Egypt, from the earliest times
to the present date. The work will be extensive,
and a certain number of copies will be set apart
for public libraries and private persons.

The Index Society has undertaken a Bibliog-
rafy and guide to educational literature.

Gustav May is to publish a bibliografy of the
electric sciences in Hartleben’s Electrische Biblio-
thek, Vienna.

MM. Gabriel Monod and Em. Molinier are
preparing a bibliografy of the sources of French
history,

Catalogs.

Indianapolis P. L, Catalogue. Part i ; A-E.
Ind.,1883. 42+24 p. O.

Very carefully made by Mr. A. Tyler.
Narducci. [A report in Italian on the utility
of a general catalogue of printed books in all
Italian libraries.]

See Polybiblion, Oct. 1883, p. 380-81.

Peabody Institute, Balt. Catalogue of the
library. Part i ; A-C. Balt., 1883. 6 + [2]+
868 p. 1. O.

See the notice of this in Mr. Noyes’ annual
report.

Reform Club. Catalogue of the library.

The existing building was opened in 1841, and
in November of that year a special committee
was appointed to superintend the formation of a
club library. The advice of the librarian of the
House of Commons and of Mr. Panizzi was
obtained ; and Mr. Francis Place, an energetic
reformer in Westminster, drew up a plan, ap-
proved by Panizzi, and afterward adopted, for
indexing its parliamentary papers. Books and
pamphlets were readily given by the members,
and subscriptions of from to ^100 were paid
with alacrity. Alphabetical and subject-cata-
logues in ms., on a system recommended by
Panizzi, have been kept in the library for many
years, but the present is the first printed Cata-
logue of its contents. The description of the
books occupies over 550 pages ; and there are,
in addition, two short lists of the subjects of the
pamphlets which are the property of the library,
and of the names of their authors. The volume
concludes with a classified index of forty pages.
The noble room overlooking the gardens at the
back of Pall Mall, in which most of the volumes
are housed, is familiar by sight to London vis-
itors with friends in the clubland of Liberalism.
The collection contains the best works of refer-
ence, a comprehensive selection of British topo-
graphical books, and a large number of volumes
in foreign languages. A handsome grant for
the purchase of new works is voted from the
corporate funds every year, and many of the
members readily respond to the appeal of the
committee for presents. — Acad., Sept. 8.

U. S. Patent Office. Catalogue of additions
to the library, May i, 1878-May i, 1883 ; by
[Weston Flint]. Wash., 1883. 2 I.+452 p. O.
For the main catalog see Lib. jnl., 3 ; 346.

U. S. Surgeon-General’s Office. Catalogue
of the library. Vol. 4 : E-Fizes. Wash.,
1883. 3+12+1033 p. 1. O.

4802 author titles (for 1926 v. and 3885 pm.) ;
12,361 subject titles, 48,977 references to period-
icals.

The Cornell Univ. “ Library ” for July con-
tains References for the history of Western N. Y.
and a continuation of Works on mathematics.

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British Museum. The first volume of the
Catalogue of English books issued before the
year 1640 has been printed, and the whole work,
it is believ^ed, will be completed during the cur-
rent year.

The Y. M. C. A. of Berwick, Pa., A, G.
Kimberley, librarian, has begun the issue in a
Berwick newspaper of a bulletin intended to give
lists of books on current topics, as Tonquin,
Volcanoes, Java, Ireland, like Mr. Foster’s
Monthly lists, but less elaborate.

Full Names.

S: Moore Shute (A manual of Anglo-Saxon
for beginners) ; L: Adam Kengla (Contributions
to the archaeology of the District of Columbia) ;
C: Bunker Dahlgren (Historic mines of Mex-
ico) ; W: H: Babcock (Lord Stirling’s stand);
M. Smith Lockwood (Hand-book of ceramic
art) ; D: Montgomery Nesbit (Silos and ensi-
lage).-D. H.

Consul Willshire Butterfield (Washington-
Crawford letters) ; Mrs. C; Heaton, born Mary
Margaret Keymer (Concise history of music,
etc.).— T. H. W.

S; Tracy Browne (First cruise of the Mon-
tauk) ; P: Stephen Chase (Organization and
service of battery F) ; C: Penrose Keith (The
provincial councillors of Pennsylvania) ; Alfred
Thayer Mahan (The Gulf and inland waters) ; C:
H. Parkhurst (Incidents of service with the nth
regiment Rhode Island volunteers) ; Giles Bad-
ger Stebbins (The American protectionist’s
manual) ; Edwin Munroe Bacon (King’s diction-
ary of Boston) ; S. Whitaker Pennypacker
(Historical and biographical sketches) ; Francis
Marion Crawford (Mr. Isaacs) ; Joshua Me-
lancthon Addeman (Reminiscences of two years
with the colored troops) ; C: Greene Bush (Our
choir).

Indexes.

Academie Royale des Sciences des Lettres

ET DES Beaux-Arts de Belgique. Tables

gen^rales du Recueil des bulletins. 2e serie, t.

21-50, 1867-80. Brux., 1883. 380 p. 8®.

Brantome’s “ CEuvres completes, new ed.,
nth volume, edited for the Societe de I’Histoire
de France by M. Lud. Lalanne, consists of a
most elaborate and valuable “ Table des ma-
tieres” (pp. 395), the first which has ever been
compiled of Brantome’s works.

Mr. Griswold announces as in press an in-
dex to the Fevtie des Deux Afondes, beginning
with September, 1870. Should it meet with a
favorable reception, the volumes for 1848-70 will
subsequently be treated in the same way, as will
also the Revtte germanique and Revue contenipo-
raine.

The Index Society is the’subject of an article
by Mr. Ashbee in Le livre for July. He enumer-
ates the['_contents of the ii volumes published
since 1879.

^noiujms aut) pseiitjongms.

A collection of sundry ptiblications in relation to
the attack . . . upoti the . . . General Armstrong
. . . cojumanded by S. C. Reid ,.. at the island
of Fayal , . . N. Y. . . . 1833. On a fly-leaf of
one copy is this inscription, apparently in the
hand of the author, “Mrs. Reid respectfully
presents this her little collection to Mr. Taney —
1833 12'’, pp. 55. Sabin, 14391, gives number
of pages as 46, owing to a misprint on the last
page which he did not observe. “ Mrs. Reid’’ is
doubtless the wife of Capt. Reid, and “ Mr.
Taney ’’ the man who was afterward the chief
justice. — y. Edmands.

His second campaign, published anonymously
by J. R. Osgood & Co., is said to be by Maurice
Thompson, who is also reported to be the author
of “ The Tallahassee girl.’’

A. Stein. — As I have myself been led into er-
ror by reason of several German authors’ using
this pseudonym, it may be worth while to explain.

Stein,” pure and simple, is Margarethe
Wulff (the index of pseudonyms in Bornmiiller’s
Schriftsteller-Lexikon to the contrary), an
author of numerous books for children. “ Adam
Stein ” is Robert Springer, a prolific writer in
various classes of literature (see Bornmuller’s
Schriftsteller-Lexikon or Briimmer’s Deutsches
Dichter-Lexikon). Armin Stein” (Kayser’s
Biicher-Lexicon, 1871-76, prints it wrongly
“ Arnim” Stein) is H. Nietschmann, author,
among other things, of Deutsche Gcschichts- und
Lebensbilder, now in progress, one of which is
“ Count Erbach,” lately translated into English.
Kayser’s Biicher-Lexicon for 1859-64 and 1865-
70 includes under Adam Stein a number of
books really written by Margarethe Wulff, viz.,
all those published by Winckelmann u. Sohne in
Berlin. — K. A: Linderfelt.

C. G. David. — “A positivist primer. By C.
G. David. N. Y., 1871,” is by D. Goodm.an
Cro\y.—D. H.

Eusebius a S. Justo. — Querard had said that
this was the ps. of Fr. Lanovius vel Joan. Du-
rell. Tamizey de Larroque {Polybiblion, Sept.,
p. 282) shows that it was certainly Durel (not
Durell).

G: Taylor, ps. of J. A. Crowe (the coadjutor
of Cavalcaselle) in “ Antinous, a novel, London,
1883. “ — Ath.

Modjeska.—\n the Critic of Aug. 25 is a let-
ter in which Madame Modjeska disclaims any
connection with the poem recently published
over her name in the Denver Tribune.

W. H. S. — Who is the author (initials W. H.
S.) of “Gleanings, historical and literary ; sec-
ond series. London, Simpkin&^ Marshall, 1839.”
8°. p. xii, 395 ; xviii, xxi. The new catalogue
of printed books of the Brit. Mus. gives a title
entry of the ist series, but not the authot’s
name. — S. B. Noyes.

All of the following are taken from The Li-
brary of Cornell Univ., for July, to which they

November, ’83] T'HE LIBRARY JOURNAL. 325

were sent in response to the request for infor-
mation :

?iitcrature for tfje l^oung.

Abolition a sedition, by a northern man, is as-
cribed to Calvin Colton.

Bonaparte, a..poem, is entered in the Boston
Public Library under Dr. Keith, d. 1807. — A.
E. Hutchins.

Hints to my country^nen, by an American, is
put under Theodore Sedgwick (1781-1839) in
the Library of Congress catalogue on the au-
thority of Sabin. — T. Solberg. Allibone also
credits Sedgwick with the authorship of this
book.

Hu7nors of Eutopia I have ascertained to be
by Ezekiel Sanford. — S. B. Noyes.

Life of Elisha Tyson is by John S. Tyson, a
son of the subject. — J. W. M. Lee.

Ontiva was written by Gen. Henry Whiting,
as I was told a good while ago by Gen Cass,
who knew him well. — F. B. Pe^'kins. In the
Library of Congress catalogue Onlwa is as-
cribed to James Lawson, but no authority is
given ; Mr. Lawson’s biography would lead one
to believe him the author. --7’. Solberg. Sabin
and Allibone, however, consider Henry Whiting
the author.

O^nghial poems, by a citizen of Baltimore, is
by Richard H. Townsend. — J. W. M. Lee.

Abreg^ de V histoire de Pt^trarque (Vaucluse,
1879, 8^^) is by Theodore Pierre, the author of the
“ Guide de I’etranger la fontaine de V’’aucluse.”

Vaucluse et ses alentours, par un touriste, en
memoire du cinqueme centenaire de Petrarque
(Carpenlras, 1874), is ascribed to the Abbe J. M.
J. Constantin, the author of “ Histoire de la
Roque-sur-Pernes” (Carpentras, 1822).

G. Hipp is the pseudonym of Hippolyte Guille-
bert, the editor of “ Vaucluse ; sonnets inedits
de A. de Gagnaud, J. B. Gaut, G. Hipp . . .
recueilies a I’occasion de la fete de Petrarque.”
(Aix, 1874.)

For the information which follows acknowl-
edgment is due, says the “Library,” to M.
Barres, Director of the Bibliotheque et Musee
d’Inguimbert, Carpentras, Vaucluse, France :

Les aj7iours de PPrarque et de la belle Laui'e —
Histoire avigneuse (Avignon, 1874), signed A.
Ach (d’E.) is by A. Achard d’Entraigues.

The poem entitled Abj'/ge de la vie et des
amow's de PHrai'que et de Laure, par uii amateur
vauclusien, is attributed to M. de Vigne, secre-
taire de la chambre apostolique, by M. Requien.

Vaucluse, Petrarque, et Laure, par le cure actuel
de Vaucluse (1864), is by J. F. Andre, who is also
the author of several brochures published under
the pseudonym L. de Bondalon.

A. de Gagnaud “ Vaucluse : sonnets inedits,”
etc., is the pseudonym of L. de Berluc-Perussis.

Edited by Miss C. M. Hewins, Librarian of
Hartford Library Association.

Notes and suggestions, front various sources, on read^
ingand the best use of books, are to be included in this
department.

Abbott, Jacob. The Jonas books. Nexv issue.

N. Y., Crowell. 6 v. S. $6.

Abbott, Jacob. The Lucy books. New issue.

N. Y.. Crowell. 6 v. S. $6.

Abbott, Jacob. The Rollo books. New issue.
N. Y., Crowell. 14 v. S. $14.

Baldwin, J. Story of Roland. N. Y., C:
Scribner’s Sons. D. $2.

“ There is nothing in the old tales of history or romance
more exciting, more beautiful, or that appeals more to the
^heart and the imagination than that battle in the Valley of
‘Roncevaux. Mr. Baldwin has gathered the story of Roland
from the old poets. As they recast it and adapted it to the
tastes of their audiences, so he has done. His preface and
notes give the history of the tale.” — Boston Advertiser.

Buckland, Frank. Log-book of a fisherman
and zoologist. N. Y., Scribner & Welford.
D. $2.

Church, Rev. Alfred J. Heroes and kings :
stories from the Greek. N. Y., Sciibner &
Welford. S. 60 c.

Stories from Homer and Herodotus, with Apollonius
Rhodius’ version of the voyage of the “ Argo.”

Dixon, Rob. B. Fore and aft : a story of actual
sea life. Bost., Lee & Shepard. D. $1.25.

“ Realistic books of sailor life are not frequent in later
literature. The best of all these books was Dana’s ‘Two
years before the mast,’ and it had a permanent interest for
readers. Dr. Robert B. Dixon has contributed another vol-
ume to the same class of literature in ‘ Fore and aft,’ a story
of actual sea life, in which he records his reminiscences of
fourteen months spent upon a voj^age. The book is really
a novelty, and it will be interesting to compare it with Mr.
Dana’s work, as it illustrates the experience of another
generation.” — Boston Gazette.

Eggleston, E. Hoosier schoolboy. N. Y., C:
Scribner’s Sons. D. $1.

A picture of Western boy and girl life thirty or forty
years ago. As good as Eggleston’s books for older readers.

Hallock, C: The sportsman’s gazetteer and
general guide. Rev., enl., and brought down
to date by the author. N. Y., Orange Judd
Co. D. $3.

Heldmann, B. Mutiny on board the ship ” Le-
ander.” N. Y., Crowell. D. $1.50.

Samuels, E: A. Our Northern and Eastern
birds ; with a supplement from Holden’s
“American Fauna.” N. Y., Worthington,
il. O. $5.

Stoddard, W: O. Among the lakes. N. Y.,
C: Scribner’s Sons. D. $1.

“In ‘Among the lakes’ we have three hearty, healthy
boys — ‘ Piney ’ and ‘ Kyle ’ of the country, ‘ Bi ’ of the city,
alike in their boyhood, but with strongly marked individual
characters. There are no villains, no mysteries, and no
sudden acquisition of wealth. Mr. Stoddard never preaches,
never moralizes, and never sentimentalizes— three negative
qualities always praiseworthy in writers of juvenile books.
But the lessons of the book are none the less effective be-’
cause they are not obtruded on^ the reader’s attention.” —
Good literature.

Verne, J. Godfrey Morgan : a California mys-
tery. N. Y., C: Scribner’s Sons. D. $2.

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Notes and Suggestions.

Books for Children. — Books which children
can read should be put on the lower shelves of
the bookcase, so that the children may be
tempted to take them down for themselves and
have a try at their contents. These books within
a child’s reach need not be “ juvenile,” and, in-
deed, had better not be. They ought to be
travels and biographies, brightly written and full
of pictures. Especially should the file of Har-
per s magazine or The century stand where the
young ones may readily get at it. On the other
hand, books which the children should not
handle should not be within reach of their hands.
Lead not the little ones into temptation. Lock
up your Rabelais, and perhaps even your Field-
ing, where the little fingers may not happen on
them. Put the Elizabethan dramatists and the
comic writers of the Restoration where no Paul
r*ry> Jr., or his sister may chance to spy them.
Out of sight, out of mind. — '‘'‘Arthur Penn"
(y. Brander Mattheivs), Home library.

Girls’ Reading. — The same woman who is
conscientiously careful of the school compan-
ionship of her daughter of twelve or fourteen
years, is apparently criminally indifferent to the
character of her associates in the world of books.
She will watch w'hat boy carries her girl’s books
home from school, but forgets to look below the
cover of the new novel that same daughter has
brought back from the circulating library, stop-
ping there for it on the way home. . . . We
do not allow a baby to eat what will make it ill,
or the older child to play all the afternoon with
wet shoes on ; why encourage the girl of older
growth, but immature mind, to feed on trash ?
It need not be bad trash, though much of it is ;
it is sufficient that it is entirely unennobling,
sensational twaddle, which if grown women
chose to read, would possibly do them mentally
no more harm than an occasional indulgence to
repletion in some highly seasoned entree would
injure a sound stomach ; but for the girl whose
opinions are being formed, whose habits of
thought and literary judgment are being culti-
vated, whose mental and moral powers are
growing and crystallizing, it is absolutely de-
structive. . . . When we hear, as we have
heard. Sir Walter Scott pronounced dry and
stupid by the girl who has never read him, we
cannot but think the mother is at fault who per-
mits her child to select for herself from the
circulating library those stories of which the
titles attract her restless fancy. ... It is only
thoughtless neglect or criminal indifference
when mothers suffer their young daughters to
besmirch their fair minds with silly stories of
questionable experience, or to superinduce men-
tal indigestion by indulgence in literary food
unfit for youthful assimilation. — Hamper's Bazar.

Old South Lectures for Young People. —
The course consists of eight, by numerous well-
known scholars and writers, some of whom, like
Messrs. E. E. Hale and G. M. Towle, and Mrs.
A. M. Diaz, have already learned how to ap-

proach the youthful mind, and others, like
Messrs. John Fiske, G. Stanley Hall, and J. K.
Hosmer, will have no diflficulty in adapting
themselves to it. Mr. Edwin D. Mead began
with ” Governor Bradford and Governor Win-
throp, ” and other topics have been “ Plymouth,”
“Concord,” “The town meeting,” “Frank-
lin,” “ How to study American history,” “ The
year 1777,” and “ History in the Boston streets.”
Connected with this scheme is the printing of
“Old South leaflets,” as, with reference to the
opening lecture. Cotton Mather’s “ Life of Brad-
ford,” from the “ Magnalia.” — Nation.

Pendennis for Boys. — The New York Sun
having been asked to recommend a book for a
boy to “help to form his character and make a
man of him,” suggests Thackeray’s “Mr.
Brown’s letters to his nephew,” and adds “an
even better book for a boy is Thackeray’s ‘ Pen-
dennis.’ That is pretty sure to interest him unless
his taste in fiction has been altogethei corrupted
by the reading of vile and trashy novels and ‘ ju-
veniles.’ In the first place, he gets in Thackeray
a delightfully pure and charming literary style.
Its reading is of itself a good education in Eng-
lish. And another glorious book serves the
same purpose. We mean Oliver Goldsmith’s
‘ Vicar of Wakefield.’ You cannot go wrong in
giving that to a boy. It is sweet like new-mown
hay. In ‘Pendennis,’ too, along with a gentle
cynicism and a keen knowledge of the world,
there is a celebration of the best, the tenderest,
and the most sterling qualities of manhood,
which make it an admirable book for a lad whose
moral standards ought to be kept high, and who
should have set before him the noblest and the
most elevated ideals. A boy who reads ‘ Pen-
dennis ’ not merely as a task, but as a delight,
and who does not hurry over it as over a dime
novel, but studies it and thinks over it, will al-
ways keep the memory of the book vivid. He
will never forget its tone, and, alas ! he may
look in vain for a literary style so deliciously
pure in the current literature he reads during all
his life thereafter, no matter how long it may
be.”

Wholesome Fiction. — Unless a young read-
er has become thoroughly contaminated by long
soaking in the foul waters of low fiction, his
taste can be improved. The bad stories are
cheap and fiery. Give him good stories, as
cheap and better^ fuller of meat, stronger in
tone, and in the main as interesting, and there
is hope that in time he will give up the “ Pirate’s
Bride” for Mayne Reid, Marryat, and Cooper.
But it is hopeless to attempt to wean him from
his blood-and-thunder tales by a diet of milk-
and-water Sunday-school stories. Indeed, it
may be doubted whether the ordinary “ Sunday-
school story” is not as pernicious and demoral-
izing in one way as the fiery trash tale is in an-
other. It is, in fact, the two classes who have
been fed on these two diets — the feeble and the
fiery — who have most need of a strong and
sustaining fare of wholesome fiction. — Arthur
Penn" (J. Brander AIatthcws\ Home library.

November^ ’83.]

THE LIBRARY JOURNAL.

?iit)vacj) ii)urc!)ases?iist.

A SELECTION OF NEW BOOKS, WITH NOTES OF

COMMENDATION OR CAUTION.

Books tnentioned without notes can, as a rule, be safely
purchase i for the general reader. The binding, unless
otherxvise expressed, is generally understood to be in
cloth.

Adams, G: Burton. Medijeval civilization.

N. Y., Appleton. T. (Hist, primers.) 45 c.
Alexander, Mrs. [pseud, for Mrs. A. F. Hec-
tor]. The executor : a novel. N. Y., Holt.
(Leisure hour ser.) $1. — Same (Leisure mo-
ment ser.) pap., 35 c.

“A charming story of English middle class life; told
with ample details and with the aid of much bright conver-
sation. The character sketching is excellent throughout.”
— Publishers' weekly.

Benedict, Frank Lee. The price she paid : a
novel. Phil., Lippincott. S. $1.25.

The scenes are laid in and near a farm in the Lehigh
Valley, Pa.

“ Mr. Benedict’s style is bright, fluent, and on the whole
attractively fresh. The book is full of conversation, brisk,
and pointed.” — Atheneeutn.

Besant, Walter. The life and achievements of
E. H. Palmer. N. Y., Dutton. D. $3.

“ Charmingly written. Prof. Palmer, who was killed
recently — murdered for plunder in the great Egyptian
desert — after having successfully accomplished an important
and secret mission intrusted to him by the English govern-
ment in connection with the late war in Egypt, was one of
the greatest living OrientaXists." — Publishers' weekly.

“ Whoever reads this biography will find in it both
amusement and inspiration to an unusual degree.” — Ex-
aminer.

Biddle, C; Autobiography of Charles Biddle,
Vice-President of the Supreme Executive
Council of Penn., 1745-1821. (Privately
printed.) Phil., Claxton. O. net, $3
” The Biddle family is an old Phila. family that has
figured in the annals of Pennsylvania for many generations.
It has been especially distinguished for its services in the
navy. Letters from Burr, Wilkinson, and Truxtun are ap-
pended that have never before appeared in print. The
work appears just as it was written, with no attempt at
embellishment. Its style is natural, simple, and easy.” —
Publishers' weekly.

” Since 'Alexander Graydon’s ‘Memoirs,’ we have had
nothing so interesting, or so valuable as a picture of life in
Pennsylvania in the period from 1760 to 1815, as this.” —
American.

Braddon, J/zjj M. E. [now Mrs. J; Maxwell].
Phantom fortune ; a novel. N. Y., Harper.
Q. pap., 20 c.

Bunner, H. C. a woman of honor. Bost.,
Osgood. S. $1.25.

A story of artist and literary life in New York.

“ The story has no more foundation to stand upon than a
humming-top ; but being pretty well spun it whirls briskly
on its course, keeping itself up by sheer force of rotation.”
— A merican.

Conflict in nature and life : a study of antago-
nism in the constitution of things ; for the elu-
cidation of the problem of good and evil, and
the reconciliation of optimism and pessimism.
N. Y., Appleton. D. $2.

” The book is to a great extent a catena made up from
the writings of the great masters of the modern agnostic
school, with comments, criticisms, explanations, and modi-
fications by the author. His treatment of these selections
is mostly intelligent, always clear, and sometimes clever,
but is never very profound. There are in the book many

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good thoughts and happy suggestions ; and for a person
* who knows how to read an unsafe book ’ the reading of
this may prove not unprofitable.” — American.

Cooke, J : Esten. Virginia : a history of the
people. Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co.,
1883. S. (Amer. commonwealths, ed. by H.
E. Scudder.) $1.25.

‘‘With this work a new series is introduced, which will
describe in a popular style, but with historical accuracy,
the careers of such states as have exerted any marked in-
fluence in the shaping of the national government, or have
illustrated in a noteworthy degree any peculiar political
principles.”

‘‘ Seen through his mind the Virginians appear as they
were and have always remained — a peculiar people, almost
a distinct nation in their intense self-centralization. But
there is no false glamour thrown upon them by Mr. Cook.
They are very ordinary heroes for the mo>t part, stopping
to quarrel over local points whenever their terror of the In-
dian abates, loving old England with fanatical kindness,
but kicking vigorously against her unpopular governors.

. . . He has used his material with wonderful carefulness,
and withal so poetically, that the general effect is pleasingly
dramatic. . . . Readers who feel that they have already
had a surfeit of American colonial history will find their
appetites reviving by contact with this delightfully written
book.” — Boston Transcript.

Day, Lai Behari. Folk-tales of Bengal. N. Y.,
Macmillan. D. $1.

‘‘ The stories have been taken down from the lips of
humble people in Bengal, generally from old women accus-
tomed to tell them to succeeding generations of Indian
children. They have a tropical splendor and are in every
sense typical fairy stories. Now and then we have a hint
of the ‘ Arabian Nights,’ but oftener the resemblance to
stories from the ‘ Mahabharata ’ is striking.” — N . V,
Times.

De Long, G; W. The voyage of the Jeanette :
the ship and ice journals ; ed. by his wife,
Emma De Long. Bost., Houghton, Mifflin &
Co. il. 2 O. $7.50.

‘‘ These journals form the permanent record of one of the
most thrilling episodes of Arctic exploration, and may be
assigned a place on the same shelf with Dr. Kane's vivid
narration and the thrilling story of the Austrian expedition
to Franz-Josef Land. ... De Long as he is revealed in
these unpretentious diaries is one of the most inspiring
types of character the U. S. Navy has yet produced.” —
N. Y. Tributte.

Denison, Mrs. Mary A. His triumph. Bost.,
Lee & Shepard. S. $1.

Dodge, Theodore Ayrault. A bird’s-eye view
of our Civil War. Bost., Osgood. O. $3.

‘‘ A model of good taste and intelligence. The story is
told with a brevity to which lucidity is not sacrificed. The
book will be found most useful, and should be placed in
every school library.” — Boston Advertiser.

Ely, R: T. French and German socialism in
modern times. N. Y., Harper. S. 75 c.

“ One of the most useful books to the student of the social
forces of to-day. An unpretentious little book, but con-
tains the results of a great deal of research, expressed in
the most compendious and accurate form. One of its chief
merits is its frequent references to the liter.iture of the sub-
ject.”— Examiner.

Edwards, Miss M. Betham. Disarmed ; a novel.

N. Y., Harper. Q. pap., 15 c.

Edwards, Miss M. Betham. Pearla ; or, the
world after an island : a novel. N. Y.,
Harper. Q. pap., 20 c.

Fields, Mrs. Jas. T. How to, help the poor.
Bost., Houghton, M. & Co. S. bds., 60 c. .

‘‘ Aims to give a few suggestions to visitors among the
poor, and to lead all such visitors to attend the conferences
which now are held weekly in almost every district of pur
large cities. Mrs. Fields speaks as one in authority, having
been for years an earnest worker in Boston in the system of
organized charities.” — Publishers' weekly.

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[Novetnber^ ’83.

“ The same hopeful, patient, winning ardor that one
finds in the writings of Octavia Hill, or Florence Nightin-
gale, or Edward Denison.” — Atne>'icnn.

Geiiring, F. Mozart. N. Y., Scribner & Wel-
ford. S. (Great musicians.) $1.

” Covers the subject .adequately, in a dry and painstaking
way.” — N', V. Tribune.

Gilchrist, Mrs. Anne. Mary Lamb. Bost.,
Roberts Bros. S. (Famous women.) $1.

“ Skilful editorship. Presents comparatively few pages
of original matter, most of it being apt and wisely selected
extracts from the letters and other writings of Mary and
her brother Charles, so carefully and tastefully combined as
to form a pleasant biography.” — N. Y. Tribune.

“One of the very best [of the series], if not the best,
that has appeared.” — Boston Transcript.

Greville, Henry \pseud. for Mme. Alice Du-
rand]. Dosia. N. Y., W. R. Jenkins. D.
pap. , 60 c.

“ The first volume of a new series to be known Ro-
mans choisis — popular stories in French suitable for
schools, and issued at a much lower price than the French
editions.”

Greville, Henry \^pseud. for Mvie. Alice Du-
rand]. Guy’s marriage ; or, the shadow of a
sin ; tr. by Mary Neal Sherwood. Phil.,
Peterson, sq. S., $i ; pap., 75 c.

“ The subject is the duty of a wife to a neglectful and rec-
reant husband.”

“ While greatly inferior to ‘ Dosia,’ it is still a very good
novel, rather sombre and introspective perhaps, but a close
and finished study of character."— Good literature.

Hallock, C: The sportsman’s gazetteer and
general guide. Enl. ed., brought down to
date. N. Y., Orange Judd Co. $3.

“ A glossary and a directory to the principal game resorts
of the country. One of the completest manuals for the
sportsman ever issued in this country.” — Boston Sat. eve.
gazette.

Harlan, Caleb. The fate of Marcel. Phil.,
Lippincott. D. $1.25.

“ The scene is laid in Delaware, a section not often given
over to the romancer, and there are some creditable at-
tempts in the delineation of types of character ; some
negro sketches are especially well done. — A merican.

Harte, Bret. In the Carquinez woods. Bost.,
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. T. $1.

“The Carquinez woods are painted with a vigorous and
graphic pen, and so far as the physical scenery goes, there
is nothing left to be desired. Unfortunately, ‘though
every prospect pleases,’ yet in this book, at least, it is quite
true that ‘ only man is vile.’ . . . Mr. Bret Harte used
to mingle some ideal element with his pictures of life, which
prevented the vulgar interests, and vulgarer passions, of his
Californian miners from appearing to be mere blots on the
grand scenery of the forest, the canon, and the mountain.
But that ideal element has vanished, and it is with some
impatience that we find the great landscape disfigured by
so much vulgar slang, and still more vulgar vice.” — Spec-
tator.

Hawthorne. Julian. Fortune’s fool. Bost.,
Osgood. D. $1.50.

“ An exultation in physical force, a peculiar mysticism
and symbolism, a fantastic imagination and vivid descrip-
tion, startling coincidences, exaggerated language, and ex-
travagant incident, all of these will be found in full meas-
ure. ‘ Fortune’s fool ’ is full of strong situations, but it lacks
reserve. ‘Dust’ violated moral probability; ‘Fortune’s
fool’ violates all probability of incident.” — Athenceum.

Hopkins, Mark. The scriptural idea of man.
N. Y., Scribner’s Sons. D. $[.

“ Dr. Hopkins is decidedly conservative in his opinions
on the relations of religion and science.” — Good literattire.

Howe, Julia Ward. Margaret Fuller. Bost.,
Roberts. S. (Famous women ser.) $1.

“ A singularly interesting biography and one quite free
from over-pranse.'’ — Bost. Advertiser.

Howells, W: D. A woman’s reason ; a novel.
Bost., Osgood. D. $1.50.

“In ‘A Modern Inst.Tnce’ Mr. Howells drew vulgar
characters for a set purpose ; and he did it in a masterly
manner. In ‘ A Woman’s Reason ’ he deals with t.ie most
amiable and attractive men and women and the purest
springs of action, and his art is as firm as in the other
book and much more agreeable.” — N. Y. Tribune.

“ Has the merit of improving steadilj^ in interest from
the beginning until nearly the close. . . . Mr. Howells
has never .sketched with a finer or more delicate hand the
character of a young girl than when he attempted that of
Helen Harkness.” — N. Y. Times.

Irving. Henry Irving: a short account of his
public life. N. Y., Gottsberger. S. pap.,
50 c.

“A compilation from English newspapers and criticisms
culled from the writings of the most famous dramatic
critics.”

Jackson, Rev. G: A. The post-nicene Greek
fathers. N. Y., Appleton. S. (Early Christ,
liter, primers.) 60 c.

Kostlin, Julius. The Life of Martin Luther.
Tr. from the German, ed. by J: G. Morris.
Phila., Luth. Pub. Soc. O. $3.50.

Froude, in the Contemporary review., introduced his
notice of a “ Life of Luther,” by Prof. Kostlin, with these
words : “ At last we have a life of Luther which deserves
this name.” The Nation, Oct. ?5, in its notice of the
above work, points out that the volume Froude describes
is only a meagre epitome of the real Kostlin’s “ Luther
that the German epitome, however, was a model of a pop-
ular book ; that Dr. Morris has prepared’his translation from
this epitome; that errors of carelessness and inaccuracy
bristle upon every page of his translation ; that for the
illustrations and reproductions of the original have been
substituted inferior ones ; but that the work, ‘even in the
mangled form in which it now lies before English readers,
cannot fail to rouse a new and intelligent interest in the re-
former.”

Kostlin, Julius. Life of Luther. From the
German. N. Y., Scribner’s Sons. O. $2.50.

Authorized translation of Kostlin’s epitome, “ with illus-
trations from authentic sources.”

Macdonald, G: Donal Grant : a novel. Lo-
throp. D. $1.50. Same. Harper. Q. pap.,
20 c.

“ The scene is laid in Scotland, and the descriptions of
scenery are very beautiful. Macdonald’s favorite religious
speculations are made very telling in the simple language
put into the mouth of Donal Grant.” — Publishers' weekly.

“ There is much that is interesting and noble in the book,
and the style is generally very pure. But the whole is
tedious, irritating, and improbable, with a cruel ending.” —
Boston Advertiser.

Murray, D: Christie. By the gate of the sea:
a novel. N. Y. , Harper. Q. andT). ea., pap.,

“ The story is a sad and very painful one.”

Newport aquarelle (A). Bost., Roberts. D. $r.

“ The aim of the story is to depict the vapid frivolities of
this most frivolous of summer resorts, and to hold up to
scorn the absurd ty of American Anglo- maniacs who run
after everything English without delay or discrimination.”
— The Dial.

“ Apparently the work of an untr.iinetl and unaccustomed
writer, and as such creditable.” — N. Y. Tribune.

O’ Hanlon, Alice. Robert Reid, cotton-spin-
ner: a novel. N. Y., Harper. Q. pap., 20 c.

15 c.

Oliphant, Laurence. Altiora Peto ; a novel.
N. Y., Harper. Q. and D ea., pap., 20 c.

“ No one knows society better than the author of ‘ Picca-
dilly.’ Few men know better of the things, not only of
Belgravia, but of America and other countries ; and he has
had personal experience of politics, diplomacy, and finance,
while he has made acquaintance with men of the world of
all sorts.” — Saturday reviev.

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Olipiiant, Mrs. M. O. W. [Richard Brinsley
Butler] Sheridan. N.i|Y., Harper. D. (Eng-
lish men of letters.) 75 c.

“ The critics have accused her, and perhaps not unjustly,
of a lack of sympathy with this versatile genius, and of an
unnecessary harshness toward his faults.” — Publishers'
•weekly.

Olipiiant, Mrs. M. O. W. Sir Tom : a novel.
N. Y., Harper. Q. pap., 20 c.

” A sequel to ‘ The greatest heiress in England.’ ”
Parker, W; Harwar. Recollections of a naval
officer, 1841-65. N. Y., Scribner’s Sons. D.
$1.50.

*' Captain Parker’s story is delightfully told. He is ab-
solutely without art ; he lays bare his opinions and feelings
with the utmost frankness. It is clear that he is a thorough
officer, a keen observer, and an impartial narrator ; with a
quick sense of fun, a kindly temper, and an irrepressible
flow of animal spirits. ... As a whole, the book has a
sterling value, in the interest not only of truth, but of good
feeling.” — Nation.

Payn. Ja. Thicker than water : a novel.
N. Y., Harper. S. $1. Same, pap., 20 c.

” Chiefly remarkable for the well-drawn portrait of an ec-
centric philanthropist.” — N. Y. Tribune.

Perkins, Mrs. S. C. Honor bright : a romance.
Buffalo, Peter Paul & Bro. D. $1.50

” Morbid and unhealthy.” — Good literature.

Phelps, Eliz. Stuart. Beyond the gates. Bost.,
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. D. $1.25.

“ Theologians will have no difficulty in pointing out weak
and unphilosophical fancies in this story, but few will deny
that it is inspired by a pure, delicate, and wholesome feel-
ing, and that its general tendency is elevating and relig-
ious.”—A^. Y. Tribune.

Porch, Mrs. S. B. An ideal fanatic. Chic.,
Sumner. D. $1.25.

” No plot, no real character, no real interest.” — Amer-
ican.

Rein, W: The life of Martin Luther, translated
from the German and ed. by Rev. G. F. Beh-
ringer. N.Y., Funk& Wagnalls. D. (Stand-
ard lib.) pap., 25 c.

Based on Kostlin’s extensive work.

Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich. The invisible
lodge ; from the German by C: T. Brooks.
N. Y., Holt. S. $1. Same, pap., 30 c.

” A translation of ‘ Die unsichtbare Loge,’ the romance
published in 1793 which turned the scales of public opinion
in the author’s favor. Like all of Richter’s writings, the
story, a very simple one, is secondary to the satirical, sen-
timental, and philosophical remarks.” — Publishers' lueekly.

Rockstro, W. S. Life of G: F: Handel ; with
introd. notice by G. Grove. N. Y., Macmil-
lan. D. .$2.50.

” Mr. Rockstro, one of the most useful and industrious
contributors to Grove’s ‘Dictionary of music,’ has aimed
at nothing higher than a brief, correct and readable life,
less diffuse than Schoelcher’s, but also somewhat less
minute. His principal merit is the correction of the errors
of his predecessors.” — N. Y. Tribune.

Roe, E: P. His sombre rivals. N. Y., Dodd,
Mead & Co. D. $1.50.

“ The scenes are laid chiefly in connection with the late
Civil War. The incidents are sketched without any measure
of acrimony, and one object of the volume is to draw the
North and the South nearer to each other. — N. Y. Ob-
server.

“The ‘Sombre rivals’ of the hero are pain, scepticism,
and death. The extremes of happiness and of suffer-
ing in a strong, loving life, are well portrayed ; and the
spirit of the book is thoroughly pure and elevated.” — Bost.
A dvertiser.

Ross, Percy. A misguidit lassie. N. Y., Mac-
millan. D. $1.

“ There are many crudities and juvenilities, and there is

no plot to speak of. ... But the real, if not the sole attrac-
tion of this story is the English girl with French blood in
her veins, who gives the title to it.” — Spectator.

Ruskin, J; The art of England ; lectures given
in Oxford. N. Y., Wileyi D. bds., 50 c.

Cont. “ Realistic .schools of painting,” dealing with the
works of D. G. Rossetti and W. Holman Hunt, and
“ Mythic schools of painting ” (E. Burne-Jones and G. F.
Watt.s).

Stevens, J: Austin. Albert Gallatin. Bost.,
Houghton, M. & Co. D. (American states-
men.) $1.25.

“ Well written and complete.” — Boston Advertiser.
“Neither James Monroe nor Andrew Jackson, nor even
John Quincy Adams, native Americans as they were, had
so important and durable an influence on the developrnent of
our institutions and the trend of political opinion in the
United States as this emigrant from Geneva.” — M. IV.
Hazeltine.

Sumner, W: Graham. What social classes owe
to each other. N. Y., Harper. S. 60 c.

“ With the fine touch of a scientific expert the author lays
bare the weakness and shallowness of much that is urged
in the name of philanthropy and humanity and reform, and
asserts, upon American and rational principles, the right of
the rich to be rich, or, in other words, the right of every
man to reap all the leg:itimate and honorable rewards of his
abilities and opportunities.”

“There is no page which is not weighty with meaning.”
— Bost. Common'wealth.

Symonds, J: Addington. Italian by-ways. N. Y.,
Holt. D. $1.75.

Sketches describing out-of-the-way corners of Italian
scenery, obscure phases of Italian life, and little known
periods in Italian history and literature.

“ In none of his volumes is he so happy as in this collec-
tion of shorter pieces of travel, for in none is he so much at
ease, and nowhere else does his smooth and very discursive
style find more appropriate matter.” — N. Y. Times.

Talma, Fran9ois Jos. On the actor’s art ; with
preface by H: Irving. N. Y., Roorbach.
20 p. O. pap., 25 c.

“ There are very few books in English on the art of acting,
and most of them are good for nothing. It is therefore with
great pleasure that we welcome these translations from the
F rench. ’ ’ — Nation.

Topelius, Z. Times of battle and of rest ; tr.
from the original Swedish. Chic., Jansen,
McClurg & Co. S. (The surgeon’s stories.)
$1.25.

“A wholesome piece of romance of the Walter Scott
type.” — N. Y. Tribune.

Trollope, Anthony. An autobiography. N. Y.,
Harper. D. $1.25. — Same. Q. pap., 20 c.

“Since Mr. Trevelyan told the story of his uncle’s life
there has been published in England no more genuine or
more interesting record of a literary career than that unfold-
ed in these volumes.” — Satuaday reviezo.

Wallace, Mrs. Susan E. The storied sea.
Bost., Osgood. S. $1.

“ Sketches suggested by the Mediterranean and its many
interesting ports. Carthage, Tunis, Constantinople and
life in the harem, Athens, and Smyrna are the principal
themes, with reminiscences of Napoleon and Byron ; they
are written by the wife of Gen. Lew Wallace, author of
‘ The fair God ’ and ‘ Ben Hur,’ now U. S. Minister at
Constantinople.” — Publishers' •weekly.

“ Pretty and poetical things about places rather than about
people, and poured forth with a freshness and feminine
gayety of heart that is exhilarating.” — N. Tribune.

Werner, E. \^pseud. for E. Burstenbinder].
Banned and blessed ; after the German by
Mrs. A. L. Wister. Phil., Lippincott. D.
$1.50.

A gloomy story of ignorance and superstition in an old
German village.

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\ November., ’83.

Ilotes anti Cgumes.

Paste. — In my recipe {L. j., 8 : 55), two table-
spoonfuls of sugar was printed instead of tea-
spoonfuls. If any one has followed the recipe as
given and inwardly despises my judgment, let
him try again and save my reputation.

K. A: Linderfelt.

E. H. Palmer. — It may save your readers and
some booksellers trouble if you will state that in
the edition of the Life of E. H. Palmer which
bears the name of E. P. Dutton & Co., English
print, the List of Palmer’s Works,” constituting
the 3d appendix, “was left out purposely. ” So
those who require a perfect copy of the book
must get the proper English edition.

Philadelphia, Oct. 22. John Edmands.

Where is it?— “ Verhandlungen der Gesell-
schaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin.” i
vol. 40. Berlin, 1819-29. [Cf. Scudder’s catalog,
nos. 2292, 2322.]

My friend, Prof. B., has tried in vain to find
this vol. in Boston, Cambridge, and New York.
Can* any one tell where there is a copy?
The “ Beschaftigungen,” “ Schriften,” “ Maga-
zin,” etc., are easily found, but not the “ Verhand-
lungen.” W: 1. F.

fficneral j^otes.

Olivet College has received $10,000 given
to the library fund by Mrs. L.. E. Tuttle, of
Guilford, Conn., in memory of her son.

The Indiana University library was burnt
July 12 with other buildings. The fire was set
by lightning travelling along a telephone wire.

Minneapolis is to have a library building,
modelled after that at Pittsfield, Mass., together
with a generous endowment from Mr. G. Morri-
son.

The Bibliotheque Nationale has received
from the late M. E. Fleury a bequest of 17,000
engravings and drawings illustrating the history
and antiquities of the department of the Aisne.

Rev. A. L. Green’s widow has presented to
the public the valuable theological library col-
lected by her husband, which is especially rich
in books and pamphlets bearing upon the history
of the Jews in England.

The Wigan Reference Library has been lately
described by the librarian in a series of articles
in The Wigan Observer. It is an excellent plan
thus to call the attention of the public by a little
gossip about the chief books.

Ma|(chline, the little town in Ayrshire which
was so long associated with the name of Burns,
was not able to boast of possessing a copy of
his poems in its public library until within a few
months. A prophet is not without honor, save
in his own country.

Mr. W: 1. Fletcher succeeds as librarian of
Amherst College Mr. Biscoe, who has gone to

assist Mr. Dewey in the Columbia College
Libraries. Frank B. Gay, formerly of the Hart-
ford Library, takes the place in the Watkinson
Library left vacant by the resignation of W. I.
Fletcher.

Drs. O. Hartwig, librarian of the University
Library, Halle, and K. Schulze, librarian of the
Reichsgerichtsbibliothek, Leipzig, will issue at
the beginning of next year a monthly periodical,
which will treat matters concerning libraries.
The title of it will be Ceuiralblait fiir Bibliotheks-
wesen, and it will be published by the Leipzig
firm of Otto Harrassowitz.

Dartmouth College.— The Hon. E. A.
Rollins, of Philadelphia, has offered $30,000 for
the erection of a chapel conditional upon the ob-
taining of |6o,ooo before January next for the
erection of a fire-proof library for the college.
The lately deceased wife of Mr. Rollins was the
author of “New England bygones” under the
pseudonym of E. H. Arr.

The British Museum celebrated the fourth
centenary of Luther’s birth by turning out the
bibliografical rarities from the show-cases in
the Grenville Library and substituting books,
engravings, models and autographs, manuscripts,
etc., illustrating the life of the reformer, and
there has been a lively controversy about it in
the Athenceum (Sept. 22, Oct. 6, 13, 20) between
Messrs. Karl Pearson, who complains that many
important Luther documents were not exhibited,
and that there are blunders in the catalogue,
and H; Stevens and H: Jenner, who defend the
Museum. K. Pearson replies in Aih., Oct.
27, andH: Jenner and H: Stevens rejoin in ^4///.
Nov. 3, p. 367, 368. There is an article on the
exhibition in the Bibliographer iox Oct., p. 126-
132.

The Yonkers Free Reading-room was for 15
years an attractive place for the factory hands.
For lack of pecuniary aid it died out last May.
A short time ago S: Shethar, a wealthy hat manu-
facturer, bought a house on Palisade Avenue, fit-
ted it up in elegant style and will in a few days
open it as a free reading-room and circulating
library for women who have to support them-
selves, of whom there are many hundreds in the
place. While Mr. Shethar has furnished the
building. Miss M . . Butler, daughter of W. Allen
Butler, provides the means of carrying the
library on. Miss M. . B. Daniels is the Superin-
tendent, and has charge at present of a tempo-
rary reading-room near by. Recently the Yonkers
Free Reading-room was reopened. Some time
after it was closed, in May, Mr. S: J. Tilden
determined to reopen the room, but could make
no satisfactory arrangements for so doing.
While he was looking for a suitable room Mr.
E. A. Nichols, President of the Eickemeyer Hat-
blocking Machine Company, who owns the
building, reopened the room himself. In ad-
dition to these literary facilities, the two Roman
Catholic churches have each a reading-room for
those of their own creed, and have recently
opened another in Getty Square for those of any
creed.

November^ ’83.]

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THE COURSE OF EMPIRE. Being Out-
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World. Arranged by Centuries, with variorum illustra-
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and beauty many of the most picturesque and remarkable
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Russia, and form a fitting complement to the descriptive
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December, 1883.

Contents :

Editorial

The Proposed Index of Essays.
Koopman’s System of Numbering.
The Library Handbook ....

Libraries and Disease

A Library in Ruins

Library Lectures ,

Page

335

336

337

338

Library Economy and History

Bibliography

Anonyms and Pseudonyms . .

Notes and Queries

Literature for the Young . .

Library Purchase List ....
General Notes

Supplement :

CO-OPERATIVE INDEX TO CURRENT PERIODICALS.

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In looking over the discussion on Mr. Poole’s
suggested index of essays vve have been some-
what surprised to find no one pointing out that all
which he advocates has been already done in the
catalogs of the Boston Athenaeum, Brooklyn
Library, and Peabody Institute. Probably hard-
ly a single work which would come within the
scope of his plan fails to be included in one or
the other of those catalogs, unless indeed it has
been published since they were. Mr. Griswold’s
plan is more extensive, as it includes French
and German authors ; yet even Mr. Griswold’s
plan does not go beyond the practice of the
Peabody Institute and the Boston Athenaeum.
But his scheme is not now in question, since,
owing to an almost incomprehensible want of ap-
preciation on the part of American librarians, it
has not met with sufficient encouragement to be
continued. To return to the index proposed at
Buffalo. We have not pointed out that it has
been anticipated with any desire of discouraging
its preparation. Two of the catalogs mentioned
contain a great deal of other matter. They are

too bulky ; the Athenaeum is (and we suppose
the Peabody will be) too costly to be in many
private libraries. Moreover, one of them does not
embrace the latest essay literature. A not too
large volume, therefore, which shall contain only
this and nothing more, and shall be continued
by annual or biennial supplements, is a desidera-
tum. But we have called attention to the over-
looked fact that much of the work had been
performed in order to suggest a method of pre-
paring the new index. Why give out to the over-
worked collaborators volumes of essays which
have been indexed two or three times already ?
Why not use what has been done ? Set copyists
of intelligence to work looking through the three
catalogs named and any others that would be
serviceable and extracting whatever comes within
the scope of the new index. The mere writing
will be the same ; but the brainwork, the
reading of essays to see what they are about,
and the classification, will all be saved. At
the same time let other workers be indexing the
volumes that do not appear in any catalog. We
venture to say that they would not be found very
numerous, especially if the manuscript supple-
ment of the Athenaeum and the manuscript cata
log of Harvard College library were included in
the list of sources.

Mr. Koopman’s plan described in another
column, does not perform quite all that it
promises, — to mark a million with three charac-
ters,— inasmuch as underlining a character is
equivalent to writing a fourth character ; but it
is nevertheless ingenious. It is of course practi-
cable, but we have some doubts whether the ad-
vantage of using few characters is not counter-
balanced by the difficulty of remembering which
kind of character comes first. One must riot only
remember that but be perfectly familiar with it,
to arrange the books in their proper order and to
find them again. Library assistants to be sure

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can be trained to use the notation ; but could the
great public, sometimes stupid, usually indiffer-
ent, and always averse to any mental effort. If
it cannot, then the notation will not do for
libraries like the proprietary, mercantile, and
college where the public or a portion of the pub-
lic are admitted to the shelves. And even in
other libraries there may be some difficulty in
getting the borrowers to copy exactly on their
call-cards the capitals and small capitals and
lower case and to remember always to “ under-
line the odd alfabet.” Imagine a careless person
calling for bF^ or pXr. If he is not only careless
but irascible, what will be the result ? However,
Mr. Dewey is trying the experiment, with a
somewhat less confusing notation, and theoreti-
cal doubts may be dispelled by practical success.

THE LIBRARY HANDBOOK.

PROSPECTUS OF THE EDITORS.

The production of this book has been frequent-
ly urged upon the editors since they have been
actively engaged in library-inquiries, and es-
pecially in connection with their duties as officers
of the Library Association. In 1878 they issued
a circular, to which, in consequence of the then
undeveloped interest in library-work, they re-
ceived less in the way of response than had been
anticipated. The subject was however kept be-
fore their minds, and a considerable body of
statistical and other facts was gradually accumu-
lated. In 1881 they were intrusted with the re-
sponsible task of preparing the article “Libraries”
for the new edition of the Encyclopaedia Britan-
nica, for which purpose about 3000 copies of a
carefully-prepared series of questions in English,
French and German were addressed by them to
all the largest and best-known libraries in the
world. To a very considerable proportion of
these circulars the fullest and most satisfactory
answers were received. Of the information thus
collected but a small proportion could be utilized
in the pages of the Encyclopaedia, owing to the
narrow limits of space which could be allotted to
the writers. The editors immediately upon the
publication of the article, were strongly urged
by many of the leading members of the associa-
tion, and by others, to expand it into a separate
volume, a suggestion the editors still hope to
carry out, and to develop the historical and
practical portion at no distant date. With re-
gard to the statistical and descriptive portion,
they felt that such information should be recent
and be kept continually under revision, condi-
tions which would probably be found impracti-
cable in a work embracing the whole scope of
libraries and librarianship. They decided, there-
fore, to issue the latter division separately, with
the hope that, if the volume be favorably re-
ceived, it may be possible to make it a yearly
publication. So much progress has now been

made in preparing the work for the press that
the editors think the time has come for a defi-
nite announcement. It was hoped that the vol-
ume might have been issued simultaneously
with the Liverpool meeting of the Library
Association, but under any circumstances it may
be confidently expected shortly afterward.

The Library handbook will contain : i. An
introduction, comprising a brief sketch of library-
management, including the selection of books,
library-buildings and appliances, classification
and shelf arrangement, catalogues and catalogu-
ing, binding, etc. ; and a selected list, with notes,
of the most useful works of reference for libra-
rarians and bibliographers. 2. A condensed
account of all the existing libraries in the United
Kingdom of any importance, with practical and
personal information. 3. A similar account of
thfe chief libraries of other countries, especially
the United States, the British Colonies, France,
Germany, Italy and Spain. 4. Various ap-
pendices will contain matter of value to libra-
rians, bibliographers and book lovers.

The volume will be issued at the lowest pos-
sible price, in order to bring it within the reach
of the users as well as the managers of libraries.*
The editors will be glad to be favored with
any suggestions from you for the improvement
of the work. Henry R. Iedder,

Late Hon. Secretary of the Library Association
(1877-81) and Librarian of the Athenaeum
Club, Pall Mall, S. W.

Ernest C. Thomas,

Hon. Secretary of the Library Association, (from
1878) and Late Librarian of the Oxford Union
Society.

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lodging in the unsuspected pages of the book
as when they left the sick-room. It is only nec-
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in which the lungs or the skin is giving out poi-
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certainly and more widely by books than in any
other way. It is a discouraging picture — a pen-
dant to those which the Lancet paints from time
to time, in which we see the thorough adultera-
tion of everything which we eat. When com-
bined with the chances of catching typhoid fever
in the country during our vacations, and being
poisoned by sewer-gas in the city during the
winter, with the rapidly diminishing number of
unpolluted water-supplies, with the gradual but
certain filling up of the atmosphere by dust and

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of the Library journal.

December^

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smoke, it affords a ready answer to Mallock’s
question whether life is worth livinq, by showing
that, to any well-informed person, life is becom-
ing impossible. As to this newly-discovered
danger, it will be advisable for cautious persons
to read no book which is not accompanied by a
medical certificate that it has never been read by
any person having, or having had, an infectious
or contagious disease. A surer way still will be
to imitate the practice of the clubs in regard to
fresh packs of cards, and never read a book after
it has been read by anyone else. In the mean
time, it may be a comfort to timorous persons to
know that in great public libraries whose books
circulate without restriction everywhere, when
the smallpox has been raging, it has never been
communicated to the attendants by books, nor,
so far as is known, to any of the other borrowers.
— C. A. C. in The Nation.

A correspondent of Health writes : “I
have a family at present suffering from
scarlet fever who contracted it from the reading
of books from a public library. They themselves
are further infecting the same books by continu-
ing to read them while desquamation (or peeling
off of the skin) is going on. Could the commit-
tees of public libraries not recommend that fever
nurses should inform them when their books
have been used ? Unless they adopt some meth-
od of preventing this ever-recurring source of
disease, they may rest assured that their usual
patrons will forsake them.”

A LIBRARY IN RUINS.

The City Library is the collection of books
that has been gradually accumulating ever since
the foundation of the city, and that is now shelved
in the City Hall, over the police station. The
room is in the utmost disorder. It has come to
be, to a greater or less extent, a lounging-place
for idle men. The ceiling is foul, stained, and
broken. The walls are dirty, pencil-marked,
and pasted over with newspaper clippings, a
picture from a police paper, and odd bits of dirty
paper. The worn-out. tattered oilcloth looks as
if it had not been cleaned since the room was
first used as a library, which is said to have been
in 1847. A heap of broken glass rests against a
bookcase, and a pile of brooms, maps, brushes,
and pails rests in one corner, beside a wash-
stand, whose boarded side is falling to pieces.
The bankrupt city of Elizabeth contains no pub-
lic room in any such condition.

But the valuable collection of books is worse
off. These are stored in great cases built against
the walls and in other lofty closets standing one
on either side of the chamber. These cases have
while frames and varnished and glazed doors.
The white painted wood of the drawers under
these cases seems never to have been cleaned.
They are filthy with dirt. The glass in the doors
is so dusty and dirt-begrimed that through some
of them it is impossible to read the titles of the
volumes. At the bottom of the lowest line of
panes dirt has been settling and accumulating

for years, and it thickly coats the glass, and lies
an eighth of an inch thick on the bottom shelves.
Impatient and reckless citizens or custodians
have deliberately pulled the locked doors open
rather than stop to unlock them, and the bolts
are, in two of them, actually split out of the
wood. The doors of the topmost closets have
been left open for months, perhaps years, and
the dust has had free access to the shelves. The
shabby pieces of white writing-paper tacked on
the shelves and bearing the titles of each sepa-
rate department of the collection are stained and
torn. Election ballots are pasted on one of the
frames. On the odds and ends of old-fashioned
furniture, and on the floor, are great piles of
books, dust-covered and in ragged wrappers,
giving the room the appearance of an Ann Street
paper dealer’s store, or the lumber-room in a
book collector’s garret.

But while all this can be remedied with dust-
ers, paint, or soap and water, the books can
never be made presentable. The dust, neglect,
and violent usage from which they have suf-
fered for years have left them, in the main, so
many wrecks. They compose a battered, worn,
moth-and-dust-eaten array of tatters and dirt.

Yesterday, when The Sun reporter went in
there, as any citizen is at liberty to do, and as
lawyers do every day, to look over the State
laws and city ordinances of the past, he found a
policeman loafing in a chair in one corner and a
group of idle-looking men looking over the
costly and once beautiful collection of prints of
the monuments of Paris and Nineveh which
form a rare series in the collection. He found
that the librarian is Thomas Dorsey and his
assistant is John Drout. They were not chosen
for their fitness for their duties.

In the division of patronage each Alderman
has the appointment of some man to some of
the regular positions, and the posts of librarian
and assistant librarian fall in the general list.
The men who get these places are thus repaid
for politcial and party services. Each gets $800
a yenr. The only librarian in twenty years
who was by training capable of intelligently dis-
charging the duties of the place, according to
an old and well-posted politician, was Mr. Rich-
ard Henry Stoddard, the poet, who went out at
the end of a year. Sometimes, when an Aider-
man is re-elected, his henchman in the library re-
mains a second year.

The library contains a very great deal of rub-
bish in the form of broken sets of books and
odds and ends of municipal records of other
cities. It.contains many very valuable volumes,
however, besides those that have been mention-
ed— the complete records of the old Volunteer
Fire Department, a full set. with the exception
of two volumes, of the city directories, and a
complete set of the famous Corporation Manu-
uls being among these. How many valuable
books have disappeared from its shelves will
never be known, though it is said that there are
some now in another public collection. A lot
of medals sent by Pope Pius IX. and the costl}’^
sword with its jewelled scabbard that Gen. Paez

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presented to the city were stolen from that room
some years ago. Fortunately the most valuable
part of the collection — the early manuscript rec-
ords of the city from the times of the Dutch
until after the termination of the English rule —
are locked up in a number of huge safes in an
adjoining room, and the keys to these are in the
possession of the Clerk of the Common Coun-
cil.—yV. y. Sun.

LIBRARY LECTURES.

BY A. W. VV. DALE, TRINITY TTALL, CAMBRIDGE.

May I call attention to Sir James Picton’s sug-
gestion at the Liverpool Congress that lectures
should be established in connection with our
public free libraries? Any librarian who is also
engaged in educational woik can testify how
much service can be rendered to inexperienced
students by suggesting authors and a plan of
study. Without some such guidance many hesi-
tate to attack an unfamiliar subject, deterred by
the mass of literature and their inability to make
a selection. Others who make the venture sac-
rifice precious time, and too often abandon the
effort in weariness and disgust, although their
difficulties might have been removed by a few
words of judicious counsel. T o render assistance
of this kind is the primary function of such lect-
ures as Sir James Picton recommends, not so
much to attract readers as to guide them. They
will be most efficient when least formal ; and if
the aim of the lecture is to enable his audience
to teach themselves, systematic discourse should
always be followed by free conversation. This
plan has been adopted by the lecturers of the
University Extension scheme and in more than
one town the managers of the public libraries
declare that an unprecedented demand for books
of the nobler class has been produced by their
influence. People are willing to read the very
best literature, if only they are set in the right
way. Work of this kind, it is clear, cannot be
left to the library assistant ; it does not fall within
the range of their duties, and would demand fac-
ulties of a different order. We cannot look to
the librarian-in-chief. In the larger public insti-
tutions his strength is already taxed up to the
limits of endurance, and in any case one man
could not undertake such a task without aid. The
work can only be done effectively by those who
possess the charm of living interest inseparable
from personal familiarity with a favorite study.
A discourse worked up for the occasion is dreary
and cold as a house newly built and newly fur-
nished, not yet transformed into a home. But
there must be many men in every town willing
and able to render such service. The roughness
of political life revolts someover-sensitive nat-
ures : a touch of cynicism keeps others from the
work of social reform. Here they can plead no
such excuse. The sacrifice would be small— an
hour, perhaps, out of the week— and the enter-
prise might reward them with experience unat-
tainable in the barren seclusion of the study.—
London Times.

liibrarg iEcotiomg anD l^istorg.

Grkene, C: S. In a great library [verses].

(In Overland monthly^ Oct., p. 352.)
Librarians. (In The Standard., Bridgeport,
Conn., July 18.) f col.

Meulen, R. van der. Boekhandel en biblio-
graphie ; theorie en praktijk, naar het voor-
beeld van Rottner, Schiirmann, Rouveyre e. a.
Leiden, Sijthof, 1883. 13 -f 503 p. 8®. 6. 10 f.

Milne, J: Duguid. The success of free public
libraries in industrial towns and the necessity
for a free public library in Aberdeen. Aber-
deen, 1883. 18 p. 8®.

“ Mr. Milne handles his statistics with great
skill and force, so as to show that the advantages
of the acts have been mainly enjoyed by the in-
dustrial classes and that they are chiefly interested
in the adoption of them. He contrasts the work-
ing of the acts with that of mechanics’ institu-
tions. . . . Excellent and practical address.”
— Monthly notes.

Monthly notes of the L. A, U. K. Vol. 4, nos.
6 and 7, 8 and 9, 10. London, June 15,
July 15 ; Aug., Sept. ; Oct., 1883. O.

The double no. 6, 7 contains an account of
the method of distributing the statutes, which
appears to be quite as irrational and ill-adapted to
attain its true objects, although it has just been
revised by a committee, as our own distribu-
tion of public documents.

There is also an amusing article on library
statistics, calling attention again to some in-
accurate statements in the Bibliographer (‘‘ Bib-
liotheque National over half a million,” etc.),
which the editor of that periodical had, unluckily
for himself, attempted to defend.

The no. 8. 9 contains the Report of the Coun-
cil, from which it appears that the member-
ship is still increasing, being now 380. There
is also a circular from Mr. Eizak Pitman offering
6500 volumes ‘‘ to the free librariz ov Great
Britain and Ireland at the rate ov 50 volumez
to each.”

The Plymouth {Eng.) Free P.L. has issued an
official statement of the operations and ad-
vantages of its various departments, for ex-
tensive circulation through the outlying dis-
tricts of the town to reach many who do not
at present use the library. A form of appli-
cation for a borrower’s ticket is printed on the
back, in order that the awakened interest may
find no difficulties in its way.

Sham book titles. (In Bibliographer., Oct. 1888,
p. 136-139.)

SiBBALD, A. T. Public libraries. (In Time,
Nov.)

Mr. E: Edwards is engaged on a new edition
1 of his ” Menr^oirs of libraries.” The new issue

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will be in three volumes, instead of the two of
the original edition. It will be printed exclusive-
ly for subscribers, and will be sold only by the
author (Sea-View, Niton, Isle of Wight) and by
the printer. Each volume is so arranged as to
be a book complete in itself ; i. e., it embraces a
strictly definite section of the general subject, and
is furnished with a special title-page, expressive
of that section only, as well as with a general
title-page, common to the three. Vol. i, it is
hoped, may be ready for issue in June, 1884. —
At/i.

We notice that a civil-list annuity of eighty
pounds sterling has been awarded to Mr. Edward
Edwards, who was the first librarian of the Man-
chester Free Library.

San Francisco Frei<: P. L. (Added 9,019 ;

total 47,126 ; issued 198,765 ; used inside

122,134.).

“ Roughly speaking, the natural life of an
actively used popular library book is not much
more than two years.” ” Fiction read, 60 per
cent. For the future, it is proposed not to re-
place the books of a certain number of the more
sensational novel-writers, and not to buy their
new ones if any appear.” , . .

” For purchases the sums allotted by the city
government are (juite inadequate. Such small
allowances for the principal object of the library
cripple the usefulness of the institution, place it in
a false position toward the public, and render its
immediate managers liable to be blamed for dis-
appointments and dissatisfactions which are not
their fault. We have constant applications for
new and useful books which we are unable to
supply for want of funds. No library which re-
sponds to the public demand with such frequent
refusals can continue at its proper standard of
popularity or usefulness. . . . The present
tendency of the best public librarians in the
country is to co-operate systematically with the
public schools. Friends of education would
gladly assist. At present, however, the Chief
Librarian of this library is obliged to do about
all that is done in cataloguing new books, re-
cataloguing old ones, and preparing and copying
lists of all kinds, besides some other details.
The lime and strength expended in this way
ought to be better employed.”

iJitiUograf)).

Briggs, C: A: Catal. of books of reference.
(Pages 429-488 of his Biblical study, N. Y.,
1883, 315 + 506 p. O.)

Edj^iands, J: Reading notes on Luther. From
the Mercantile Library Bulletin. Phila., 1883.
18 p. S.

Gundlach, O. Bibliotheca familiarum nobi-
lium ; repertorium gedruckter Familien-Ge-
schichten u. Familien-Nachrichten. Neustre-
litz, 1883. 3+260 p. 8**. Interleaved. 10 m.

Har'I', C: H: Bibliog. Websteriana ; publica-
tions occasioned by the death of Daniel Web-
ster. n.p., n.d. 4 p. 1. O.

Extr. from the Bulletin of the Merc. Lib.,
Phila., July, 1883.

Jacohs, Joseph. The Jewish question, 1875-83 ;
bibliog. hand-list. (In Trilbner s lit. recod'd,
4 : 69-72.)

Ill nos. carry the alfabet to Br. The char-
acter of the works is indicated by initials. A=
Anti-Semitic, P = Pro-Semitic, C = Conver-
sionist.

Le Vavasseur, G., and others. Canton de
Briouze ; essai de bibliog. cantonale. Paris,
Champion, 18S3. 102 p. 12".

Muther, Dr. R: Die altesten deutschen

Bilder-Bibeln, bibliog. u. kunstgeschichtlich
beschrieben. Miinchen, lit. Inst, von Huttler,
1883. 2 1. +68 p. 8'^. 1.50 m.

Perin, C. Recherches bibliog. sur le departe-
ment de I’Aisne ; catalogue et table de livres,
chartes, lettres-patentes, 6dits, arrets, lois,
biographies, notices, et documents imprimes
concernant le departement. 3e partie. Sois-
sons, imp. Foss6-d’Arcosse fils 1883. 7 + 555

p. 80.

Publishers’ trade-list annual, 1883 ; embracing
the latest catalogues of publishers and manu-
facturers ; a reprint of the Pub. weekly record
of books, July 8, 1882-June 30, 1883 ; com-
plete index ; also the Amer. educational cata-
logue for 1883. nth year. N. Y., F. Ley-
poldt. Sept., 1883. II cm. thick. 1,‘0. $1.
Riviere, le R. P. Bibliog. malgache.

There is a note on this by the Comte de
Marsy in Polybiblion, oct., p. 340, 341.

A ” Turgenieff ” bibliografy is given in the
Literary world. Sept. 22, p. 304, 305.

Dr. A. C. Peale has included a bibliografy
in his Report on the thermal springs of the
Yellowstone National Park, reprinted from Dr.
Hayden’s 12th annual report (for 1878).

Dr. Johannes Muller announces ‘‘ Die wis-
senschaftlichen Vereine urid Gesellschaften
Deutschland im ipn Jahrh. Bibliographie. ”
It is to be published in about 6 parts at 6
marks and will be completed during 1884.

Mr. James D Brown, assistant librarian of
the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, is preparing a
biographical dictionary of musicians, to be pub-
lished in the course of next year. Particular at-
tention will be given to the biographies of living
musicians, nearly the whole of which will be
based on information furnished directly from the
subjects of the articles. A special feature of the
work will be an appendix, the ‘‘Bibliography
of English Writings on Music.”

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Catalogs.

Catalogue of books in the library of . N.

Y., R. G. Hutchinson. 120 pp. Sm. 4“.

This is a very convenient volume intended for
cataloguing a private library contain ng about
2000 works, allowing only one entry to a work.
The pages, which are alphabetically indexed at
the side like a ledger, are divided into sertions
with the following entries over them : Title,
author, publisher and date of publication, no.
of volumes, size, style of binding, remarks, and
a column not designated but which might very
properly have been devoted to price. For any
who love their books and would like to preserve
some memorial of them, a history and a descrip-
tion as it were, this book will prove very accept-
able.

Cornell Univ. Libr.a.ry. Special lists, no. i :
Mathematics. Ithaca, N. Y., 1883, 92 p. 1. O.
Reprinted from the “ Library.”

Garnett, R: The printing of the British Mu-
seum catalogue, a paper read at the Cam-
bridge Meeting of the L. A. U. K., Sept. 5,

1882. (Not published ) 16 p. O.

Gives a history of the printing from 1834,
and a description of the present operation.
There are now in the catalogue about 3 millions
of titles, and the shelving at command for cata-
logues is full. Printing will enable the same
space to contain 18 million titles. Ihe printed
volumes had cost (in 1882) about each ;

but it was expected that one sixth of this cost
could be saved by certain changes. Mr. Gar-
nett says : ” We are content with a single revise
and deliberately prefer systematic energy to
minute accuracy.” In a letter dated, Nov. 9,
Mr. Garnett writes, ‘‘ By Midsummer next we
hope to have published the whole of A except
Academies and Aristotle, the latter part from
Virgil to the end of the alphabet, and several odd
volumes.”

Ireland. National L. Suppl. catalogues of
books, by author, title, subject, and class
added during 1880. Dublin, n.d. ii +455 p.
O.

Small caps are used for authors, lower case
for titles, italic caps for subjects and classes.
A clear and unusually long explanation of the
method is prefixed by Mr. Archer, who is an
enthusiastic believer in the dictionary system.
It is to be feared that a certain portion of the
public will not have the patience to read the
9 pages of explanation. Perhaps it would have
been well to prefix a brief synopsis of the main
points ; there are cases where it is necessary to
have a little door for the kitten as well as a large
door for the cat.

Leyden Universite. Catalogue des livres
chinois qui se trouvent dans la bibliotheque ;
[par le prof. G. Schlegel]. Leide, E. J. Brill,

1883. 27 p. 1. O.

Queensland. Parliament. Analytical and
classified catalogue of the Library. Brisbane,
1883.

Dictionary. Includes references to portions
of books as well as to distinct works. By the
librarian, Mr. D. O’Donovan.

The Mason Science College of Birmingham
has printed a catalog of 6000 v. of its period-
icals and journals and transactions of scientific
societies.

The new “ Condensed rules for an author and
title catalog” of the Cooperation Committee
have been printed separately and can be pro-
cured of the chairman, C; A. Cutter, by sending
a 3 ct. postage stamp.

The Harvard University bulletin for Oct.
continues the ‘‘ Maps in Peterrnann’s Mittheil-
ungen” and the ‘‘ Bibliography of Ptolemy’s
Geography,” and begins a description of ” The
Kohl collection of early maps belonging to the
Department of State,” by Justin Winsor.

The Boston P. L. Bulletin, autumn no., con-
tinues Benjamin Franklin and American local
history (to Buffalo), and gives an Index to the
notes about books and reading, and to the
special book lists found in the catalogues of
the B. P. L. and other libraries and also in
periodicals, and an index (i^ p.) to the British
sessional papers of 1881.

Indexes.

Bacchi della Lega, Alberto. Indice genetale
della Bibliografia dantesca comp, dal vise.
Colomb de Batines. Bologna, Romagnoli,
1883. 2 1. -f- 174 p. 8®. 6 m. 250 copies.

Griswold, W:M. Table alfabetique g§nerale
des matieres et des noms des auteurs cont.
dans les t. 193-268, de la Revue des Deux
Mondes et 1-2 1 de la Nouvelle revue. Bangor,
Q. P. Index, 1883. 25 p. O.

Hitherto, with one exception, Mr. Griswold has
been in competition, actual or prospective, with
other American indexes. Here, however, he
has all the field to himself. The matter in the
Revue des Deux Mondes and ihQ Nouvelle revue
is so important that no doubt all the libraries
who have sets of those periodicals, and that is,
we suppose, all the larger libraries, will get
this. Even that, however, will not give him
many customers, and we hope, though we hardly
expect, that the work will find some market
abroad.

I have just received the ” Index of obituary
notices for 1881,” and the first name I saw on
opening the book at p. 49, was ” Helmholtz
(Herrman Ludwig Ferdinand), Professor of
Physiology at Heidelberg” {sic !), which post he
left years ago. That this great man could have
died so all of a sudden, and only the Tele-
graphic jour, and through it the I. S. know of
it, seems to me to be remarkable enough to de-
serve being announced to the rest of the world
in the Library journal. K. A: Linderfelt.

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^Inougms ant ^seutonjjms.

7 he bitter cry of outcast London is by the Rev.
W. C. Preston. — Ath.

Black Abbey. — Last week, in noticing In the
West Countrie, our reviewer of novels described
the author as “ Mrs.” instead of ” Miss” Crom-
melin. The^correction of the mistake gives us
the opportunity of stating that Miss May Crom-
melin is the author of Black Abbey, A jewel of a
girl, and Orange Lily (all published anonymous-
ly), as well as of that Christmas story of last
year. Brown Eyes, which no reader of it is likely
to forget. — Acad., Nov. 3.

His second campaign. — Mr. Maurice Thomp-
son is reported among the booksellers as the
writer.

History of folin de Castro and his brother Bat,
commonly called old Crab, 1817 or 1818, was by
G: Colman the younger. A second ed. was
styled merely ” Brother Bat.” — E: C. Hamley in
Notes and 6 s., 8 : 339.

Huit jours a Lourdes, Paris, Bray et Retaux,
1883, 64 p., 16®, is by J: Vaudon.

Memories of seventy years , by one of a literary
family, London, Griffith and Farran, 1883, is by
Mrs. A.nna Letitia Le Breton.

Mr. Jacobs. — There is a rumor linking the
name of Prof. H ; A. Beers, of Yale College, with
the authorship.

Modern Manicheism, Labour's Utopia, and
other poems. London, J: W. Parker, 1857. —
‘‘ I believe the name of the author was W. T.
Thornton. ” — W: H. Beet in Notes and ^. , 6 s. , 8 :
339-

G. E. R. and J. H. W., letters signed to the
preface of ” Ephemera, Boston, Ticknor, Reed
and Fields, 1852,” stand for G: E: Rice and J:
Howard Wainwright.

John Strathesk ps. of J: Tod in ” Bits ffom
Blinkbonny.”

L. M. C., initials used in the ‘‘Science of
Food, London, 1883,” by the daughter of the late
Sir H: Cole, of the South Kensington Museum.

Louis Barnaval. — The volume of poems edited
by De Kay and called the poems of Louis Bar-
naval are said to have been written by a former
resident of Tensas Parish, La., an ex-Confederate
soldier, and are dedicated to a sister of Louis Bar-
naval, of Tensas Parish. I wrote to my friend
Judge Steele, of Tensas Parish, inquiring if there
was such a family in his parish. He replied ; ‘‘ I
have inquired of a dozen of our oldest citizens,
and find that they have no knowledge of any
such person [as Louis Barnaval] in this State,
and they say there was no one by the name of
Barnaval from Tensas in the army.” The
Nation pointed out some time ago that there
was nothing Southern in the poems, and that
probably De Kay was himself the author. — Chester
W. Merrill.

The Brother of PROTEUS. -It is difficult
to see the object of giving a book several differ-
ent titles, unless it be to punish librarians, cat-
aloguers, book clerks, and others who have to
keep track of them. A little work recently
issued by the Putnams bears upon its side the
title “Guide to the Northern Pacific Railroad
and Its Allied Lands upon its back, “ North-
ern Pacific Railroad upon its title-page, “ The
Great Northwest, a Guide-Book and Itinerary,”
etc.; and in its publishers’ advertisements,
‘‘ The Tourist’s Guide to the Northern Pacific
Railroad.” Of course the book is quite likely
to find its way into catalogues under each of the
four titles, creating a most irritating confusion.
— Exchange.

Government Publications.— Messrs. James
Anglim & Co., 1424 F St., Washington, D. C.,
have issued under date of Oct. and Nov., 1883,
Nos. I, 2, of a “ Monthly bulletin of the publica-
tions of the United States Government.” They
announce that they will ‘ ‘ endeavor to furnish
in this Bulletin a complete list of the latest pub-
lications of the Government, together with such
data as may be obtainable of works ordered for
publication, and those in course of preparation.”
They “hope to issue it monthly, and will mail
it, without charge, to all dealers, bookbuyers,
and librarians who will send” them their ad-
dresses. The first number of the Bulletin con-
tains a “ List of publications of U. S. Govern-
ment, from January i to October i, 1883.”

S : S. Green,

Chairman of the Public Document Committee
of the American Library Association.

[The Publishers' weekly since 1882 has been
publishing quarterly lists of the publications of the
U. S., compiled by George W. Boehmer. — Ed.]

Numbering. — Allow me to submit a scheme
for numbering a million volumes with only three
characters. This can be done if we start with a
base of 100. ' Such a base is furnished by taking
two alphabets of 25 letters each, say common
type, with capitals and small letters, and heavy-
faced type with both “cases.” These can be
distinguished in writing by underscoring the odd
alphabet. This system gives 100 general divis-
ions, 100 subdivisions under each of these, and
100 still finer subdivisions under each of the for-
mer subdivisions — all with only three letters.
Four letters will number 100,000,000 volumes.
This system can be applied directly to Dewey’s
decimal classification ; and other classifications
can be made to fit it by paring or padding. The
system seems to me both simple and practicable.

H. L. Koopman,

Library of Cornell University.

[Mr. Dewey has had a similar idea and is now
using at Columbia College Libraries a notation
with a base of 100, of which and its success he
will no doubt in due time give an account in the
Journal. — Ed.]

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[December^ ’83.

Hiterature for tije l^oung.

Edited by Miss C. M. Hewins, Librarian of
Hartford Library AssociATiolSr.

Notes and suggestions., from various sources, on read~
ing and the best use of books, are to be included in this
depart^netit.

Butterworth, Hezekiah. Zigzag journeys in
northern lands ; the Rhine to the Arctic.
Host., Estes & Lauriat. O. bds., $1.50 ; cl.,
$2.25.

‘‘ Mr. Butlerworth’s fifth volume of ‘ Zigzag Journeys ’
is a collection of ghost stories, German legends, and short
sketches of noted men and places in northern Europe.
The preceding volumes of this series have been very popu-
lar. The present one is fully illustrated, but is less pleas-
ing than its predecessors, and the verses about ‘ the queer
old lady who went to college ’ are unsuitable for young
people and an injury to the book.” — Boston Advertiser.

Campbell, Helen. The American girl’s home
book of work and play. N. Y., G; P. Put-
nam’s Sons. D. $2.

“ It describes first in-door games, then out-of-door games,
passing to collections, sewing, all sorts of mimic fabrica-
tions, work in wax and leather, shells, mosses, wood, etc.

It describes light gardening and kitchen work, the rearing
of birds, poultry, bees and the like, and is altogether an ex-
pansion and modernization of what was for the time suc-
cessfullj’ attempted in Lydia Maria Child’s ‘ Girl’s Own
Book.’ ” — Independent.

Champney, Lizzie W. Three Vassar girls in
England ; il. by ** Champ ” and other artists.
Bost., Estes & Lauriat. O. bds., $1.50; cl., $2.

“A girl’s book about young women who visit England
and stay at the country houses of respectable titled peo-
ple. The idea seems to be to breakdown the prejudices of
Americans against English people, and vice versa." — AVw
Vork Times.

Chronicle (The) of the Cid ; ed., with an in-
troduction and appendix, by R: Markham,
and il. with upward of fifty designs by H. W.
McVickar and Alfred Brennan. N. Y.,
Dodd, Mead & Co. O. $3.

” In no case do the legends succeed better in illuminat-
ing the nature of a powerful and interesting character than
in that of the Cid. So far as the legends are quite consist-
ent with the character, they add to the attraction of his
story, and consequently to its usefulness.” — Boston Ad-
vertiser.

Cooke, Frances E. Story of Theodore Parker ;
with an introduction by Grace A. Oliver.
Bost., Cupples, Upham & Co. D. (Lives of
the great and good, ed. by Grace A. Oliver.)
$1.

Eytinge, Margaret. The ball of the vegetables
and other stories in prose and verse. N. Y.,
Harper. O. $2.

‘‘ Bright, charming, and generally merry.” —Nation.

Finley, Martha. Elsie’s new relations : what
they did, and how they fared at Ion ; a sequel
to “Grandmother Elsie.” N. Y., Dodd,
Mead «S: Co. S. (Elsie ser.) $i 25.

Like the olher books of the series, a compound of cant,
twaddle, mawkishness and descriptions of fabulous wealth.
The marriage of a girl of fifteen is alone enough to con- >
demn the book and its predecessor. — Ed.

French, Harry W. Our boys in China. Bost.,
Lee & Shepard, sq. O. cl. ,$2.50; bds., $1.75.

“ Scott and Paul Clayton are not English lads who wear
chimney-pot hats at twelve, and ruffled cuffs and knicker- I

bockers on Sunday, but are real American boys. They
talk good language without slang, and have no resemblance
whatever to Peck’s bad boy, or the creature with a ‘ diary,’
and yet are full of fun, life, and spirits. They keep their
eyes open, and have a jolly time. The author knows a
good deal about India ; and, though perhaps only a tourist
in China, is free from blunders, and tells us about the Chi-
nese in a light and easy yet exact way.” — Critic.

Greey, E: The bear-worshippers of Yezo, and
the island of Karafuto (Saghalin) ; or, the ad-
ventures of the Jewett family and their friend
Oto Nambo. Bost., Lee & Shepard. O.
bds., $1.75 ; cl., $2.50.

“ Mr. Greey’s long residence in Japan has made him a
thorough master of his subject, and enabled him to write
understandingly and authoritatively regarding the scenes
and characters he has chosen to illustrate. The volume
has nearly two hundred engravings, all of them after draw-
ings by Japanese artists.” — Boston Gazette.

Hale, Miss Susan, and Hale, Rev. E. E. A
family flight through Spain. Bost., Loihrop.
il. O. $2.50.

Henty, G. a. The boy knight who won his
spurs fighting with King Richard of England :
a tale of the Crusades. Bost., Roberts. D.

$1.50-

KiEFFhR, Harry M. The recollections of a
drummer-boy. Bost., Osgood. S. $1.25.

“ It is safe to say that there will be no more interesiiiig
book for boys published this year in attractive book-form.
It is a careful revision and enlargement of a series of
papers that appeared originally in the St. Nicholas Maga-
zine, embodying a realistic relation of the author’s three
years in the army during the Secession war.” — Boston
Gazette.

Kirkland, E. S. Speech and manners for
home and school. Chic., Jansen, McClurg
& Co. S. $1.

” Many common errors of speech are brought to light
and dwelt upon forcibly, and many defects in manners,
more especially those which children are apt to show, are
clearly pointed out. The necessity of habit in order to
speak correctly, and of unselfish consideration for others
rn order to act courteously, are strongly insisted on. Good
suggestions are made with reference to composition and
letter-writing. The book is an admirable one for mothers
to read aloud to their children.” — Nation.

Knox, T: W. The boy travellers in the far
East. Pt. 5 : Adventures of two youths in a
journey through Africa. N. Y., Harper. O.
$3*

” Colonel Knox’s humor is not visibly restrained by his
inability to draw upon his own experience. The little
library which he has created with .so much painstaking
ranks among the most instructive of the juvenile publica-
tions of late years, as among the most entertaining. ’There
is very little art in the composition ; the literary style is
certainly not a model ; the woodcuts have too frequently
determined what the text should be, instead of vice versd ;
and still the event ha sshown that the writer had a mission,
and that he knew how to recommend himself to the young.
He has had a host of imitators but hardly any rival.” —
Nation.

Ladd, Horatio O. History of the war with

Mexico. N. Y., Dodd, Mead & Co. D.
(Minor wars of the United States.) $1.25.

” The origin of the Mexican war is excellently told, and
thorough justice done to those noble whig statesmen who
refused all sympathy with a movement solely in the in-
terest of the slave power. The subsequent history of the
campaigns is clear, interesting, and accurate.” — Boston
Advertiser.

Longfellow, H; W. Courtship of Miles Stan-
dish, arranged in seven scenes for parlor
theatricals and school exhibitions. Bost.,

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Houghton, Mifflin & Co. S. (Riverside lit.
ser., no. 3.) pap., 15 c.

Markham, R: A narrative history of King
Philip’s war, and the Indian troubles in New
England. N. Y., Dodd, Mead & Co. D.
(Minor wars of the United States.) $1.25.

“ Mr. M.irkham has simply sought to work up from well-
known material a connected and readable story of the
period of which he treats. He has not fallen into the
ancient error of overestimating Philip’s greatness, nor has
he been quite as unjust to the Plymouth men as it usually
has been the fashion of modern writers to be. On the
whole, for a person who likes such a book as this is, it is a
book which might have been a great deal worse.” — Congre-
gationahst.

Nelson, Julia. Two years at Hillsboro’. Phil.,
Lippincott. D. $1.25.

Full of the tricks of ill-bred school-girls, who use such
choice English as “ Like I do,” and “ Well, if I ain’t just
glad to see yon.” One of the girls has a proud, high-bred
face and aristocratic head.” ” Her dress of bronze and
gold silk was made in the latest fashion, with bows, puffs,
and flounces innumerable. Bracelets clasped with ame-
thysts encircled her wrists, a costly necklace hung round
her neck, diamonds sparkled in her ears and on her fingers,
but it was all worn wiih that ease and unconsciousness that
did not make her look vulgarly overdressed or ‘ shoddy.' ” ! !
— Ed.

Pyle, H., ed. Merry adventures of Robin
Hood. N. Y., C. Scribner’s Sons. Q. $4.50.

” Mr. Pyle has done full justice to his subject, and his
labor has evidently been one of love. Both his text and
illustrations are marked by a quaintness, freshness, and in-
dividuality wonderfully adapted to the story he has to tell.
His style is clear and simple, and while he uses obsolete
forms be never falls into affectation or sacrifices meaning to
mannerism.” — A merican.

ScuDDER, H. E. English Bodley family.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co. sq. D. bds.,
$1.50.

Stephens, C. A. The Knockabout Club in the
tropics. Bost., Estes & Lauriat. O. bds.,
$1.50 ; cl., $2.

“ Most of the stories woven into the narrative are
spirited and well told ; but the personal adventures of
the ‘ Club ’ are little noteworthy, and are recounted in a
style which is at once coarse and inane. The literary de-
fects of the book, joined with a considerable inaccuracy, do
not help the proof the author proposed to give, that ‘our
plan of getting an education is the correct one.’ ” — Nation.

Taylor, Jane and Ann. Little Ann, and other
poems : il. by Kate Greenaway. N. Y., Rout-
ledge. O. bds., $2.

Woolsey, Miss Sarah C. (“ Susan Coolidge,”
pseudi\ A round dozen. Bost., Roberts. S.
$1.50.

“ Full of charming things for young readers —stories
which give play to the imagination without over-stimulat-
ing It.'" — Christian Union.

TO JACOB ABBOTT. '

Dear charmer of a thousand happy hours, .

My earliest guide into those blessed ways
Wherein I have delighted all my days.

Sweeter to me than laggard August showers
To thirsty fields it was, to hear thee tell
Ofhappy Rollo, and of Jonas wise.

And Lucy with her meek inquiring eyes.

And all that happed to dearest Mary Bell.

Now thou art gone, so long the children’s friend !

But, as I muse, I seem at heaven’s door
To hear a sound which there I heard before.

When Danish Hans that way did softly wend —

A sound of children making merriest din
Of welcome, as the old man entered in.

John W. Chadwick.

Jacoh AiiiiOTT, — The critics may decry his
work as literature, and the caricaturists of
“ Rollo’s journey to Cambridge” may raise a
laugh at his expense ; the fact remains that no
American writer for children has held so power-
ful a sway over their minds, or held it so long,
as Jacob Abbott, and none has more firmly pre-
served a place in their grateful and honoring re-
collections as the children became parents, and
the parents grandparents in turn. To these
books — these simple, sensible, truthful, saga-
cious, wholesome books, and their comrades
from the same hand — three living generations of
Americans owe some of the best and most lasting
lessons ever taught to human minds. — Lit. uorld.

How TO Teach Reading. — Teach children to
discriminate between the excellent, the poor,
and the abominable. While they cannot be ex-
pected to enjoy Emerson or John Stuart Mill,
they may be led to prefer Trowbridge and Hig-
ginson to the vicious records of criminal life,
real and imaginary, with which the country is
flooded. Don’t give children reading matter
entirely above their comprehension, yet don’t
keep them in ba’oyland all their lives. Don’t
read to them too much, but make them depend
upon themselves for their stories, etc. — A. H.
Stevens, Stamford., Conn.

The Suppression of Criminal Literature.
— To the Editor of the Evening Post — Sir: The
daily papers report that an agent of one of the
prominent illustrated “ police” newspapers pub-
lished in New York has been sentenced by the
authorities of the State of Georgia to several
years in the chain-gang for dealing in obscene
literature. This is excellent, if true, and, if it
does not to some extent offset “ Southern homi-
cide,” it cannot fail to check the general volume
of crime. When “ Baldy ” Smith denounced a
publisher of this poisonous stuff as furnishing to
the young the best text-book of crime in the
land, he got a few faint cheers for his pains. It
circulates with the utmost freedom in the North-
west at the present day, and for aught I know,
Georgia is the only State that has taken the mat-
ter up.

Minneapolis, Minn. F. G. C.

Children’s Books in 1700. — There was com-
piled and printed A Play-book for children to al-
lure them to read as soon as they can speak plain ;
composed of small pages so as not to tire chil-
dren ; printed with a fair and pleasing Letter, the
Matter and Method plainer and easier than any
yet extant.” The price of this was fourpence,
and it must have been a favorite, for it is adver-
tised as being in its second edition in 1703. The
boys, however, had strong meat provided for
them in such tales as “Jack and the giants,”
etc. ... In all probability the child learned
his letters in the first instance from a “Horn-
book,” such as were then commonly used and
sold. . . . Horn-books are now very scarce in-
deed, and the man lucky enough to possess a
genuine one must feel proud of his rarity. It
consisted of a small sheet of paper, generally
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which was printed the alphabet, both in capitals
and small text, the vowels, and a few simple
combinations, such as ab, eb, ib, ob, ub, ba, be,
bi, bo, bu, etc., and the Lord’s Prayer. This
was laid on a flat piece of board with a roughly-
shaped handle, and covered with a thin plate of
horn, fastened to the board by copper tacks
driven through an edging of thin copper. It
therefore would stand a vast amount of rough
usage before it would be destroyed — a fact of
great importance in elementary education. —
Social life in the reign of Queen Anne — Ashton.

Influence of Librarians. — I am not myself
altogether sure of the wisdom of teaching every-
body to read ; but might be otherwise per-
suaded if here, as in Norway, every town had
its public library, “while in many districts the
peasants annually contribute a dollar toward a
collection of books, which, under the care of a
priest, are lent out to all comers.” I observe
that the word “ priest” has of late become more
than ever offensive to the popular English mind,
and pause only to say that in whatever capacity
or authority, the essential function of a public
librarian must in every decent and rational coun-
try be educational and consist in the choosing,
for the public, books authoritatively or essential-
ly true, free from vain speculation or evil sug-
gestion and in noble history or cheerful fancy,
to the utmost entertaining. — John Ruskin.

Newspapers in School. — The newspapers
can be used to very great advantage by an intel-
ligent, wide-awake teacher of history, geography,
reading, and other subjects, but there is always
an important “if,” on which such advantage is
conditioned. This “if” means the teacher’s
discretion and discrimination. It would never
do to let the pupils take the newspaper entire,
or any item or article in it entire ; but the mat-
ter, whatever it may be, must first have passed
the critical scrutiny of the teacher. We can
imagine nothing more injurious or confusing
than to train the pupil to accept as absolute
truth, or even as a fair statement, the average
assertions of the newspaper. A teacher may
use newspapers as an auxiliary, but their ser-
vice to him must be simply a suggestive service,
nothing more. — School journal.

Richter’s Designs. — I hope that in many
English households there may be found already
— I trust some day there may be found wherever
there are children who can enjoy them, and
especially in country village schools — the three
series of designs by Ludwig Richter, in illustra-
tion of the Lord’s Prayer, of the Sunday, and of
the Seasons. Perfect as types of easy line draw-
ing, exquisite in ornamental composition, and
refined to the utmost in ideal grace, they repre-
sent all that is simplest, purest, and happiest in
human life, all that is most strengthening and
comforting in nature and religion. They are
enough in themselves to show that whatever its
errors, whatever its backslidings, this century of
ours has in its heart understood and fostered
more than any former one, the joys of family
affection and of household piety. — John Rus-
kin, A rt of England.

iLibrarg ^urcijasesHist.

A selection of new books, with notes of

COMMENDATION OR CAUTION.

Books mentioned without notes can, as a rule, be safely
Purchased for the general reader. The binding, unless
otherwise expressed, is generally understood to be in
cloth.

Adams, Herbert B. Village communities of
Cape Ann and Salem. Balt. O. (Johns
Hopkins Univ. studies), pap., 50 c.

Six papers first pub. in the hist. coll, of the Essex Insti-
tute.

Aldrich, T: Bailey. Mercedes and later lyrics.
Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co. O. $1.25.

“ ^ Mercedes,’ excepting its brevity, has all the elements
of a successful stage-play. The ‘later lyrics’ have all
more or less of that exquisite beauty of form and sentiment
and fancy which the public recognizes as the stamp of Mr.
Aldrich’s workmanship.” — Bost. Traveller.

Allen, G. G. Universal phonography ; a self-
instructor. Bost., Lee & Shepard. T. 50 c.

Allen, Jos. H; Christian history in its three
great periods : Third period. Modern phases.
Bost., Roberts. D. $1.25.

See Library journal, June, p. 114.

Amicis, Edmondo de. Jottings about London ;
from the Italian by Rob. S. Minot. Bost.
[New Eng. News Co.] 63 p. D. pap., 25 c.

A graphic picture of the principal lions of London.
Arius, the Libyan : an idyl of the primitive
church. N. Y., Appleton. D. $1.50.

” An historical novel by an unknown author, based upon
real and imaginary incidents in the life of the author of the
Arian heresy in the fourth century, and portraying the life
and character of the primitive Christians with great force
and vividness of imagination, if not always with a strict ad-
herence to historical fact.” — Harper's Magazine.

Arnold, Edwin. Indian Idylls. Bost., Roberts.
D. $1.

The Mahabharata and the Ramayana, from which Mr.
Arnold makes these translations, are called “ two colossal,
two unparalleled epic poems in the sacred language of In-
.dia,” containing ” almost all the history of ancient India, so
far as it can be recovered, together with such inexhaustible
details of its political, social and religious life, that the an-
tique Hindu world really stands epitomized in them.” The
N. Y. Tribune says, ‘ Mr. Arnold has clothed these charm-
ing and tender episodes in a verse whose smooth and grace-
ful flow accords most happily with his subject.’

Ashenhurst, T: R. Design in textile fabrics.
N. Y., Cassell & Co. With 10 col. pi. and 106
diagrams. S. $2.

” Mr. Ashenhurst, being head-master of the textile de-
partment of Bradford Technical College, is an unexceptional
authority on the principles of design applicable to textile
fabrics.” — Atheneeum.

Ashley, W. J. James and Philip van Artevelde.
(Lothian prize essay, 1882.) N. Y., Macmil-
lan. D. $2.

” Deals with a highly interesting period of European
history, and one which is very little known — the struggle of
the great towns against the feudal lords, and the equally
bitter struggle of the townsmen among themselves. ... Mr.
Ashley tells his story simply, but though his style is clear
enough, the book is occasionally obscure by reason of con-
fused arrangement and want of division. We cannot see
the wood because of the trees.” — Saturday review.

Baird, H: M. The rise of the Huguenots of
France. New ed. N. Y., Scribner’s Sons.
2 V. maps. O. reduced to $3.50.

Bar, L. International law : private and crim-
inal. Trans., with notes, by G. R. Gillespie.

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Best., Soule & Bugbee. $5.50 ; hf. cf.,
net, $6,50.

Bardeen, C. W. Verbal pitfalls : a manual of
1500 words commonly misused ; with 3000
references and quotations and the ruling of
the dictionaries. Syracuse, N. Y., C. W. Bar-
deen. 223 p. S. 75 c.

Barrows, "W: Oregon : the struggle for pos-
session. Bost. , Houghton, Mifflin & Co. S.
(Am. commonwealths.) $1.25.

A list of authorities on the struggle of five nations,
for Oregon is prefixed to the work.

“ Told with great clearness and particularity.” — N. Y.
Sun.

BfiLOT, Adolphe. Fedora, or the tragedy in the
Rue de la Paix ; from the French by A. D.
H. Chic., Rand, McNally & Co. D. $1.

” American readers who desire to revel amid crimes and
debauchery will find an abundant feast in ‘ Fedora.’ ” —
Chic. Inter-Ocean.

Besant, Walter. All in a garden fair. N. Y.,
Harper. Q. pap., 20 c.

“ An English story of country-life in the outskirts of Lon-
don at the beginning of the present century.”

Bishop, Rev. H. H. Pictorial architecture of
the British Isles. N. Y., Young, obi. O.
net. $1.20.

” Illustrations with descriptive text of the most remark-
able and picturesque architectural specimens, both ancient
and modern, to be found in Great Britain.”

Bishop, W: H; Old Mexico and her lost prov-
inces : a journey in Mexico, Southern Cali-
fornia and Arizona by way of Cuba. N. Y.,
Harper, il. D. $2.

” Subjects which have been periodically and laboriously
written upon have not been exhaustively reconsidered by
our author ; but his impressions, always distinguished by
a fine intelligence, are given in graceful outline, and he
rarely fails to point out some feature hitherto disregarded.”
— Chicago Tribune.

Brehat, Alfred de. The black sorceress : a
tale of the peasant’s war ; adapted from the
French by A. D. H. Chic., Rand, McNally
& Co. 303 p. D. cl., $1.

Briggs, C: A:, D.D. Biblical study : its prin-
ciples, methods and history : with a catalogue
of books of reference. N. Y., Scribner’s
Sons. O. $2.50.

” Admirably adapted for readers and students who desire
to know the results of the most recent investigation and
the best modern scholarship in the field of biblical study.”

Briggs, H: Steam-heating: an exposition of
the American practice of warming buildings
by steam. N. Y., Van Nostrand. T. bds.,
50 c.

Brooks, Rev. Phillips. Sermons preached in
English churches. N. Y., Dutton. D. $1.75.
Broughton, Rhoda. Belinda: a novel. N. Y.,
Appleton. D. $1.

•‘In this novel ‘intrigue is carried to the last step but
one. It is a feverish, unwholesome book, with a smirking
bow to propriety.’ ” — Atlantic monthly.

Brown, Susan Anna. Mrs. Gilpin’s frugali-
ties : remnants, and 200 ways of using them.
N. Y., Scribner’s Sons. obi. Tt. bds., $1.

It aims to show Americans how to practise a new and
attractive economy in connection with their tables.

Bunge, O. B., comp. Fair words about fair
women ; gathered from the poets by O. B.
Bunce. N. Y., Appleton, il. O. $3.

•‘A very charming voluroe, in which is included every

form in which admiration or respect for women has been
expressed or inspired.” — N. V. Times.

Burnett, Frances Hodgson. Vagabondia: a
love story. Bost., Osgood. D. $1.50.

” First published in Peterson's magazine (1873) under
the title of ‘ Dorothea,’ and afterward in book form as
‘Dolly’ in 1877. ‘Vagabondia,’ the title originally in-
tended for it, applies to a portion of London life, whose
members are impecunious authors, artists, and professional
people generally.”

Butler, C. M., D.D. The reformation in Swe-
den ; its rise, progress and crisis, and its tri-
umph under Charles ix. N. Y., Randolph.
D. $1.25.

Carr, Lucien. The mounds of the Mississippi
valley, historically considered. Cin., Robt.
Clarke & Co. Q. pap., $1.50.

The author is 'assistant . curator of the Peabody Mu-
seum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge,
Mass.

Clodd, E: The childhood of religions. N. Y.,
Fitzgerald. O. (Humboldt lib.), pap., 15 c.

Coan, Titus Munson, ed. Questions of belief.
N. Y., Putnam’s Sons. S. (Topics of the
time.) pap., 25 c. ; flex, cl., 60 c.

Contents: — The responsibilities of unbelief, by V. Lee;
Agnostic morality, by Frances Power Cobbe ; Natural re-
ligion, by E. Gurney The suppression of poisonous opin-
ions. by Leslie Stephen ; Modern miracles, by E. S. Shuck-
burgh.

CoAN, Titus Munson, ed. Art and literature.
N. Y., Putnam’s Sons. S. (Topics of the
Time.) pap., 25 c.

Contents : — The philosophy of the beautiful, by J: Stuart
Blackie ; Hellenism in South Kensington, by H. D. Traill ;
The beginning of art, by S. Lane Poole ; The ancient,
mediaeval and modern stage ; The impressionists, by F.
Wedmore ; Wagner and Wagnerism, by E. Gurney.

Cobbe, Miss Frances Power. Darwinism in
morals and other essays. Bost., G: H. Ellis.
D. $2.

Fourteen essays reprinted from the Theological and
Fortnightly reviews, Fraser's and Macmillan' s tnaga-
zines, etc.

Her paper on ‘ Darwini.sm in Morals’ is an an.swer to
the hypothesis as propounded by Mr. Darwin of the evo-
lution of conscience from purely animal instincts, a doctrine
which she regards as fatal to all true morality.” — N. Y.
Tribune.

CoBBETT, W: The English grammar of W:
Cobbett ; revised and annot. by A. Ayres.
N. Y., Appleton. S. $1.

“ The most readable grammar ever written.”

Conkling, Howard. Mexico and the Mexi-
cans ; or, notes of travel in the winter and
spring of 1883. N. Y., Taintor Bros., Mer-
rill & Co. D. $1.50.

Cooke, G: Willis. George Eliot : a critical
study of her life, writings, and philosophy.
Bost., Osgood. D. $2.

‘‘ A careful, critical study of her life and work.” — Boston
A dvertiser.

Cotton, J. S., and Payne, E. J. Colonies and
dependencies. Pt. i: India, by J. S. Cot-
ton ; Pt. 2 : The colonies, by E. J. Payne.
N. Y., Macmillan. D. (English citizen ser.)
$1.

” Neither part is much longer than one of the more im-
portant articles of a cyclopaedia, but each is so well digested
and so tersely presented that it gives nearly all the ordi-
nary reader would care for. Each is also the work of a
thoroughly competent hand.” — Nation.

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YD ec ember., ’83.

Dahn, Felix. Felicitas : a romance from the
German, by Mary J. Safford. N. Y., Gotts-
berger. S. pap., 50 c.

A romance of the 5th century ; scene is laid in the
Salzburg valley, then occupied by the Romans.

“An attempt to reproduce the life of that period. The
result is a facinating story, the only fault of which is its
brevity.” — Boston Transcript.

Daudet, Ernest, and others. French celebrities,
as seen by their contemporaries : a series
of brief biographies of the foremost French-
men of our day ; tr. by Francis W. Potter.
N. Y., Funk & Wagnalls. D. (Standard lib.)
pap., 15 c.

Subjects: Marshal de MacMahon, Gambetta, Jules
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Ferd. de Lesseps.

Delitzsch, Franz. Jewish artisan life in the
time of Jesus, according to the oldest sources ;
tr. by B. Pick. N. Y., Funk & Wagnalls. S.
pap., 15 c.

De Mille, Ja. A castle in Spain : a novel ; il.
by E. A. Abbey. N. Y., Harper. O. pap.,
50 c.

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Dictionary of quotations from English and
American poets, based upon Bohn’s edition,
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from American authors. N. Y., Crowell. O.
$2.50.

Diderot, D. The paradox of acting ; tr., with
annotations, by W. H. Pollock ; preface by
H: Irving, N. Y., Scribner & Welford. O.
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than Diderot’s treatise, which is what its author calls
it, and no more, a paradox, — Spectator.

Everett, C. C.,D.D. Religions before Chris-
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Supplemented by a short annotated list of books for
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the schools of a Christian church.” — Independent.

Fawcett, Edgar. An ambitious woman. Bost.,
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. D. $1.50.

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Fisher, G: P., D.D. The grounds of theistic
and Christian belief. N. Y., C: Scribner’s
Sons. D. $2.50.

Elaborate and able.” — Bost. Com/noniuealtk.

Foster, D: The scientific angler. N. Y.,
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esting and profitable.’'— A^. Y. Eve. Post.

Froude, Ja. Anthony. Historical and other
sketches ; ed., with an introd., by D. H.
Wheeler. N. Y., Funk & Wagnalls. D.
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Selection from the works of Mr. Froude.

Gilman, Arthur. A history of the American
people. Bost., Lolhrop. il. O. $2 50.

“ The author has had an opportunity to make use of the
great additions that have been made within a few years to
our knowledge of the past. He tells his story with credit-
able accuracy and enthusiasm.” — Bost. Advertiser.

Gilmour, AVz/. Ja Among the Mongols. N. Y.,
Am. Tract Soc. il. D. $1.50.

“ Home life, manners and customs, occupations, modes
of thought, superstitions and religious beliefs of the Mon-
gol tribes.” — Preface. 'Fhe 18th chapter contains a clear,
detailed account of Buddhism to-day.

Gladden, Washington. The Christian league
of Connecticut. N. Y., The Century Co. D.
cl., 75 c. ; pap., 50 c.

“ A Congregational minister calls upon his brethren of all
denominations to combine their forces, and with united
counsel and labor organize themselves to solve effectually
the questions of mission work, relief of the poor, temperance
reform, etc., assigning certain parts of the work to certain
workers, and all meeting on common ground, to do all they
can in a tolerant Christian spirit.”

Goetpie, J: W. von. The wisdom of Goethe ;
with a list of citations prepared especially for
this edition, with references to the text of the
more important works by J: Stuart Blackie.
N. Y., Scribner’s Sons S. $1.25.

“ The extracts are simply delightful.” — British Quarter-
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Blackie’s “ interesting ‘ Estimate of the character of
Goethe’ is in the main just.”— £■.- Dowden in the Academy.

Gonse, M. Louis. Eugene Fromentin, painter
and writer ; tr. by Mary Caroline Robbins.
Bost., Osgood, il. sq. O. $3.

“ Fromentin became the chief interpreter, in French art
and literature, of the scenery and life of North Afric.a.” —
N. Y. Tribune.

“ M. Gonse is an art critic as well as biographer, and his
comments are acute and discriminating. The book is liber-
ally illustrated with reproductions of the famous painter’s
pictures.” — Phila. North Ameri an.

Gray, J: Chipman. Restraints on the aliena-
tion of property. Bost., Soule & Bugbee,
1883. O. net, $2.=o ; shp., net. $3.

“An essay on the history and present condition of the
law governing restraints on the transfer of properly, both
voluntary and involuntarj-.”

Green, Anna Katherine. Hand and ring. N.Y.,
Putnam’s Sons. il. D. $1.50.

A new novel of the detective class.

Hale, E: E. Seven Spanish cities, and the way
to them. Bost., Roberts. S. $1.25.

“If it does not tell us a great deal that is new about
Spain, it has very much this eflect in presenting the pecu-
liarities of the Spanish people, and the picturesque feat-
ures of their land in a new light.” — Boston Gazette.

Hale, Horatio, M.D.. ed. The Iroquois book
of rites. Phil., D. G. Brinton. O. (Lib. of
aboriginal Amer. lit.) $3.

“Comprises the speeches, songs, and other ceremonies
when a deceased chief was lamented and his successor in-
stalled in office; also gives the fundamental laws of the
League. ’ ’— Ph il. Telegraph .

Hall, E: H. Ten lectures on orthodoxy and
heresy in the Christian Church. Bost., Am.
Unitarian Assoc. S. 75 c.

‘‘A clear statement in familiar style of the schisms that
have arisen in Christianity as regards doctrine.” — Bost.
Gazette.

Harland, Marion, [pseud, far Mrs. M. V. H.
Terhune.] The cottage kitchen : practical
and inexpensive receipts. N, Y., C: Scribner’s
Sons. D. $1,

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Hakland, Marion. Judith : a chronicle of Old
Virginia. N. Y., Fords, Howard & Hulbert.
il. D. $1.50.

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ican fiction, as a representation of the life and time and
country it deals witn. 'I'he value of the book is in its pict-
ures of [Old] Virginia life and thought.” — Ca/V/V.

Harris, J. C. Nights with Uncle Remus:
myths and legends of the old plantation.
Bost., Osgood, il. D. $2.

” Represents the only foim of literature which appeals to
every one, young and ignorant and educated. Shows that
we have living in our country by the side of our civilization
the mythology of remote and savage races. The book is as
important to the ethnologist as it is delightful to children.”
— Bost. Adve7-tiscr.

Harris, S:, D.D. The philosophical basis of
theism : an examination of the personality of
man to ascertain his capacity to know and
serve God, and the validity of the principles
underlying the defence of theism. N. Y.,
Scribner’s Sons. O. $3.50.

Hazard, Rowland G. Man a creative first
cause : two discourses. Bost., Houghton,
Mifflin & Co. O. 75 c.

” Mr. Hazard has condensed into a brief space the fruits
of a life-time of vigorous and original thinking. . . . He
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moral nature is to be uplifted by lofty ideals.” — Amer-
ican.

Hood, Edwin Paxton. Scottish characteristics.

N. Y., Funk & WagnaLls. D. pap., 25 c.
Hopkins, Louisa Parsons. Hand-book of the
earth : natural methods in geography. Bost.,
Lee & Shepard. T. 50 c.

An inductive treatise in geography.

Hoppus, Mary, A. M. A great treason : story
of the war of independence. N. Y., Macmil-
lan. D. $1.

“ For an historical novel it is written with unusual
grace and spirit. The book may well be added to the short
list we have for school-room use. of good illustrations of
the Revolutionary war.” — N Y. Eveniftg post.

Howard, Blanche Willis. Guenn : a wave on
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“Miss Howard’s work improves. ‘Guenn’ derives a
special interest from the unfamiliar society with which it
deals. The 'scene is a Breton fishing village near Quimper,
visited in the season by a small colony of artists.” — N. Y.
Tribune.

Jefferies, R: The story of my heart : my
autobiography. Bost., Roberts. S. 75 c.

“ It is not a love story, but a confession of his passionate
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him. ... It is full of eloquent passages, but it is vague,
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“ It is not an autobiography, but the wearisome repeti-
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Jewett, Sarah Orne. The mate of the Day-
light and friends ashore. Bost , Houghton,
Mifflin &^Co. S. $1.25.

“ We recommend Mi.ss Jev/ett’s stones to foreign, particu-
larly English, readers, for a true picture of New England
pastoral life.” — Critic.

Johnston, Alex. The genesis of a new Eng-
land state (Connecticut). Baltimore, 29 p. O.
(Johns Hopkins Univ. studies.) pap., 30 c.
Kirby, V/ F. European butterflies and moths ;
with 61 colored plates ; based upon Berge’s
“ Schmettcrlingsbuch.” N. Y., Cassell. Q.
$15-

Lambert, C. and S. The voyage of “The
Wanderer;” from the journals of C. and S.
Lambert ; ed. by Gerald Young, il. by R. T.
Pritchett and others. N. Y., Macmillan, col.
pi. and maps. O. $7.50.

“'I’lie record of this delightful trip is simply told in
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teresting matter about Chili and the South American lands,
which her owner evidently knows well.” — St. James’s
gazette.

Lanza, Marchioness Clara. A righteous apos-
tate. N. Y., Putnam’s Sons. D. $i 25.

“ Crude romance, with what .seems an effort to adapt the
methods of Mr. Wilkie Collins to the condition of American
1 i fe . ” —A cadeftty.

Linton, W. J., and Stoddard, R. H., eds. Eng-
lish verse. In 5 v. V. i: Chaucer to Burns.
V. 2 ; Lyrics of the nineteenth century. V. 3 :
Ballads and romances. V. 4 : Dramatic scenes
and characters. V. 5 : Tran.slations. N. Y.,
Scribner’s Sons, 1883. D. ea. $1.

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ample repre.senlation of contemporary poetry and its selec-
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deal of valuable matter not readily found elsewhere. Mr.
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appropriate and appreciative introductions. The responsi-
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M ANSON, G: J. Wolk for women. N. Y.,
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Illustrated papers that appeared in the earlier volumes
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Mitchell, Lucy M. A history of ancient sculpt-
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“ What she gives us is not an aesthetic essay on ancient
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rather a history in the strict sense of the word, tracing with
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Morris, G: S. Philosophy and Christianity :
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Mozoomdar, P. C. The Oriental Christ. Bost.,
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“ .A. devout, earnest, spiritual, and remarkable conception
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Muller, Hermann. Fertilisation of flowers;
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Murdoch, Ja. E. A plea for spoken language ;
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Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co. 320 p. D. cl.
90 c.

*■ An account of such elocutionary principles or methods
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useful.”

Osborn, H. S. Ancient Egypt in the light of
modern discoveries. Cin., Rob. Clarke & Co.
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Oyster epicure (The). A collation of authori-
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oyster. N. Y., White, Stokes & Allen. S.
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“ In no sense a cook-book, but a veritable literary bro-
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Standard.

Perkins, C. C. Historical hand-book of Italian
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” A new version of his ‘ Tuscan sculptors ’ and ‘ Italian
sculptors,’ the larger part having been rewritten, and the
whole carefully revised. The volume has the advantage of
new researches and is enriched with additional notes and
serviceable appendices.” — Athenceum.

Perry, B: F. Reminiscences of public men ;
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“ Reminiscences of John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jack-
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Philobiblos {pseud, for Alex. Ireland), comp.
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Lippincott. parch, bds., $2.

Pitman, Emma Raymond. Central Africa,
Japan and Fiji: a story of missionary enter-
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Soc. il. D. $1.25.

Putnam, G; Haven, Prose masterpieces from
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3 V. S. $3.75. _

r Very happily carried out as regards the choice of topics
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Richardson, Mrs. Abby Sage. Abelard and
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Riley, Ja. Whitcomb. [“ Benj. F. Johnson of
Boone,” pseud.'] The old swimmin’-hole, and
seven more poems. Indianapolis, G, C. Kite
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Poems in the Hoosier dialect, first contributed to the
Indianapolis Journal.

ScHAFF, Philip. A companion to the Greek
Testament and the English version ; with
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ScHAFF, Philip. History of the Christian Church.
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O. $4;

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Schiller, F: Works; from the German. House-
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Scott, Leader. The renaissance of art in Italy ;
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ScuDDER, M. L.,yr. Congested prices. Chic.,
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Seward, W: H. The diplomatic histoiy of the
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Shakespeare, W: The Riverside Shakespeare.
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Smart, Hawley. Two kisses. Phila., Peter-
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First published in Boston, 1877. It is “copyright,
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Spinoza, B. Ethic ; demonstrated in geomet-
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Stoddard, J: L. Red-letter days abroad. Bost.,
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Story, W. W. He and she ; or, a poet’s port-
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Sylvan city (A) ; or, quaint corners in Phila-
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A series of papers by Helen Campbell, Louise Stockton,
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Thackeray, Miss Annie J. \jio'iu Mrs. Rich-
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Miss Austen.— N. Y., Harper, 1883. pap.,

Q- 15 c. ^

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Thomas, E: A. Comprehensive dictionary of
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Thompson, Maurice. Songs of fair weather.
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Tincker, Mary Agnes. The jewel in the lotos :
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“ Is called a novel, but is really a series of sketches of
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Uhlhorn, Gerhard. Christian charity in the
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Underwood, Francis H. John Greenleaf Whit-
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United States. Bureau of Education. Circu-
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“ A great variety of opinions are given, and much new
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United States. The compiler in summing up his evidence,
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Van Rensselaer, M., D.D. In memoriam.
Sister Louise : the story of her life-work.
N. Y., Young. S. 75 c.

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vided wita proper food and first-class medical attendance.”
— Publishers' weekly.

Wainwright, S:, D.D. Scientific sophisms : a
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apes, and men. N. Y., Funk & Wagnalls.
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others on the subjects of evolution, transmutation, sponta-
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Waring, G: E.,7>. Horse stories. Reprinted
from Whip and Spur. Bost., Osgood. S.
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Weed, Thurlow. Life, inch his autobiography,
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Wheeler, D: Hilton. By-ways of literature.
N. Y., Funk & Wagnalls [1883]. D. pap.,
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Author lately editor of the New York Methodist, and
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Whittier, J; Greenleaf. The Bay of Seven
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Wilder, Burt G., M.D. Health notes for stu-
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Wilkinson, Sir']-. Gardner. The manners and
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Williams, S. Wells. The middle kingdom :
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N. Y., Appleton. D. (The Bishop Paddock
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Railroad. N. Y., Putnam’s Sons, maps and
il., sq. S. $1.25.

WooLWORTH, Ja. M. The cathedral in the
American church. N. Y., Dutton. S. $1.

“ Much historical information is given about the ‘ cathe-
dral system ’ in England and its growth in America, where
we already number twenty-four such edifices.”

Wright, E. Perceval, M.D. Animal life ; be-
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(General |lotes.

The Bibliotheque Nationale has intro-
duced “ une utile am61ioration” in providing
large fixed stands in the reading-room at which
dictionaries and catalogues can be consulted in-
stead of being carried off to the aesk of each
worker.

251 Y. M. C. Associations report libraries ag-
gregating 203,452 volumes, valued at $225,000.
the cbicf are in N. Y. (25,700), Lancaster, Pa,
(8000), Brooklyn (6574), Erie, Pa. (6ooo\ Phila-
delphia (5000), Boston (4425), San Francisco
(4000), Providence (4000).

A Bolivar library was founded in Paris, on
the hundredth anniversary of Bolivar’s birthday.
It is to contain works of every sort relating to or
published in Latin America. It has already 400
volumes and 40 newspapers issued in various
Latino-American slates.

Charles H. Brainard, formerly of this city,
is moving in the matter of a free public library
in Washington. He hopes to gain the assistance
of Mr. Corcoran in the matter. The large num-
ber of New Englanders and other Northerners
now in Washington would give support to such
an institution there.

At the BiBLioTHfeQUE Nationale, Paris, a
project has been entertained of covering the
Coti7' d' homieur with a glass roof, to cost a mill-
ion francs. The constant readers in the manu-
script room have protested against the change,
which by cutting off a large part of the light of
their room will render the deciphering of mss.,
which is never easy, almost impossible.

The death, on the 19th of Oct., is recorded of
Mr. J. F. Nicholls, F.S.A., the first Chief Li-
brarian of the Bristol Free Libraries. He was
the author of the “ Life of Sebastian Cabot,” pub-
lished in 1869, and joint author with Mr. John
Taylor, of the Bristol Museum and Library, of
“Bristol past and present.” Mr. Taylor is a
candidate for the vacant post of City Librarian
of Bristol.

Mr. Winsor delivered an address on the
opening of the new library building of the Uni-
versity of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Dec. 12, to
an audience of 2500 people, many of them
brought by special train from Detroit. There
were also addresses by the Chairman of the
Building Committee, the President of the U niver-
sity, and the Librarian. It is noteworthy as one
of the few occasions — we are not sure that it is
not the first occasion — in which librarians have
taken a leading part in the dedication of a li-
brary building.

An association of native Hindu scholars,
called the Datarya Bharat Karyalya, has for
several years been publishing, for gratuitous dis-
tribution to Sanskritists, learned societies, etc.,
translations of leading Sanskrit works. At pres-
ent an English translation of the Maha-Bharata
is publishing, primarily for gratuitous distribu-
tion. The manager and publisher of the associ-
ation, Babu Protaba Chandra Roy, has requested

me to send him a list of the literary and other
societies in America interested in Sanskrit liter-
ature, to which copies of his publication may be
sent. I shall be pleased, therefore, if any read-
er of the Nation having a knowledge of any such
society will send me its name and address for
transmission to India.

Wm. Emmette Coleman.

Presidio of San Francisco, Cal. —Nation.

The Mitcjiell Library, Glasgow, calls atten-
tion to the issue of its second million of volumes,
which was completed on the ist of September
in 808 working days. The first mibion, issued
when there were of course fewer books and few-
er readers, occupied 982 working days. We
hope libraries will not take to running races in
circulation, or to making issues against time —
so many million volumes in so many hundred
days. The public would become as tired of it
as they became of walking matches. It is very
remarkable that this million volumes consists in
so small a degree of fiction, only 7.73 per cent,
while history and biography are 21.77, and
sciences 20.12, and miscellaneous literature
28.31. The latter, to be sure, must include con-
siderable fiction in a periodical form. The pro-
portion, however, still remains unusual. — Nation.

The library has received for its Poet’s corner
2250 V. from Mr. Alexander Gardyne, a Scotch
resident in London. About one half of these are
new to the library, comprising many interest-
ing examples of early Glasgow and provincial
presses, and a few broadsides and chap-books of
special rarity. There is also included in the gift
the Commonplace Book of Mrs. Riddell, the
friend of Burns. Nearly the whole are enriched
with manuscript notes, by Mr. Gardyne him-
self, concerning the author or probable author
of what appears as anonymous, while in the
true spirit of a discriminating and intelligent
collector he has inserted in many of the books
some newspaper cutting having a close relation to
the contents of the book, ballad, or pamphlet,
with here and there an extra portrait or other
drawing.

Circumstances alter Cases. — 1. (Library
attendant to lady, who has just asked for “ Hos-
tetter’s Sublime Quotations”) : “ I’m very sorry,
ma’am, but Professor Smythe has just taken it
out for two weeks.” (Points to Prof. S. who is
vanishing with the volume in question under
his arm.)

Lady. — “ I’d like to know what reference li-
braries are for if the books are never in.” [Exit
indignant.]

H. Same lady, at small table, absorbed in
making notes from “ Poole’s Index,” which she
has had for three hours. Two or three people
seated and standing about, impatiently waiting
for a chance at the book. In background Prof.
S. talking to superintendent of library.

Prof. S. — “ Now I’d like to know what is the
use of a reference library if an old subscriber
can never get a chance at a book.” — Continent.

Moral : Get two copies of “ Poole’s Index.”

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open easily, and the page is in all respects a readable one and will not try the eyes.

Second: THE TEXT,

Mr. White faithfully followed the First Folio, and his Text was pronounced by the
North American Review to be the nearest attainable approach to the great dramatist's own,"
and by James Russell Lowell, “ the best extant text."

Third: THE NOTES,

These are very full and valuable, including citations from the annotations of the best
editors, beside the results of a large amount of original labor and thought. The Notes are
placed at the end of each Play, where they can be easily referred to by the Student, but do
not interrupt continuous reading of the poet’s text.

Fourth: ITS MODERATE PRICE,

The twelve volumes contain nearly Six Thousand Pages, and the set, handsomely
bound in cloth, is put up in a box, and published at the low price of Fifteen Dollars. It
can also be supplied in elegant half calf and full calf bindings.

Fifth: ITS COMPLETENESS,

This edition contains much additional matter not in any other, notably Mr. White’s
Memoir of Shakespeare and Essay on Shakespeare’s Genius, his Essay on the Rise and
Progress of the English Drama and Historical Sketch of Shakespeare’s Text. It is the only
edition which includes all of White's Notes, the fulness of which, wrote James Russell Lowell,
gives the edition, “ the value of a variorum.”

LITTLE, BROWN & CO., Publishers,

254 Washington Street, Boston, Mass.

AMERICAN

lifBRHRY

SIXTH ANMIAl MEETING

TO BE HELD AT BUFFALO, ON

TUESMY, WEDNESDM, THURSDM SND FRIDSY,
AUGUST 14-17, 1883.

PROGRAMME.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 14th.

FORENOON.

The Association will convene at 10 o’clock in the Executive Committee
Room of the Young Men’s Library, corner Main and Eagle Sts,, where it will be
welcomed by the President of the Young Men’s Association, Mr. Edward B, Smith.

Opening Address of the President, Justin Winsor, Librarian of ILarvard
University, which will include his report for the year on General Library Interests.

Report of the Secretary, Melvil Dewey, Chief Librarian of Columbia College.

Report of the Treasurer, J. L. Whitney, Boston Public Library.

Report of Cooperation Committee, C. A, Cutter, Librarian Boston Athen-
ceum. Chairman,

Report of Committee on the Distribution of Public Documents, S. S. Green,
Librarian Worcester Free Library, Chairman.

Report on the contemplated A. L. A. Catalogue, Melvil Dewey.

Report of Committee on Reception, James W. Ward, Librarian Grosvenor
Library, Chairman.

AFTERNOON.

Members are invited to visit the several Libraries of the city, and other places
of interest, among which the following may be named :

Young Men’s Library, corner Main and Eagle Sts,

Grosvenor Library, corner Washington St. and Broadway.

Young Men’s Christian Association, Library and Rooms, corner
Mohawk and Pearl Sts.

German Young Men’s Association, Library and Mu^c Hall, corner Main
and Edward Sts.

Buffalo Catholic Institute Library, corner Main and Chippewa Sts.

Mechanics’ Institute Library, and Fitch Institute Building, corner
Swan and Michigan Sts.

Law Library, City and County Hall.

Buffalo Historical Society, corner Main and Court Sts.

Society of Natural Sciences, Library and Museum, corner Main and
Eagle Sts.

Academy of Fine Arts, corner Eagle and Franklin Sts.

EVENING.

Report on Shelf-classification. F, B. Perkins, Librarian San Francisco
Public Library.

Report on Cataloguing. S. B. Noyes, Librarian Brooklyn Library.

Paper, entitled “A modern Proteus,” James L. Whitney, Principal Assist-
ant Librarian Boston Public Library.

Informal discussion of suggestions towards the project of a cooperative
general index to the standard English literature of criticism, biography, history and
social science.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15th.

MORNING.

Paper on “ Plans for supplements to the ‘ Index to periodical literature.’ ”
Wm. E. Poole, Librarian Chicago Public Library.

Paper on “ The special libraries of the Departments and Bureaus of the
U. S. Government, at Washington.” Weston Flint, Librarian of the Patent Office.

Report on Library architecture. J. Edmands, Librarian Philadelphia
Mercantile Library^

Paper on “ The arrangement on the shelves of the books in the N. Y. State
Library. H. A. Homes, Librarian.

Paper on “ The arrangement of the States (of the United States) and their
notation in a system of library classification.” C. A. Cutter, Librarian Boston
AthencEum.

AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

Excursion down the Niagara River, and reception at the Falconwood Club
House, on Grand Island.

THURSDAY, AUGUST i6th.

FORENOON.

Report on Fiction in public libraries. Mellen Chamberlain, Librarian
Boston Public Library.

Paper on “ The Buffalo public library in 1983.” C. A. Cutter, Librarian
Boston Athenaum.

Report on The reading of the young. Miss Mary A. Bean, Librarian
Brookline Public Library.

Paper on “The usefulness of libraries in small towns.” Miss Theresa
H. West, Deputy Librarian Mihuaukee Public Library.

AFTERNOON.

Reports and discussion on the Cooperation of public libraries and public
schools ; a Symposium, in which S. S. Green, Worcester Public Library., W. F.
Poole, Chicago Public Library, W. E. Foster, Providence Public Library, C. W.
Merrill, Cincinnati Public Library, K. A. Linderfelt, Milwaukee Public Library,
and others will take part.

EVENING.

Remarks on “ The contribution of American libraries to the early carto-
graphical history of America,” with blackboard illustrations. Justin Winsor, Libra-
rian Harvard University.

Paper on “ New building and plans of the Columbia College Libraries.”
Melvil Dewey, Chief Librarian.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 17th.

FORENOON.

Report on Aids to readers. W. E. Foster, Librarian Providence Public
Library.

Paper on “ State Libraries, their management and support.” Guy A. Brown,
Librarian State Library of Nebraska.

Paper on “Two Swedish libraries.” Miss Mary A. Browne.

Closing business of the Convention.

AFTERNOON.

Excursion to Niagara Falls.

For members who wish to remain at Niagara Falls a few days reduced
hotel rates have been secured, as follows: International Hotel, ^3 per day; Spencer
House, $2.50.

HOTEL.

During- their stay in Buffalo, members are recommended to make their head-
quarters at the Genesee House, corner Main and Genesee Streets, -where they are
offered a reduction of rate from ^4 to ^3 per day.

RAILROADS.

The only railroad arrangements which it has been found practicable to make
are the following : —

Members coming from Chicago or intermediate points, over the Lake Shore
and Michigan Southern Railway, can purchase return tickets at Buffalo for one-third
the regular fare.

Tickets from New York to Buffalo and return, via Delaware, Lackawana
and Western Railway, can be procured by members for ^11.55, on remitting (by
draft or P. O. money order) to J. N. Lamed, Y. M. Library, Buffalo.

Trains on the D. L. & W. Railway leave Jersey City at 9 a.m. and 7 p.m.,
arriving at Buffalo respectively at 1 1 p.m. and 1 1 a.m.

OFFICERS.

President :

Justin Winsor, Librarian Harvard University.

Vice-Presidents :

W. F. Poole, Librarian Chicago Public Library.

H. A. Homes, Librarian New York State Library.

Lloyd P. Smith, Librarian Philadelphia Library Company.

D. C. Gilman, President Johns Hopkins University.

Julius Dexter, Ohio Historical and Philosophical Society.

Secretary :

Melvil Dewey, University Librarian, Columbia College Libraries.
Treasurer :

James L. Whitney, Bo'^ton Public Library.

Finance Committee.

S. S Green, Librarian Worcester Free Public Library.

J. N. Larned, Superintendent Young Men’s Library, Buffalo.

W. E. Foster, Librarian Providence Public Library.

Co-operation Committee.

C. A. Cutter, Librarian Boston Athenaeum.

S. H. ScuDDER, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

C. B. Tillinghast, Assistant Librarian Mass. State Library.

Councillors.

J. S. Billings, R. R. Bowker, M. Chamberlain, Robert Clarke,
F. M. Crunden, j. N. Dyer, J. Eaton, J. Eumands, Weston Flint,
Miss C. M. Hewins, S. B. Noyes, F. B. Perkins, Miss Lucy Stevens,
Addison Van Name.

COMMITTEES ON THE ANNUAL MEETING, 1883.

Reception and Arrangements. — ^Jam^s W. Ward, E. B. Smith, J. Jewett,
T. Kean, F. M. Hollister, W. S. Bissell, D. H. McMillen, H. A.
Richmond, E. T. Evans, J. H. Cowing, P. Paul, E. S. Wheeler,
J. N. Earned.

Programme.—]. N. Earned, C. A. Cutter, J. W. Ward.

PETER PAUL & BRO., PRINTERS, 863 MAIN STREET, BUFFALO.

Xibrarp :^sgociatton of tl)e BntteD
BmgDom.

13, South Square, Gray’s Inn, London,

'jth August^ 1883.

Dear Sir,

HE Sixth Annual Meeting of the Association will be held at
the Free Public Library, Liverpool, on Tuesday, the nth of
September next, and three following days. The chair will be
taken by our President, Sir James Picton, F.S.A., Chairman
of the Liverpool Free Public Libraries Committee.

Reports will be laid before the Meeting by the Council and by the
Committees appointed to prepare Illustrations to the Cataloguing Rules of
the Association and to consider the question of Size Notation. It is proposed
to pay special attention to the subject of Classification. Papers will be read
on various questions relating to Library Administration and Bibliography.

The Council will be glad to receive offers of papers, intimation of which
should be forwarded to the Hon. Secretary as early as possible. The papers
themselves must be submitted for approval by the Council not later than
the 31st of August.

The Local Committee at' Liverpool propose to hold an Exhibition of
Objects and Appliances illustrating the Working Arrangements, &c., of
Libraries in all their departments, and the Council as well as the Local
Committee invite your kind co-operation in making the Exhibition as
complete and useful as possible. Exhibits will be required not later than
September 4th. Further particulars may be obtained of the Hon. Secs, to
the Local Committee (Mr. P. Cowell and Mr. W. J. Stewart), Free ^Public
Library, Liverpool.

The Council will be glad to be favoured with the earliest convenient
notice qf your intention to attend this Meeting, and you will then be kept
duly informed of the local and other arrangements. If you are not already a
member of the Association, I may inform you that you can be proposed at
the Liverpool Meeting for immediate election. The subscription for the year
(iOJ‘. 6d) will entitle you to a copy of the Annual Transactions and all the
privileges of membership.

Yours very faithfully,

Ernest C. Thomas,

(Late Librarian of the Oxford Union Society,)
Hon, Sec.

LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF THE
UNITED KINGDOM.

SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING, HELD AT LIVERPOOL,

AT THE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY,
SEPTEMBER iithy 12//2, i2,th, and 14M, 1883.

ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS.

First Sitting, Tuesday Morning, September iitk, at g. 45 for 10.

The Chair will be taken by the President, Sir James Picton,
F.S.A., Chairman of the Free Library, Museum, and
Art Gallery Committee, Liverpool.

The Council will propose for immediate election any non-librarian who may
have been unable to comply with the prescribed rule as to one month’s previous
nomination.

President’s Address.

Report of the Council; with the Treasurer’s and Auditors’ Report.
Resolutions to adopt the Reports.

The Rise and Growth of Public Libraries in America ; by Mr. T. E. Stephens,
member of the Liverpool Library, Museum, and Arts Committee.

Origin and History of some Liverpool Libraries; by Mr. Peter Cowell,
librarian of the Free Public Library, Liverpool.

(Interval from 12.30 to i.)

jf ir^t — continued.

Second Sittings Tuesday Afternoon^ at i.

Chinese Libraries ; by Professor R. K. Douglas, assistant-keeper of Printed Books,
British Museum.

Founders of Libraries: James Lenox; by Mr. Henry Stevens.

[At 3 p.m. an excursion will be made to Knowsley Hall to inspect the Library, &c.,
by permission of the Right Hon. the Earl of Derby.

At 8 p.m. a Reception and Soiree will be held by the Library, Museum, and Arts
Committee in the Free Library, Museum, and Art Gallery.]

^Econti

Third Sitting., Wedfiesday Morning, at g. 4^.

Old Church and School Libraries of Lancashire; by Chancellor R. C.
Christie.

Functions and Operations of the Free Library System; by Mr. John Lovell.
Report on Illustrations to Cataloguing Rules.

(Interval from 12.30 to i.)

Fourth Sitting, Wednesday Afternoon, at i.

Library Pests ; by Mr. Samuel Smith, librarian of the Public Library and Hastings
Museum, Worcester.

Free Library Buildings, their Arrangement and Fittings; by Mr. William
Henman, A.R.I.B.A.

[At 3 p.m. there will be an excursion on the River Mersey to inspect the Docks, &c.
The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board have kindly placed their steamer “Vigilant”
at the service of the Association.

Dinner in the Adelphi Hotel at 6.45 to the Members of the Association by the
Local Committee.]

Fifth Sitting^ Thursday Mornings at 9.45.

Starved Free Libraries; by Mr. W. R. Credland, sub-librarian of the Central
Free Library, Manchester.

A Proposed System of Differential Rating for Free Libraries; by Mr.
Thomas Formby, sub -librarian of the Free Public Library, Liverpool.

Discussmi.

Technical Literature and Free Public Libraries; by Mr. John Southward.
(Interval from 12.30 to i.)

Sixth Sittings Thursday Afternoon, at i.

Early Laws and Regulations concerning Books ; by Mr. Cornelius Walford.
Report on Size-Notation.

[At 3 visits will be paid to various Local Libraries, Buildings, Works, &c., of which
due notice will be given.

A party of forty members will visit Haigh Hall, Wigan, by invitation of the Right
Hon. the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, to inspect the Library, &c.

His Worship the Mayor of Liverpool has issued invitations to a Dinner at the Town
Hall at 6.45 p.m.]

jlfourtg ^ap.

Seventh Sitting, Ftdday Morning, 9.45.

Q : AN Experiment in Bibliology ; by Mr. Ernest C. Thomas.

Election of Officers.

Motions : and other Private Business.

3 p.m. visits will be paid to various local places of interest, of which due notice
will be given. A second party of forty members will visit Haigh Hall, at the invitation
of the Right Hon. the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres.]

The Meetings will be held in the Lecture Theatre of the Free Public Library,
William Brown Street.

An Exhibition of Plain and Ornamental Bookbindings, Plans of Library Buildings,
and various Objects illustrating the Working and Management of Libraries, will be on
view during the meeting in the Upper Library, adjoining the Lecture Theatre.

Members are particularly requested to register their names with the Secretaries as
early as possible, and to obtain from Mr. Cowell on the morning of the Meeting, or the
evening before, the local ticket of membership, which will contain a small map,
together with information on various matters connected with the Meeting, and on
places which will be thrown open for the pleasure and convenience of members.

Communications on local matters may be addressed to Mr. Peter Cowell.

Letters for the Hon. Secretary may be addressed after Saturday, September
8th, to Liverpool.

ERNEST C. THOMAS,

13, South Square^ Gray's Inn, IV. C.

Xibrarp :^2;e;ociattoti of tl)e United
i^rngdom.

13, South Square, Gray’s Inn, London,

7M Au^ttst, 1883.

Dear Sir,

The Local Committee at Liverpool propose to hold an Exhibition of
Objects and Appliances illustrating the Working Arrangements, &c., of
Libraries in all their departments, and the Council as well as the Local
Committee invite your kind co-operation in making the Exhibition as
complete and useful as possible. Exhibits will be required not later than
September 4th. Further particulars may be obtained of the Hon. Secs, to
the Local Committee (Mr. P. Cowell and Mr. W. J. Stewart), PTee Public
Library, Liverpool.

The Council will be glad to be favoured with the earliest convenient
notice of your intention to attend this Meeting, and you will then be kept
duly informed of the local and other arrangements. If you are not already a
member of the Association, I may inform you that you can be proposed at
the Liverpool Meeting for immediate election. The subscription for the year
(lOi". 6d.) will entitle you to a copy of the Annual Transactions and all the
privileges of membership.

Yours very faithfully,

Ernest C. Thomas,

(Late Librarian of the Oxford Union Society,)
Hon. Sec.

;; *

INDEX.

LIBRARY JOURNAL, V. 8. JAN.-DEC., 1883.

The superior figures tell the exact place on the page, the first figure which column, the second how far down in
ninths. 129II means page 129, first column, one-ninth from top to bottom.

The colon after an initial of a given name, means that it is the most common name beginning with that initial,
e.g.. A; means Augustus ; B; Benjamin; C; Charles; D; David; E: Edward; F; Frederick; G: George; H; Henry;
I; Isaac; J; John; K: Karl; L: Louis; M; Mark; N: Nicholas; O: Otto; P: Peter; R; Richard; S: Samuel; T: Thomas;
W: William; C.. Charlotte; E.. Elizabeth; F.. P'anny; G.. Grace; H,. Helen; J.. Jane; K.. Katharine, Kate;
L.. Louisa; M.. Mary; S.. Sarah.

By the use of few capitals, proper names and capitalized words are made more prominent.

By free use of abbreviations, mostly self-explanatory, more references are given in the same space. The
apostrophe to mark omissions of letters in abbreviations is disregarded as unnecessary.

The index to Pseudonyms and Anonyms follows this.

Aargauische Kantonsbibliothek.
Catlg., 16712.

Abbe, Prof. Cleveland. Bibliog. of
signal service, 1991'-*.

Abbeville, Communal Lib. of, (All-
chin) 128^^.

Abbott, Jacob, 34321-22.

Aberdeen, works pub. in, (Edmond)
323IG; necessity for free pub. lib.
in, (Milne) 33822.

Acaddmie Roy. de Belgique, Tables
gen. du Recueil des bulletins, 324I6.

Academy of Nat. Sci., Phila., its li-
brary, 269I8.

Adam, G. M., testimonials in favor
of, 32124.

Adams, C: Francis, Jr., 84I®; the
pub. library and the pub. schools,
7526.

Adams, Dr. H. B., his arrangement
of the historical lib. at John Hop-
kins Univ., 239I4-11.

Adams, Miss H.. A., 30312; reading
for the young, 22426-225*2.

Adams, H: Carter, lect. on political
economy, 234*4.

Adams, J; Quincy, ref. list on, 2723.

Adler, Dr. Hermann, 155*2.

Advertisements in catalogs, 82*6.

Advocate’s Library, Edin., to be en-
larged, i62*.

^stheticism, ref. list on, 272*.

Afghanistan, ref. list on, 272*.

Africa, ref. lists on, 2724.

Agassiz Association, 221*2.

Aids, library, (Green) 1492^; and
guides to readers, 233-245 ; at Low-
ell, 77*6-78*2 ; to circulation and use
of books, 24i*2-*6; in reference de-
partment, 241*2-242*6; in connection
with courses of study, 242*6-244*2.

Aisne, bibliog. of, (Perin) 3392*.

Albany, bibliog. of, (Munsell) 79*6,
234^^

Alfabeting of De Amicis, Ten Brink,
etc., 82*2.*8.

Alger, Horatio, y^., reading for the
young, 1 1 3*6- *6.

Allacci, Leone, Transporto della Bib-
lioteca Palatina, 492*.

Allain, Ahhe Ernest. Dern. travaux
sur I’hist. de I’instruction primaire,
13022.

Allan, Jessie, 303*2.

Allchin, Arthur, Communal Lib. of
Abbeville, 1282*.

Alsace, bibliog. of, (Gaidoz et Sebil-
lot) 923.

America bibliog. of, (Brinton) 792®;
(Arana) 7922-28^ 236*2; (Clarke)
234*6; (Sabin) 2342“; ref. lists on,
2726-28*2.

American Academy, 103*6.

American Antiq. Soc., pub. of, (Paine)
*3o'^> 13*^*’; index to the proceed-
ings of, (Salisbury) 131*6.

American catalog, 1492'’, 2492G.

American educational catlg., 134*®.

American English, bibliog. of, (Tuck-
er) 35*8.

American history, course of reading
on, 238*6.

American languages, bibliog. of,
(Platzmann) 8o*9.

American Lib. Assoc., annual meeting
announced, 71*6-**; its collections
saved from fire, 256**; its founda-
tion, 2942*; its vote condemning the
proposed plan of the Library of
Congress, 26926. See also Buffalo;
Committee.

A. L. A. catalog, 2492*, 260*8-26326.

American local hist., index to, no**, 26.

Americans, the Athenaeum on their
taste for bibliography, 23*6-2422.

Ames, Miss H. H., catalogues and
select books for Ames L., 76*8,
172**; reading for the young,
22626.

Ames, Rev. J. G., 258*6, 259*2; rpt. on
pub. docs, 8**; binding pub. docs.,
10726.26.

Ames Library, North Easton, Mass.,
7617-2*; catlg., i7i**-*2.

Amherst College, 47*8, 197*3.

Andrd, MaJ., bibliog of, (Campbell)
32226.

Anglim &Co., pub. bulletin of docs.,
34124.

Angling, bibliog. of, (Westwood and
Satchell) 5426; (Bartlett) 234*6.

Animaliculture, bibliog. of, (Szelins-
ki) 150*3.

Annuario del cuerpo fac. de archive-
ros, etc., 3235.

Anonyms, (Haynes) 16*6; bibliog. of,
(Arana) 5520 ; (Halkett and Laing)
83*6; aids about, 23527-236*4.

Anonyms and pseudonyms, 16, 40, 55,

(333)

Anthropometry, bibliog. of, (Ed-
mond) 323*6.

Antiquaries, Annuario, 3225.

Appleton’s journal, its index, 7323.

Apprentices’ L., N. Y., improvement
in the readers, 61*2; its good work,
7128.

Arabian historians, (Wiistenfeld) $4^®-

Arana, Diego Barros, Bibliog. de
anonimas i seudonimas, 5526, 7927-28^
236*2.

Archer, W., 340*8; essential features
of a library building, 76*6, 23823.

Architecture, ref. list on, 28*2, 234**.

Architecture, Lib. See Buildings.

Archives, Annuario, 3226.

Archivio paleografico italiano, 12**.

Ariosto, project of collecting books
rel. to, (A Gennari) 8*4.

Armington, H. E., the Sunday ques-
tion in literature, 54**.

Arnold, Matthew, ref. list on, 28*2.

Arrangement of books, 212*6-24; of
libraries, 238*2-2392*; of Nebraska
State Lib., 246*6.**. a/5£) Classifi-

cation.

Art, ref. lists on, 28*6.

Art catalogues, illustrated, 51*6.

Ashbee, E. W., the Index Soc., 324*6.

Ashburnham Lib., 1492*; reason for
sale of, 11926-20; the mss., (Delisle)
79*2; (Thimm) 130*6.

Assistants, library, 277*6-278**, 29i**-24;
the Bodleian a training-school for,
6i2*-27; low pay vs. high pay, 78*6-**.

Assurance. See Insurance.

Assyria, libraries of, 8**, 79*®, 12826.

Astor, J; Jacob, founds the AstorLib.,
165*6.

Astor Lib., 19726; mutilation of books
in, 75**-*®; and Lenox Lib., 1282*;
catalogue, 802*; to be open in the
evening, 138*6.

Astronomy, ref. list on, 28**.

Auckland, Sir G. Grey presents a lib.
to, l622.

Authors, century of, (Cushing) 237*8.

Authors wanted, 155*6-**.

Axon, W. E. A., i6623; Collab. on
Poole’s Index, 196*6.

Azeglio, Massimo d’, bibliog. of, (Vis-
mara) 79*®.

Babjdonia, libraries of, 87, 79*®, 12826.

Bacchi della Lega, Alberto, Indice
gen. della Bibliog. dantesca, 34026.

334

THE LIBRARY JOURNAL.

The index to Pseudonyms and Anonyms follows this.

Bahd^r, K: Die deutsche Philologie Biblioth^que du Roi, Paris, anciens Books always of value, 33”-i8.

a Grundriss, 54'

Bain, Ja., Jr., 30312.

Baird, Spencer F., 259^^; rpt, on pub.
docs., 81*.

Balbo, Cesare, bibliog. of, (Vismara)

Baftimore, Pratt Lib., 16422.

Baluze, bibliog. of, (Page) 35*3.

Bancroft Library, (S. T.) 9*“.

Barbier, V., Monog. hist, de la bibl.
de Chamb^ry, 32i2fi.

Barbour, J; H., 6i3,i"’, 27920 ;cobperates
with Mr. Stetson, 47*®; collab. on
Poole’s Index, 19620.

Barnard, C :, on reading for the young,
11312.

Barnard, F: A. P., School of lib. econ-
omy in con. with Columbia Coll.
Libs., 14921.

Bartlett, J : Catlg. of books on angling,
234i-''>.

Barton, E. M., 3031®.

Barton Lib. See Boston P. L.

Bassett, H. F., extract from letter,
27929.

Batines, Colomb de, 34020.

Beaconsfield, B; Disraeli, Lord, ref.
list on, 2S22.

Bean, Emma J., 303**.

Bean, M.. A., 281*0, 28429,276**, 303**;
rpt. on the reading of the young,
2I7*'’-22724; Com. on Resolutions,
27523 ; yearly reporter on reading of
the young, 305'*.

Beardsley, I. L. ,30313; catlg. of Cleve-
land P. L., 17024-^8; reading for the
young, 22422-2.'>.

Beauchamps, J. de, bibliog. raisonnde
et pratique, 342*.

Beaumarchais, P. A. C. de, bibliog.
of, (Cordier) 130’*, 150**.

Beckwith, D; , 30314.

Beddoe, — , Gilstrap Free Library,
75"' •

Begole, Gov. Josiah W., renominates
Mrs. Tenney, 7*0.

Beijers, J. L., Utrecht, 1092*.

Belgian patents, zSo**.

Bell, Alexander G., bibliog. of elec-
tricity, 32310.

Benton, Joel, concordance to Emer-
son’s poetry, 237**.

Berendt, Dr. C. H., his ms. biblio-
theca mexicana, 802*.

Berlioz, Hector, a careless librarian,
771*.

Berwick (Da.) Lib., extract from rpt.,
1282“.

Bible, ref. list on, 28*4; to be excluded
from catlg. of Paris municipal libs.,
15028.

Bibles, German illustrated, bibliog.
of, (Muther) 3392*.

Bibliografies, general, Bibliog. rais.
et prat., (Beauchamp et Rouveyre)
3428; Lib. manual, (Slater) 5424;
Vallee’s Bibliog. des bibliog. re-
viewed, (Cutter) 10429; Bibliog.,
theorie en praktijk, (Meulen) 33822.

Bibliografy, American taste for,
23*9-3422; in 1SS2, (Tedder) 5124-28;
lectures on, at Univ. of Mich.,
p2**-*8; instruction in, 2852'-2S6**.

Bibliografy, (Cutter) 9, 35, 54, 79,
100, 130, 150, 322, 339.
iliographies, bibliog. des, (Vall6e)

ctlgs. de livres, (Delisle) no*®.

Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, 75*®,
3382®; fotografic room in, 6i*®-**;
open in the evening, 138'* ; has ar-
ranged and bound its family deeds,
*SS‘'‘’-^*; examination of catalogers,
1 19*3 *4 ; bequest to, 330*2 ; the medical
collection compared with the lib. of
theU.S. Surgeon General’s office,
20o’3-*C; stands in reading-room for

Books as a decoration, 3212®.

Books for children, 326**-*3.

Books of all time, (Leypoldt) 238*®.
Bookseller and stationer, 268*4-25.
Bordeaux, bibliog. of travellers to,
(Celeste) 10924.

B irnhak, C. Lexikon d. allgem. Lit-
teraturgeschichte, 237**.
Birnmuller, F. Biog. Schriftsteller-
Lexikon der Gegenwart, 237**.

diet, and catlg., 350** ; project to cov- Bossange. Ma bibliotheque fran9aise,
Boston, statistics of libs.

er Cour d’honneur with
roof, 350*®.

Bibliotheque Royale, Brussels, 5329;
open in the evening, 138*®.

Bigelow Free P. L.^ Clinton, Mass.,
extract from rpt., 1292®.

Billiard room, not attached to lib. in
Kansas City, 162*.

Billings, Ho71. F; , gift to Vermont
Univ., 61*3.

Billings, Dr. J: S., 303**; Vol. 3 of
Catlg. U. S. Surg. Gen’s office lib.,
167*3; Catlg. U. S. Surg. Gen. Lib.,
1672® ; libraries in Washington, 199*2-
20o29; discussion on it, 269*®-23 ; Com.
on Pub. Docs., 258** ; distrib. of pub.
docs., 259*9-260*4 ; A. L. A. catlg.,
263*3, *5; added to Com. on A. L. A.
catalog, 263*®; an index of essays,
267*3-15,25; Com. on an essay index,
268*4; lib. architecture, 2732*, 2782*;
Com. on Lib. of Congress, 2742* ; duty
on books, 27922; school of lib. econo-
my, 29o2'-22; motions, 29023*38^ 2922®;
on school for librarians, 294*4.*®;
Councillor, 305**; medical bibliog.,
32224.

Binding, standard covers for tempo-
rary, (B; P. Mann) 6*®-7** ; at the
Bodleian, 16*2; injured by gas, 51*®;
injured by gas and heat in Merc,
Lib., N. V,, 12929-130*1 ; book-bind-
ing, (Matthews) 76** ; specifications
for (Soldan) io6'4-io7*®; catlg. of
remarkable bindings, (Quaritch)

I3o2®-28.

Biography, ref. lists on, 28*®.

Birmingham P. L., new building.

ref. list on, 28*®; reading In the
schools, 58**-*9; proposal of a union
library building, 103*2-29.

Boston Athenaeum, 47*8, 49**, 751-®,
103**, 112*4, 19712, 240*3; prints “list
of additions ” from cards, 41*®; cata-
loging and shelving, 7622; its
charging system used in the Mid-
dlesex Mech. Assoc., 77*®; “Le dic-
tionnaire general des catalogues,”
7924; (periodicals) taken, 1102*; open
in the evening, 138**-*®; catlg.,
167*4 *6; catlg. compared with Pea-
body Institute catlg., 16823-1692*;
catlg. too costly for private lib., 3352® ;
annotated book-list, 1712*, 23724; how
to get books, (Cutter) 2382®; a train-
ing school for libns., 288*9-28-290*2;
essays indexed in its catlg., 335*®;
use of its ms, suppl. in preparing
index of essays, 3352*.

Boston P. L., io24, 4120.27^ 4915^ 24028,
242*®; letter of Mr. Hubbard, 8*4; a
vandal’s suggestion, (Omar) 75*4.*®,
catlg., 8o2®, 8i22; and the children
(Hubbard) 7528; bulletin, no**, 171'
34024; and children, 218*2-219*®; a
alysis in the catlg., iii27-ii2*4; new
building, 119*2, 2022®-29; catlg. of
South End Branch, and Barton Lib.,
17123; new building assured, 16422;
open in the evening, 138*8; initial
bibliographical card, 2392®; scrap-
book, 24022; assistant to aid readers,
24324-25; a training school for libns.,
2S8*®.

2oi2®-202*®; rept. of sub-corn., 3212®. Bosworth, Mrs. E. M., 2792®.

Biscoe, W. S., 6*3, *s, 303*4; cooperates Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich, char-
with Mr. Stetson, 47**; collab. on acters in, 5523.

Poole’s Index, 197** ; on an index of Bouche-Leclercq, A. Hist, de la di-
essays, 26624; on use of monthly pe- vination dans I’antiquite, i3;o22.
riodical index. 260*®; leaves Am- " -- --

riodical index, 269*®; leaves Am-
herst Col. L., and goes to Columbia
Col. L., 330*9-2*.

Bissell, W. S., Com. on Annual Meet-
ing, 1883, 305*8.

Blaisdell, Frank C., 17428.

Blake, W; , ref. list, on, 28*®.

Blunders in cataloging, 7** *®, 542®-
55**, lo8*2-*8.

Bodleian Lib., 75*®, (Prime) 8*®; im-
provements in, 122® ,27; training-
school for library-assistants, 6124-27 ;
cataloging rules, 5123, 264’*, 298*2-
30124; notice sent to special students
of the addition of books in their line,
iii2C; open in the evening, 138*®;
catlg., 16627 ; assistance to readers by
the librarian, 24228; its building,

Boehmer, G: H,

Bowen, H. Courthope. Hist, novels
and tales, 238*8.

Bowker, R. R., 29623, 303*®; indexing
Brit, and Amer. portraits, 151 *4 ; work
of 19th century librarian for libra-
rian of the 20th, 247-250; duty on
books, 279*4 *8; the visit of the Eng-
lish librarians to America in 1884,
28o2®-28; moves vote of thanks to
Mr. Poole, 392*4; the next meeting,
29125; motion, 2912*; transliteration,
293**; school for librarians, 294*®;
motion, 2942®; Councillor, 305**.
Boys’ reading, 32623-26.

Bradshaw, H: , 247*®, 2502®.

Brahmig, Bernh. Ratgeber fiir Mu-
siker, 54*®.

Brainard, C: H., free pub. lib. in
Washington, 350*4.

hist.' of the Smith- Brander Lib., plan of, 322**.

Bibliophile, un mauvais, 87’®.

Bibliopolist notes, 10922.

BibliotecaAmbrosiana, Milan, trained Bolivar Lib., founded in Paris, 350*8.

librarians in the, 342®. Bolton, ProJ H. Carrington. Catlg.

Biblioteca Nacional, Lima, carried off of scientific and tecbnical pub.,
by Chilians, 14727, no®?, 237*3.

Biblioteca Naz. di Palermo, 4128-29; Bonaventura, 5/., bibliog. of, 3523.

ricordo del primo centenario, 10822. Book lovers’ enchiridion, 238*®.
Bibliotheque del’HoteldeVille, Paris, Book-illustration, (Carr) 54**.

Book-thirst, 75**’*®.

Bibliotheque des pr6dicateurs, table Bookmart, The, 130*4.
gen6rale, 237*®. Book trade, (Meulen) 33822.

sonian exchanges, 492®; quarterly Brantome, P. de B. de, index to his
lists of the pubs, of the U. S., 341®®. ^ QSuvres, 334'^-

Bohn, Emil. Bibliog. d. Musik-Druck-
werke, 342®, loq'^s.

Bohn, H: G; his “ Lowndes

Brentano, Mr., 173*®-*®.

Bride, Dr. T. F., 53*3.

Bridgeport P. L., bequest to, 412®,
extract from rpt., 1282*.

Briggs, C: A; , catlg. of books of ref.,

339*8,

Brinton, D: G. Current Amer. bibliog.,

792®.

Briouze, bibliog. of Canton of, (Le
Vavasseur) 15021, 3392®.

Bristol (R. I.) P. L., 24124.

British Museum, 75*“; catalog, 232*;
not complete, 33*5; printing of catlg.

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The index to Pseudonyms and

335

follows this.

51*3, i66>‘‘-33, (Garnett) 3^0*'*; liurns, llol)erts, ref. list on, 28"’.
hburnham mss., 52^3; reading- Burritt, Elihu, ref. list on, 28”.

291^3.2,35 Councillor, 305"; yearly re-
porter on fiction, 3o5'3.

room crowded, 61^*', open in the Butler, M., Yonkers Lib., 33033. Chamb^ry, Biblioth^rque de, mono-
evening, 138*3 ; Mr. Garrett’s services .—....i.;,. u:,.* ^

in the reading-room, 1383^-33; extract C., C. A. See Cutter, C; A,
from rptj;, i493'i-37; entry under pre- C., F. G., 34323.
fixes, i5o3'>-3«; the medical collection C., H. T. See Carr, II. T.
compared with the lib. of the U. S. Cabot, J: and Sebast., bil
Surgeon’s office, 19938-200***; lib. and (Harr'isse) 35*3, 8o*3, 2343'*.
reading-room of, (Dziatzko) 2382*; Cajetan, Andryeevitch Kossovich,
review of Dziatzko, (Stevens) 2383**; (H. W.) 76*5.

reading-room for newspapers, peri- Calliopean Soc.’s library, 4125.
odicals, etc,, to be built, 2382* ; offi- Cambridge (Mass.) P. L., children’s
cial titles in the, 2482®; first vol. of reading, 22i2,-222'",
catlg. of Eng. books before 1640 Campbell, C: A,, bibliog. of Maj.
printed, 324** ; completion of printed Andr^, 32225.

graphic hist., (Barbier) 321*
Chambord, de, bibliog, of, 32225.

Chandler, Miss, on children’s reading,
222*«.2«.

bibliog. of. Changed titles, 6o28-2», 9120.20^ 1182*,
*3^***, (Whitney) 172-193,

268*''-25, 34121-22.

Channing, W: Ellery, ref. list on, 28*8.
Charging, (Kite) 4028-41 1?; query
about, 1622 ; answer, 4028-4113; Bost.,
Ath. system used in Middlesex
Mech. Assoc., 7735.

^ , . . . . „ Charlemagne, reading on, 5625-20.

catlg, probable, 249*8; Luther cen- Canisius College, vote of thanks to, Chartres, bibliog. of, (Merlet) 5422.
tenary, 3302^. 292'*. Chaucer, G., ref. list on, 28*0; bibliog.

Brivois, Jules, Guide de I’amateur, Canterbury (£^;/jr.) p. L., its blunder- of, 32226.

35**. ing catalog., 713-10. Chemistry, course of reading in,

Brookline P. L., reading of the young, Cantu, C., bibliog. of, (Vismara) 7923. (Remsen) 10928.

22538-2271*; bulletin, 23722; dupli- Cape of Good Hope, Sir G. Grey pre- Chicago P. L., 19723; statistics, 752*;

cates of cyclopaedias, etc., 241*0. sents a lib. to, 1622. extract from rpt., i29*5’25; catlg.,

Brooklyn, N. Y., its reading, 11322-23. Card catlgs., new device for, 15221-25; 17028; finding-lists, 17125127; and the

Brooklyn Lib., 19723, 242*^; music bul- used by the public, 24o*L*5. ' ’ "

letin, no. i, I2i5; bulletin no. 16, Carlyle, T: , ref. lists on, 28*' ; quotedj
1215; no. 17, 8o25; Mr. Low rec- 166*8, 281*3.

ommends making it a public li- Carlyle collection in Harv. Coll. Lib.,
brary, 3228; gifts to, 6122; catlg. (Lane) 3528.

8i23, 16928, 170*325; (Noyes) 12728- Carmena y Millan, L. Bibliog. de la Children, reading for, (Theden) 12**,

128*0; separate room for ladies, tauromaquia, 150*6. 5512; (Hevvins) 7915; ref. list on

23829; use of, for reference increas- Carpenter, W: H: on ms. of trial of their training, 28*0; literature for
ing, 24134; extract from rpt., 12828- D. Flade for witchcraft, 8o*4.

essays indexed in its catlg., Carr, H: J., 303*5; asks for best charg-

s, 17125.27; .
schools, 21723-218*6, 28I-284 ; periodi-
cals in Poole’s Index, 237**; more
room needed, 239*0; improved use
of, 242*5; lectures by Mr. Poole,

335 16

Brooklyn Lib. Building Fund Assoc.

of the Eastern District, 127*3-128***.
Brown, Francis. Course of reading
on theology, 79"^'

ing system, i6‘*;the answer, 4028-
41*3 ; edit, remarks on his index,
23*6-18; index to reference lists, 27*2-
3235, 23538; school of lib. economy,
29023-25 ■>'>

Brown, Guy A., 289*5, 303*^; state Carr, J. Comyns. Book illustration, old
libs., 245-247; discussion on it, and new, 54* '

295*5-29628.

Brown, J: Carter, his library, 7624.
Brown Univ. Lib., its building,
274*3-22.

the young, (Hewins) 36-7, 56-8, 84-7,
112-4, 132-4. 151-2, 325-6, 342-4; what
the school children read, 4924-5015;
a child’s lib., 5636-5715, 84*8; books
for young people, 11 228-11 321; read-
ing rooms for, 11411-15; children in
the lib. of 19S3, (Cutter) 21613-218;
report on the reading of the young,
(Bean) 217-227; books for, 32611-14;
children’s books in 1700, 343^1-34412.
See also Schools.

Chili carries off the Peruvian
National Library, 1472-.

Carrel, F. Poingdestre, book prohi-
bitions of the Church of Rome, 79*2;

Marseilles Lib., 14922.

, , Catacombs, ref. list on, 28*8. j , •

Browne, James D., a bibliog. diet, of Cataloging, more crudities of the cheap Chinese, ref. lists on, 2S2*.

musicians, 33928. cataloger, 727-29; bow to compile a Chinese books, catlg. of, in Leyden

M. A., her paper, two catalog, 12*3-24; fulness of names, Univ. L., (Schlegel) 31.0I**

^524-29; new ideas of, (O’Meara) 7622; Christern, F. W., 303*5; changed

improvements in, 8o35-2S; yearly rpt. titles, 269*8; duty on books, 279*2.
by S. B. Noyes, 166*2-1722*; by fotog- Christie, R: Copley, The Marquis de
rafy, 21424-215*5; aids to, 23929- Morante, loS***.

Browne, Miss M. A., her paper, two
Swedish libs., lost, 295*4.

Browne, W; Hand. Convict indexes,
72^-7415.

Browning, Robert, ref. list on, 28*6.

Brussels International conference for
interchange of official newspapers
and pub. docs., ii9*3-*8.

Buffalo, plan for a union library build-
ing at, 103*5; 6th annual meeting of

; cataloging, 249*3-16; A. L. A., Christmas, ref. list on, 282*.
conde'nsed rules for, 251-254, 263-264; Chronology. Urkundenlehre, (Leist)
Bodleian rules, 298*2-30124. See also 928; ref. list on, 28-2.

Alfabeting; Full names; Prefixes; Church-Langton, plan for a pub.
Size notation. lib. at, 149*6-19.

the A.L.A. at, announcement, Catalogers, examination of, at the Bib. Church libraries, 8*6.

papers, 163-254; proceed-
ings, 255-305; pub. lib. in 1983,
(Cutter) 211-217.

Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 103*6;
vote of thanks to, 292*8.

Buffalo Historical Soc., vote of thanks
to, 292*3.

Buffalo, Press of, vote of thanks to,
292*4.

Bugbee, James M., works on trials,
session laws, etc., 234*6.

Buildings for libs., 5021*24^ 2^Si5-28;
(Archer) 76*5; a union lib. building.

Nationale, 119*8.

Catlogs, blunders in, 727-29; 5426-55*1,
108*218; dictionary the best, 78*4;
cooperative, proposed in Italy,
14828-149*5; with notes, 2402*; form
of, for the books of a private lib.,
340**. See also Advertisements;
Cards; Classed; Subject.

Cincinnati Conference, remarks of
Notes and queries on the report of,

4*4-23.

Cincinnati Free P. L., 78*8, 242*4.;
bulletin, 13026 ; monthly suppl., 2372* ;
has extra copies of Boston Athe-
naeum and Brooklyn catlgs. for use
of public, 24027 ; the building, 27028,
271*5.

Circulation of books for home use,
opposed and defended in Germany,

155^^-

Circumstances alter cases, 35023-29.

Catalogs and cataloging, (Cutter) 12,

35, 55, 80, 110, 130, 150.

Catherinot, Nicolas, bibliog. of,

(Flack) 15025.

,, , a. Catholic Church, ref. list on, 32*1. ,

03; rpt. on, 20*12-20328; the Buffalo Catholic Institute, vote of thanks to. Civil Engineer’s Assoc., 103*6.
pub. lib. in 1983, 211-215; essential 292*8. Civil service, ref. list on, 2822.

features of, 23828; yearly rpt. on, at Celeste, R. Bibliog. des anciens voya- Clark, Emily A., 303*5.

Cincinnati meeting, (Poole) 23825. geurs a Bordeaux, 10924. Clarke, Rev. J. F. List of books on

Bull-fights, bibliog. of, (Carmena y Centennial Exhib. at Phila., ref. list religions, no**.

Millan), 150*6. on, 28*8. Clarke, Robert, councillor, 305*1.

Bullard, Martha A., 303*4. Central America, ms. bibliog. of, 8022. Clarke, Robert, & Co., catlg. of books

Bulletin board, 23922, 242**. Centralblatt fiir Bibliothekswesen, on America, 7929-80*1, 234*6.

Bulletin de la Societe de I’Histoire de 33022. Clarke, W: B: , 27926.

Chamberlain, Mellen, 11 129, 303*5; rpt. Class numbers, painted, (Perkins)
on fiction in pub. libs., 20^210; dis- i6*8.*5.

cussion on it, 28028,29; motion, 25727 ; Classed catalogs., (Thomas) 7526-76*6.
changed titles, 26523-20; an index of Classification, new system in Phila.
essays, 26626, 267*8; lib. architecture, Merc. Lib., (Edmands) io824; in
27025, 278*5-18; Com. on Lib. of Con- ’ " ■ '•

gress, 27423 ; school of lib. economy,

28926; Com. on school oflib. econ.,

29029 ; minority rpt. of Com . on school

Paris on Mazarin’s lib., 8*3.

Buhner, J. T., urges free importation
of books for libraries, 61*2; the pro-
vincial library, 108*2-18.

Buncher, Mrs., on reading for the
young, 22323.

Bunsen’s library, presented to High-
school L. of Korbach, 4123.

Burlington, Vt. Fletcher Free Lib.,
19821 ; reading for the young, 2 192 *-29.

catlgs., i68**-i6921; of the States of
the U. S., (Cutter) 205-208; of the-
ology, (Richardson) 320*1-32128. See
also Arrangement.

oflib. econ., 29321-22; lib. assistants, Cleaves, Emery, 17426, 303*

336

THE LIBRARY JOURNAL.

The index to Pseudonyms and Anonyms follows this.

Cleveland P. L., extract from report, Cooper Union, unwelcome visitors in, Dahlmann, F. C., Quellenkunde zur
subject catlg-., catlg-., 74”'-^. deutschen Geschichte, 32227.

TT — ^ j ^ Library lectures,

33S'3.>«.

. Dalton, W. II. Geog. record for 1878,
their report, 263'7-26422; report cata- 924.

loging rules, 2922«; the rules, Daniels, Miss M. B., 330^7.

251-254; requested to prepare rules Dante library of Prof. Wette, re-
fer transliteration, 292^7; Mr. moved to Strassburg, 1 1911 ; bibliog.

Soldan’s union, 296^^; members, of, ; in Germany, (Scartaz-

304!^'. zini) , 3237a ; Index to Batines’ Dante

Cooperation in indexing, 37®-'’’, bibliog., 3402®.

Cooperation in Italy, (Cutter) 1482®- Dartmouth Coll. Lib., assistance to

, , I49^'’- readers, 24377 ; E. A. Rollins’ offer

dress of societies interested in Sans- Cooperative index to periodicals, to, 33023.

krit lit., 3502*. 47*3-77; publisher’s notice, bi*®-!**; Darvvin, C: , ref. lists on, 282®.'

Collaborators on period, index, 9228-2®. editor’s notice, 127*7. Daspit de Saint-Armand, — , 1082®.

Colorado Springs, Library started in, Copyright, ref. lists on, 282®, 3o7«-27; Datarya Bharat Karyalya publishing
92*4. bibliog. of, (Solberg) 2351*. trans. of Sanskrit works, 3507®.

Colomb de Batines, 3402®. Cordier, H; Bibliog. de Beaumar- David, Fdlicien, careless librarian,

Columbia, {Conn.), gift from Sexton chais, 130*5, 160*®. 77*®.

“ ■ ■ ■" Cornell Univ., 197*®; the “Library,” Davidson, H., will continue work of

3523, 8o24, 17124, 23722, 3232®; Prof. Lib. Bureau, 256*2.

Fiske leaves, ii92*-23; described, Davidson, T; Bibliog. of Rosmini,
(Nelson) 322*2; special lists, mathe- ioq25. 2^4.77.
matics, 34073.

Closing,

12723-2®.

Clouard, M. Bibliog. d’Alfred de
Musset, 33227.

Clough, Arthur Hugh, characters in
the Bothie, 552®.

Cogswell, Dr. Jos. G., his views on
pub. libs., 16578-21^ 20.

Coins and medals, ref. list on, 28*2.

Coleman, W: Emmettc, asks for ad-

Davis, R. C., 27925.

Cotgreave, A., his long-reacher, 4025- Dearborn Park, 12923-20.

Decorative Art Soc., their rooms open

Cotton des Houssayes, Abbe, What a
librarian should be, 33*2.

to A. L. A., 26828.

DeFoe, D., Robinson Crusoe bibliog.,

54^'*-

Delaville le Roulx, J. La bibl. de
rOrdre de Saint Jean de Jerusalem
a Malte, 14922.

B. Little for library in, 9373.

Columbia Coll.L., 1977*; new work at,

109*6.70 ; new building,i6423 ; arranged
for special uses, 239*8; school
of libns. at, 2442* ; proposed school
of lib. economy at, 28578-291*7; nota-
tion at, 3412®.

Commerce, ref. lists on, 2823.

Committee. See also Cooperation

Committee, Executive Committee, Councillors, A.L.A., 305.

Finance Committee, Reception Courses of study, 2427®-24472.

Committee. Cousin, J., his Organis. des bibl

Committee on a school of library econ- publiques reviewed, 51**.

omy appointed, 2902®; report, 293*3-21. Cowell, P; , collab. on Poole’s Index, Delaya.nt, Leopold. Bibliog. roche-
Committee on an index of essays 1977*. laise, 54*5.

appointed, 268*5; report and discus- Cowing, J: H., Com. on Annual Meet- Delisle, Leopold, Mss. du fonds Libri
sion, 2762*-277*5. ^ ing, 305*®. _ dans Ashburnhan Place, 79*2; an-

Committee on changed titles ap- Cranks in libraries, 74*8-27, cient catlgs. de livres, no*®.

pointed, 26822. Credland, W. R. Free public libraries Deltour, F., Catalg. des theses fran-

Committee on library architecture in 1882, 5124. Raises et latines, 79*8.

appointed, 2742* ; report, 278*®. Criminal literature, the suppression Demoralizing literature, 322®.

Committee on library assistants ap- of, 3^325-2®. Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft,

pointed, 278*5; report and discus- Crudities of the cheap cataloger, 727-29. _ Catlg. of library, (Kohler) 92*.
sion, 291*7-23. Crunden, F. M., 303’®; collab. on Deutsche Rundschau, index to, 236*®.

Poole’s Index, 197*2; A. L. A. Dewey, Melvil, 17028, 2052®, 256*7,1®,
catlg., 26227-22, 263*2 ; changed titles, ’ " -

26322; shelf-arrangement, 275*3-15. *«,

22; Com. on Nominations, 2752®; lib.

Committee on nominations appointed,
27523; report, 292'®, 295**-72.

Committee on resolutions appointed,
27523 ; report, 29128-292*4.

Committee on the abolition of duty on
books appointed, 2752®; report, 27S28;
enlarged, 27923.

Committee on the A.L.A. catalog,
26o2-'>; enlarged, 263*5.

Committee on the Annual Meeting,
1883, 305^^-

Committee on the distribution of pub-

assistants, 27727 ; Com. on lib. assist-
ants, 278*4; lib. archit., 278**; school
of lib. economy, 2902®; Councillor,

305’^-

Cummings, T: H., aids readers at
Boston P. L., 24324; lectures at
Workingmen’s Club and Wells’
Memorial Inst., 2^*8

lie documents, 257-260; enlarged, Curzon, — de. Bibliog. of Jules Qiii-
260*7 ; report, 291*4-77. cherat, 35*7.

Committee on the examination of li- Cushing, W: Index to N. Amer. rev.,
brary assistants appointed, 278*4; SS'**; diet, of pseudonyms, 155*4;

report, 291** *®. century of authors, 237*8.

Committee on the program, vote of Cutter, C; A., 6*®, 2492®, 27227, 2922®,

thanks to, 292**.

Communications, 4.

Concord P. L., 4725, 48**.

Confiscation of books, 119*®-*®.

Congdon, C: T., Gen. Soc. of Me-
chanics and Tradesmen, N.Y., 12822.

Congregational Theol. Seminary Lib.,
Chicago, its new building, 202*®-25.

Congressional docs., plan for num-
bering, (Edmands) 250, 251.

Congressional lib. See Library of
Congress.

Connecticut lib. law, 26*2-27*®.

Conservatoire de Musique, bibl. du,

7623, 77*®-*®.

Constantinople, books printed at,
1092®.

Constitution, U. S., ref. lists on, 282®.

Contemporary rev., index to, (Gris-
wold) 55*®, 236*7.

Converse, Frank H., on reading for
the young, 113*8.

Convict indexes, (Brown) 722I-74*®.

Cookery-books, ref. list on, 282*.

Coolidge, W. A. B. The lib. of Mag-
dalen College, Oxford, 12822.

Cooper, Peter, 76**.

. 29222, 2942®, 2962®, 303*®; first
work at Columbia Coll, libs., 109*®;
the Woonsocket catlg., 171*2; ten
classes too few, 171*®; motions,
255*3, 26424, 278*®, 285*7, 292*7 ; i-pt. of
Sec. A. L. A., 25525-256*4 ; praises the
treasurer, 2552®, 257*8 ; rpt. on A. L.A.
catlg., 260*8-2®; remarks, 2642®; A. L.
A. catlg., 261*8,21,23,29, 26223,25,27,29,
26324 ; answers Mr. Perkins on shelf-
classification, 2642®; an index ot
essays, 26623-267*8-24, 268*3, 27628-27,
277*2; changed titles, 25S*®-**,*®-** ;
Com. on an essay index, 268*4; the
building of the ‘Lib. of Congress,
27325-274*3; shelf arrangement, 275-
17-21; lib assistants, 277*®,*®, 278*2,14;
Com. on lib. assistants, 278**;
school of lib. economy, 285'®-288*4,
289*3,24, 29028,29, 291**, 294*7-27; the
next meeting, 29124.27 ; second vote
vote of thanks to Mr. Poole, 292*4;
Executive Com., 292*®, 295**; Sec.
A. L. A., 304*®; his notation at
Columbia Coll. Lib., 341**®; his
plan of numbering like Mr. Koop-
man’s, 336*3,

295*8-27, 29625, 303*® ; library statistics,

7*7-2®; printing from cards, 41*3-21 ; co-
operates with Mr. Stetson, 47*®;
rules fora diet, catal. quoted, 82*8;
review of Vallee’s bibliog., 1042*-
10527 ; cooperation in Italy, 148*®-
149*5; on entry under prefixes,

15227-29 ; the Mazarin librarians, 155
26.29; Suppl. to Winchester Town

Lib. catal., i72*3; arrangement of -

the parts of the U.S. in a hist, and DeWitt Memorial Lib., its work, 712®-
geog. classification, 205*4-20823, 7?,**.

2752®; the Buffalo pub. lib. in 1983, Dexter, Julius, Vice-Pres., 304*®.
211-217; discussion on it, 276*4-**; Dictionary catalog is the best, 78*4.
how to get books, 238*®; rpt. of Dime novels, 5723-24, S4*®-*®.
Cooperation Com., 263*7-26422; use Dingler’s Polytechnisches Journal,
of monthly periodical index, 269’®; Index to, 280*4.

vote of thanks to, 276*®; school of Diplomatics. Urkundenlehre, (Leist)

lib. economy, 289*8-290*7; Com. on 9*8.

school of lib. econ., 290*®; Executive Discarding books, 772*.

Com., 292*3, 295*2; motion, 29223; Disease, communication of, through
rpt. of Com. on School for Libra- libs., (Cutter) 33628-337*5.
rians, 291*3-21; Coop. Com., 304*®; Disraeli, B; , ref. lists on, 28®*.

Com. on Ann. Meeting, 305*9 ; Con- Divination, bibliog. of, (Boiiche-
densed rules of, to be had of, 34022; Leclerq) 13022.

libraries and disease, 33628-337*®. Dorsey, T: , librarian of N.Y. City L.,
Cyclopaedias, ref. list on, 282®. 337'^ •

THE LIBRARY JOURNAL.

The index to Pseudonyms and Anonyms follows this.

337

Drama, ref. lists on, 2S”-28; course of Fage, K. Les ceuvres de Haluze
reading on, (Matthews) loo^^, 23S>8. catal., 35I'’.

Drout, J: , asst, librarian of N.Y.City Falconwood Club, vote of thanks to,
L., 337'-'’’. 202’8.

Dufour, Vabhd Valentin. Bibliog. Fall River P. L., catig. of, 8020-S213,

artist, hist, et lit. de Paris, 9-
Dumas, Alex., ref. list on, 28-®.
Dunning, Rev. A. E., 244-8.
Dutch pamphlets, (Petit) 15021.
Duty on books, 2752'*, 27S’®-279i*.

Farrar, C. S. Hist, of sculpture, etc.,

234^.

Farwell , C. B., 272”.

lab. on Poole’s index, 1971^ ; a con-
ference of scholars, 22012.27 ; rpt. on
aids and guides to readers, 233-245 ;
finance com., 256-'', 25725, 304*8 ; use
monthly periodical index, 269*3-1*;
Com. on duty on books, 2752* ; lib-
apistants, 27723-2*; Com. on lib. as-
sistants, 278**; yearly reporter on
aids and guides, ^^51**.

x* arwtiil , r>., aim guiucs,

Faust, bibliog. of) (Ilcinemann) 12*2; Fotografic albums in libraries, 4815.
ref. list on, 291®. Fotografic room in the Bibliothfeque

ibl. u. d. Lesesaal d. Fiction, 28028-21); ref. lists on, 29'8-23, Nationale, 61IT.

5512; Cleveland P. L., 3328; sensa- Foxwell, admiration of Ameri-

tional, 4120-27 ; in pub. libs., (Cham- can libns, 26421.
berlain) 208-210; wholesome, 32621
Fields, James T., 265"

Dyer, J: N., 27921 ; Councillor, 305*1
Dziatzko, K; Bibl. u '

Brit. Museum, 2382*.

Earle, Mhs S.. F., 303*8; catig. of
Worcester P. L., 1702*.

Earle, T; Gen. Soc. of Mechanics and Filology, classical, classification of.
Tradesmen, N. Y., 12822. 9*1.

East Hampton P. L., catig. of, 35*°, Filosofy, ref. lists on, 31*3.

Finance, ref. lists on,

Finance Committee report, 25613-2*;
audit of Treasurer’s report, 25720,
26820; A. L. A. catig., 26023; to have

France, ref. lists on, 2923-20.

France. Ministfere de Justice. Library
of foreign legislation, 15523.

France. Min. de I’lnstruction, Tra-
vaux des profs, des Facultds des
Sciences, 150*1.

Franklin, B:, I6512; ref. list on, 2920;
his books and mss. sold to the U. S.
State Department, ^123-20.

proceedings printed, 29223; mem- Franklin Institute, Phila., its library,

269*8.

17128-172**,

Eastern question, ref. lists on, 2828-29**.

Eaton, J: , 305*2.

Eddas,‘listofeds.andtrans., (Solberg)

235’^-

Edgeworth, Maria, 57*3. bers, 304*1. ^

Editorials, (Cutter) 3,23, 47, 71, 103, Fires in libraries, 215*8-18; Sydney, Free libraries develop taste for read-
6118.21; Quebec, 92*2; Indiana Univ. ing, 50*1.

L., 15528. Free pub. libs., (Credland) 512*; suc-

-- cess of, in industrial towns, (Milne)

- ... . . 338^8.

gested for Lib. jour., 488-5*2; new Fishes of the Pacific coast, bibliog. French explorations, bibliog. of,
ato..- t ;k (Gill) 23421. (Graffarel) 1302*.

Fiske, J: , 228^1. French hist., bibliog. of sources of,

Fiske, Prof. Willard, his Petrarch (Monod and Moiinier) 323*8.
and Icelandic collections of books French lib., bibliog. of orig. eds., (Le
and mss., 119*8.22; catig. of Petrarch Petit) 10*2.
books, 130*3, 172**, 2342*. French patents, index to, 280*8.

27823, 2962*, 30317, 32413; errata et Fish culture, bibliog. of, (Westwood
corrigenda, a new department sug- and Satchell) 5428.
gested for Lib. jour., 428-5*2; new ’
classification in Phila. Merc. Lib.,
ioS2*; duties of the librarian, 10S28; Fiske, J: , 22^^*.
collab. on Poole’s Index, 197*8; rpt. -n-.-jr -x

on lib. architecture, 201*2-20323; dis-
cussion on it, 26923-27421 ; plan for
numbering Congress, docs., 250-251 ;

A.L.A. catig., 2612*; an index of Flach, Jacques, Catherinot bibliog., French Revolution, catig. of collec-

"" 15023. tion on, (Nadaillac) 23428.

Flade, Zlr. Dietrich, his trial for witch- Friederici, K; Bibliotheca orientalis,
craft, 80’*^ _ 35'*

essays, 2662*. 25-27^ 267*8, 26, 2682*, *

Com. on an essay index, 268*^;
changed titles, 268*3; rpt. of Com. on
essay index, 2762*-23; lib. assistants, Fletcher, Dr. R., bibliog. in his Friedlander & Sohn, Naturae novitates,
27728-278**; duty on books, 2‘jgr^; Human proportion in art, 323*1.
motion, 2922*; Councillor, 305*2; Fletcher, W: I., 47*®, 194**. *1,265**-

-,79**

27428, 303*1 ; ann. indexes to period,
lit., 5*^-23; convict indexes, 73'*-74*3;
collab. on Poole’s Index, 197*8; edits
monthly index of periodicals, 2632**;
lib. assistants, 27725. 27 ; index of

Palmer’s Works, two eds., 330*2;
reading notes on Luther, 339*®.

Edmond, J. P. Bibliog. of sculptured
stones of Scotland, 10923; lib. of
St. Mary’s College, 1492®; works
pub. in Aberdeen, 323*6.

Education, ref. list on, 29** ; bibliog.
of, (Allain) 13022.

Educational lit., bibliog. of, 323*8.

Edwards, E; Memoirs of libs., 33S28;
civil-list annuity awarded to, 339*2.

Egypt, bibliog. of, (Hilmy) 323*3.

Eikon basilike, Wagstaffe’s list of eds. Fletcher Free L., 472^; extract from

Friends Free Lib., Germantown, Pa.,
extract from rpt., 1C9**; reading for
the young and fiction, 22228-223*3;
publishes ref. list on current topics
m newspaper, 238*2; assistance to
readers, 243*®.

essays, 267*** **, 2’7'628;Com. on an Friends, Soc. of, on demoralizing lit-
essay index, 268**; use of monthly erature, 322®.

periodical index, 269*®; Com. on lib. Full names, 1228-29, 3522, 55**-**, 82*8-21,
assistants, 278*^; vote of thanks to, iio23-2'i, 131*3, 151*8, 324*8-*®.

29a*®; Verhandl. d. Ges. naturforsch.

Freunde zu Berlin, 330*314; librarian G., W. M. Griswold, W. M.
of Amherst Col. L., 330*8, ^

of, (Solly) 110*3.

report, 5228-53*2.

Electricity, bibliog. of, (Bell) 323*®; Fleury, M. E., bequesttoBibl.Nation-

(May) 323*8.

Eliot, G: , ref. list on, 2928.

Eliot, Dr. S: Morals in schools, 1322*-

Gaffarel, Paul. Les explorations fran-
9aises depuis 1870, i
Gaidoz, H: Bibliog. t
sace, 923.

Gannett, H: , his arrangement of the
States of the U.S., 2052®.

Emerson, R. W., ref. lists on, 29*2-*3; 32328.

bibliog. (Ireland) 35*®; concordance Florence, ref. list on, 292®.

ale, 330'

Flint, Weston, 199*2, 269*®; extract
from letter, 280** *® ; Councillor, 305*2 ; Gardyne, Alexander, his gift to Mitch-
Catig. of lib. of U. S. Patent Office, ell L., 3502®.

to (Benton) 237**; (Kennedy) 237*8.
Engel, E., no**.

English classics, ref. list on, 29*®.
English history, ref. lists on, 29**.

Foley, H: Records of Eng. Prov.
Soc. of Jesus, 83*5.

Folk lore, bibliog. of, 79**; (Gomme)

English language, ref. list on, 29*®.
English Philol. Soc., new dictionary,
24*3.

Errata et corrigenda, a new depart-

Fonograf, the, in library work,

2i6'3-*®.

Forbes, R. B., extract from letter,

c- . 1 27928.

mentsuggested for Lib. jour. ,428-5*2. Forestry, ref. list on, 292®. , .

Essays, index of, 265*8-268*4, 2762*- Fortnightly rev., index to, (Griswold) Genealogy, ref. list on, 292*.

27.7“> 33S-^'^^- 55^8,236**. General notes, 16,41, 61, 92, 119, 138,

IT tj:ui: --i* Foster, W: E., 6*8,84**, ii2*3, 165**, --- — - —

Garnett, R: , 247*8, 249*8, 25022; degree
of LL.D. conferred upon, 13823-28;
printing of the British Museum
catig., 340*4.

Garrison, Wendell Phillips, exchange
of newspaper odds and ends, 14823-2* ;
Com. on Transliteration, 293**.

Garstin, Afrs. M. A., takes charge of
library in Colorado Springs, 92*4.

Gay, Frank B., librarian of Watkin-
son L., 3302*.

Estrejcher, K. Bibliog. polska, 35*2.
Evans, E. T. Com. on Annual Meet-

i**g. 305'”- ,

Evening use of libs., 13826-29.
Evolution, ref. list on, 29*®.

Executive Committee, 2912® 27 ; for
1883-4, chosen, 292*8-2*, 29428-29512.
Express delivery of books, 532®, 239*4.

F., W: I. See Fletcher, W: I.

Fabre, Ferdinand, librarian of Maza-
rin Lib., 1552®.

Facultes des Sciences, France, works
of professors of, 150**.

, , . . ... *55. 330, .350-

2652*, 2962®, 303**, 32412; monthly ref. General Soc. of Mechanics and
lists, 10*8-1127,23522,24928; ref. lists Tradesmen of the City of N. Y.,
mounted on cards, 242*®; praised, (Earle and Congdon) 12822.

10*6-26; plan of systematic training Gennari, A. Ariosto in Bibl. di Fer-
in reading at school, 2423-26**, 752*; rara, 8*4.

cooperates with Mr. Stetson, 47*8; Geografical classification of places in
lib. and schools, 752*, 284**-2S5*2; the U.S., (Cutter) 205-208.
libraries and readers, 752®, 84**-*®; Geografy, bibliog. of, (Koner) 79**.
asks for data for his “ Aids to read- Geology, works pub. during 1S7S,
ers,” 127*8-19; his management of (Whit-aker and Dalton) 924 ; ref. list
•the Providence Pub. Lib., 1472®; on, 292*; bibliog. of Cumberland,
books and articles on reading, 1492®; ( Whitaker) 110*2.

ist suppl. to Finding list, 171*®; col- Georgia literature, bibliog. of, 235**.

338

German empire, library of the, site
promised tor building, 16^^.

German history, ref. list on, 29*8; bib-
liog. of, (Dahlmann) 3222^.

German literature, Biicherlexikon,
1S75-79, (Ileinsius) 35>'‘.

German nobility, (Gundlach) 339'®.

German periodicals, catlg. of, (Grack-
lauer) 54^^.

German tilology, bibliog. of, (Bahder)

THE LrBRARY JOURNAL.

The index to Pseudonyms and Anonyms follows this,

about alfabeting of De Amicis,
8217-18J Q. i>. ind^ex annual for 1882,
82-2; p. index of essays, no*'',
26328, 2662^, 33S'2 ; entry under pre-
fixes, 15228; P. indexes, 236*“-i‘';
index to Revue d. D. Mondes, 324*8,
34024

Ileinsius, W; Allgemeines Biicher*
lexikon, 35'^.

Helmholtz, H. L. F., death of, 34028.
Helps, Arthur, reference list on, 30**.
Henman & Beddoe. Gilstrap Free
Lib., 7527.

Henri V., bibliog of, 32228.

Grosvenor Lib., 103*8, 275*®; vote of Heraldry, ref. list on, 30**.

thanks to, 292*2.

Grotius, Hugo, bibliog. of, (Rogge)

323’^-

German scientific societies, bibliog. of, Guerazzi, F. D., bibliog. of (Vis-
(Miiller) 33928. mara) 792®.

German Young Men’s Assoc., vote of Guild, Reuben A., 276**, 303*® ; A.L.A.
thanks to, 292*8. catlg., 262*7-**; lib. architecture,

Gundlach, O. Bibl. familiarum no-
bilium, 339***.

posed in, 155'

Germany. Reichsgericht. Kat. d. Bibl,

12*6, 131*^.

Gesellschaft naturforschender Fre- H.,J. M. Hubbard, J. M.

unde, 330*3. Hale, Rev. E. E. Morals in schools.

Gifts and bequests to libs., 1622,23, 13221.25. ^ ^

4123, 4^28, 6113, ^6*7, 77*9, 92*i-*3, jo8*3, Halkctt, S; , and Laing, S: Diet, of Hill, Frank P., 303***.

Hewens, Miss C. M., 217*7, 22628, 282*2,
2842*’; cooperates with Mr. Stetson,
47*9; books for the young, 79*3,
242*1 ; collab. on Poole’s Index, 1972* ;
reading of the young at Hartford,
22o28-22 i22; Councillor, 305*2.

Hieroglyphics, Egyptian, ref. list on,
30*2.

Hildebrandt, — . Bibliog. der Staats-u.
Rechtswissenschaften, 54**.

Hildeburn, C.R. Issues of Penn, press,
150*8; list of issues of the press in
Penn., 1735-59, 926, 234*8.

Hill, Alex., Councillor, 305*2.

13822,” 1 4725-26, ' 155I8, 16425, 202*8, anon, and ps. lit., 83*8, 236*1, *5.

32127, 32223, 330*5. Hall, G. Stanley, 2382*.

Gill, T. Bibliog. of fishes of Pacific Hall, W; , 2792 '

coast, 2342*,

Gilman, D. C., vice-pres., 304*8.
Gilstrap Free Library, 7527.

Girls’ reading, 326*i‘i*.

Girls, stories for, 152*8- **>.

Giry, — . Bibliog. of Jules Quicherat,

Hallam, j: 303*®; promotes a free
public library in Toronto, 48*7-23 ; ad-
dress to managers of Toronto Free

Hillard, G: S., ref. list on, 30*2.

Hills, W. J., 303*9.

Hilmy, Prince Ibrahim. Bibliog. of
Egypt, 323*8.

Historical classification of places in
the U.S., (Cutter) 205-208.

Lib., 50*8-51*1; notes on free libra- Historical novels and tales, selected
and books, 51*®; invites the list of, (Bowen) 238**.

A.L.A. to meet at Toronto in 1884,
280*9-24

Gloversville, work at, (Peck) 285*8, Hamilton, A. H. A., 5523.

20711-29. Hamilton, C: , 256*9.

Golden days, 132*9-2*. Hamilton, Sir W: , ref. list on, 30**.

Gomme, G: Laurence. Bibliog. of Hamilton mss., amount paid for, 51*8.

folk-lore pub. in English, 925,

Historical ref. lists, (Short) 2382*.
Historical Society, Buffalo, 103*8.
Histories, ref. lists of, 30**-*®.

Holden, Prof. E: S., 199*8.

Hollister, F. M., Com, on Annual
meeting, 305**.

Hammett, C; E., yr. Bibliog. of Holman, W; S ,27123,20.

Goode, G. Brown, Bibliog. of alumni Newport, R.L, 23421.

of Wesleyan Univ., 15023. Hammond, Col. C: G., gift of, 202*8.

Gracklauer, O. Deutscher Journal- Hanbury, J/r., plan for pub. lib.
Katalog fiir 1883, 54^' j Augenheil- at Church-Langton, 149*8 *9.
kunde, 10928. Hannah, G; , 27927.

Granges de Surgeres, le marquis de. Harbaugh, M. C., 303*8; collab. on
Bibliog. de La Rochefoucauld, i( "" ^ ,

Grassauer, Ferd. Hdbh f. oster. Uni'

0929.

Poole’s Index, 197*

Hardy, A. S. Course of reading on
iiiDi., 54“ , 75^'*. mathematics, 322*9.

Greek art, ref. list on, 2928. Harris, G: W; , 303*8; collab. on

Greek drama, ref. list on, 2929. Poole’s Index, 197*9; school for li-

Greek lexicografy, ref. list on, 2929. brarians, 294*5.

Green, Rev. A. L., his widow gives Harris, W: T., his system of classi-
his lib. to the public, 155**, 330*'. fication flexible, 275*5.

Green, S: S., 6*5, 165**, 170**, 22121, Harris Institute, catlg. of, 171*2 *1.
24423, 257*5,28429,303*8; cooperates Harrisse, H. Bibliog. of the Cabots,
with Mr. Stetson, 47*9; library aids, 35*7,80*2,234^.

Home library, (M.atthews) 3212*.

Homer, bibliog. of, (Schroeter) 12*3 ;
ref. list on, 30*3.

Homes, H; A., 24525, 276*8, 303*8; sub-
ject-index catlgs., 148*3-22; ist suppl.
to subject index of N.Y. State Lib.,
171*7; shelf-arrangement of books
in N.Y. State Lib., paper, 203-205;
discussion, 275**-22 ; A.L.A. catlg.,
261*8, 262*1; Com. on Lib. of Con-
gress, 27427 ; Com. on duty on books,
275*1; duty on books, 27829-279'*, 22;
an essay index, 27629; school of lib.
economy, 289 '3; rpt. ofCom.onLib.
Assistants, 29121 ; Vice-Pres., 304*5.

Horticultural Soc., 103*®.

Hosmer Hall, Hartford, 4721, 198*8.

5121, 14921, 23328; libraries and schools. Hart, C H. Bibliog. Websteriana, Houghton, J. C., aid to readers, 24328

339:’- ,

newspaper, 23729; improvement of
reading in, 244**.

Hartwig, O. Centralblatt fiir Biblio-
thekswesen, 330*2.

7525, 84*8-18, paper, 229-233, discus-
sion, 28i**-28525; collab. on Poole’s
Index, 197*8; rpt. of Finance Com.,

256*5-21; rpt. on distrib. of pub. docs.,

258*5-25925; motion, 2572", 279*1; A.

L. A. catlg., 28128; Finance Com.,

25725, 304*8; calls attention to the
large balance in the treasury, 25727 ;

Com. on Pub. Docs., 257*9; index of Harvard Musical Assoc., 103*
essays, 266*2,28; 276*5, 277**, *3; au- Harvard University Lib., 75*8, 112*1,
dits treasurer’s rpt., 268*8; monthly 197**, 240**; extracts from report,

periodical index, 269*5; building of 9*'; bulletin, 31523, 171*1, 237**, 340*3;

the Congressional Library, 274*2-27; its pleasantries, 49*3; a, training

duty on books, 279*3; libraries and school for libns., 288**; use of its

schools in England, 28i**'*i; calls ms. catlg. in preparing index of es-

E., cooperates with

reading for the young, 223*8-2*.

Hartford Lib., 47*9, 197**; bulletin, House of Commons Library lighted
9"®» 23722; reading of the young at, - . . .

attention to the work at Gloversville, says, 335*7.
285*8; school of lib. economy, 290*7, Hasbrouck,

293*3-294*!; rept. of Com. on Pub.
Docs., 291 *3-16; Exec. Com., 292*9,
295*2; government pubs., 341*3-25.
Greene, C: S. In a great lib , 338**.
Greenwood, Prof. J. M. What the
school-children read, 49*8-50*5.

Grey, Sir G., presents a lib. to Auck-
land, and to Cape of Good Hope,

16*2.

y-”, 237-“, rcauiiig 01 me young au, by the Edison electric light, 92**.
220*8-22122; announces additions in Howard, G: , lends his yacht to the A.

L. A., 27529; vote of thanks to, 292'*,
Hoyt P. L., trust deed, 108*1.

Huart, C. Bibliog. ottomane, 109*8.
Hubbard, James M., 75*"; letter on
Boston P. L., 8'!; the Public Libra-
ry and the children, 75*8; early pro-
prietary lib., 149*8-19.

Hugo, Victor, ref. list on, 30*1.

Hume, D; , ref. list on, 30*1.
Humphery, G; R. Librarians and the
working-classes, 128*3.

Huntington, Rev. W. R., on pub. libs.,
245*3. 21.

Hurst, J: F. Bibliotheca theologica,

54*9, 234*8.

Hutcheson, David, 174*8, 324*8; full
names, 324*1.

Hutchins, Miss Annie E., 325*2.

Griffin, Appleton P. C. Discovery of Heat in libs., 77*1, 213*

Mr. Stetson, 47*8; collab. on Poole’s
Index, 1972*.

Hathaway, F. P., 257*9.

Haverhill, P. L., assistance to readers,

243’“-

Haynes, J: E: Pseudonyms of au- Hutchinson, W., 303
thors, 16*9, 155*3, 236**.

Hayward, Miss, on children’s reading,

222**-15.

Hutt, A. Granger. La Rochefoucauld
and his Eng. translators, 9*7.

the Mississippi, 130*8, 234**.

Griswold, J. Bibliog. of assurance
law, 234*3.

Griswold, W: M., his liking for index-
ing, 23*3; index to Contemp., Fort-
nightly, and Nineteenth century,
55*6; convict indexes, 73*8-74*5; asks

Icelandic lib. of Prof. W. Fiske,

Illustrated works, bibliog. of, 35*2.

Hebrew Young Men’s Assoc., vote
of thanks to, 292*2.

Heidelberg, Palatine library moved Imagination of children, 87**
from, (Allacci) 49**.

Heilprin, Michael, added to the Com,
on Transliteration, 293*9.

Heinemann, — . Faust bibliog., 12*2.

' *33*^

Immoral books, 32*8.

In a great library, (Greene) 338*'.
Incunabula, Oriental, (Schwab) 130*8.

339

THE LIBRARY JOURNAL.

The index to Pseudonyms and Anonyms follows this.

Index to recent reference lists, (Carr)

27''-33’^.

Index niedicus, 2351®.

Index Society, 263^*; 4th ann. rpt. of,
83'^'-* ; to index Eng. and Amer. por-
traits, its mistake in making

many little indexes, 266-®; account
of, (Ashbee) 324'®.

Indexes, ref. list on, 30*^; bibliog.,
(Cutter) 55, S2, no, 131,151,324,340;
convict, 72-*-74i®; anybody can make
an index, 7312, See also Periodi-
cals.

Indian question, ref. list on, 301®.

Indiana Univ. Lib., burned,

Indianapolis P. L. catlg., 1692®, 170-®-

171 323^^-

Inquisition into the reading of their
patrons by American librarians,

415.

Insurance law, bibliog. of, (Griswold)

234

Interchange, the, 82®^.

Iowa, a new department proposed for
the State L., 7210.

Iowa Univ. Lib., assistance to readers,
243*®; practical talks on reading,
24417.

Ireland, Alexander. Emerson bibliog.,

Ireland, W. The book-lover’s enchiri-
dion, 2381®.

Ireland, ref. list on, 301®.

Ireland. National L., suppl. catlgs.,
34017.

Irving, Washington, bibliog. of, 79^^,

235“*-

Italy, ref. list on, 30I®; a gen. catlg.
of books in libs, proposed, (Nar-
ducci) 130^®; list of pub. libs. (Nar-
ducci) 131II; cooperation in, 148-®-
149I®; index to patents, 280I*; utility
of a gen. catlg. of the libs., 3232®.
Ives, W; , 303I®.

iackson, F., 30322; Councillor, 30512.
ackson, James. Liste provisoire, 23I®.
acobs, Joseph. The Jewish question,
1875-83. 339-“-

James, Miss Hannah P., 2212®; collab.
on Poole’s Index, 19722; Councillor,

305^®-

Japan, pub. libs, in, 1621, 51 1®.

Jenkins, Miss, B. P. L. lower hall,
reading for the young, 21817-2191®.
Jenner, H; Controversy with Pearson,
330-"-

Jermain, Mrs. Juvenile reading and
the public library, 2251®- 2261®.
Jesuitism, bibliog. of, 2351®.

Jesuits, their library at Palermo, 4128-29 ;

Eng. province of, (Foley) 83I®.
Jevons, W: Stanley, list of books on
political economy, 23811; on libs.,
2442®; rationale of free pub. libs.,
32212.

Jewett, C; Coffin, iii27.

Jewett, J., Com. on Ann. Meeting,

3^15^®*

Jewett, S. S., lends his yacht to the
A.L.A., 27529; vote of thanks to,
29212.

Jewish lib. of A. L. Green, 15525-28.
Jewish question, bibliog. of, (Jacobs)
33Q^^*

Jillson. W; E., 11121.

Johns Hopkins Univ., special provi-
sion for readers, 23915*11.

Jones, J: Winter, no library complete,
3315; objections to printed catlg.,
16618*11.

Jordan Bros. Catal., 351®.

Journal of speculative philosophy, in-
dex to, 23621.

Journalism, ref. list on, 30I®.

Juvenile literature See Children.

Kansas City Lib. not supported by
billiard-hall, 162*.

Kean, T., Com. on Ann. Meeting,
305'®.

Kelchner, Dr. Ernst. Mariehthaler
Drucke d. Stadt. Bibl. zu Frankfort
a. M., 8211.

Kendall, H; L., bequest to Providence
P. L., 14725-20.

Kennedy, W. S. Emerson concord-
ance, 237*9.

Kerling, H. J., 30322.

Key, E. Svenska tidningspressens
historia, 150*9.

Kiernan, T: J., collab. on Poole’s In-
dex, 19722.

Kimberly, A. G., 3032®, 32412.

Kite, W :, 238*2; book registry, 402®-
4 1 11; on reading for the young, 22225-
22315.

Kohler, Reinhold. Cat. d. Bibl. d.
Deutsche Shakespeare Gesellschaft,
9"'-

Kongl. Biblioteket, Stockholm. Ars-
berattelse for ar 1S82, 752®.

K. Landesbibliothek in Wiesbaden,
Die nassauer Drucke d., 131I®.

K. off. Bibl., Dresden. Verz. d. neuen
Werke, no*®.

Koner, W. Nov. 1881-82 a. d. Gebiete
d. Geog. ersch. Werke, 79*1.

Koopman, H. L., numbering scheme,

341“^'^®. 33S^®-336^3.

Korbach High School L., Bunsen’s
library presented to, 412®.

Krauth, Rev. Dr., his library, 412*.

Labor-savers in literary work, their
value, 332®.

Laing, S: Diet, of anon, and pseudon.
lit., 83*®, 236*^.

Lalanne, Lud. Index to Brantome’s
works, 324*1.

Lama, C: de. Bibl. des dcrivains de
la Cong, de Saint-Maur, 92®.

Lancashire, oldest lib. in, to be dis-
persed, 1382®.

Lancaster {Mass.) P. L., children’s
reading, 222*8*21; scrap-book of,
2402®.

Lane, W; C. The Carlyle collection,
3523 ; review of the Fall River catlg. ,
8i25, 8213.

Lane’s Arabian society, index to,
(Poole) 55*®.

Lamed, J. N., 2752®, 282*2, 29222, 29429,
3032®; cooperates with Mr. Stetson,
4723; collab. on Poole’s Index, 1972®;
reading for the young, 2262*; Fi-
nance Com., 2562®, 25723, 304*®; mo-
tion, 260*® ; an index of essays, 267*1 ;
Com. on Nominations, 2752®; audits
rpt. of chairman of Finance Com.,
26321 ; his use of the Dewey classifi-
cation, 291*1 ; Com. on Annual Meet-

in.g". 305'^'-

La Rochefoucauld, bibliog. of, (Hutt)
921 ; bibliog. of, (Granges de Sur-
geres) 1092^.

La Rochelle, bibliog. of, (Delayant)
54^®-

Law, bibliog. of, (Hildebrandt) 54*®;
(Soule) 5425, 23513; (Bugbee) 234*6;
(Swett) 23511.

Law, librarjr. See Library law.

Lectures in libraries, 24413*21; (Dale)
338**5-19; in Safford Free L., 16*®.

Lee, J. M. W., 325*®, n ; Com. on Pub.
Docs., 258*1; Councillor, 3051®.

Leeds {Eng.) P. L. Extract from re-
port, 3321.

Legislation, a library of foreign, es-
tablished in Paris, 155*®.

Leist, Dr. F: Urkundenlehre, 92®.

Lenox Lib. not a library, 14928-1 50**.

Lenox and Astor Hbs., 1282*.

Le Petit, Jules. Ed. orig. d’auteurs
frangais du i5e-i8« si^cle, 10*2.

Letteratura biografica, (Scartazzini)

323^*-

Lettering books for shelf arrangement,
16*3-15, 20321-204I5.

Le Vavasseur, G. Bibl. ornaise, can-
ton de Briouze, 15021, 3392®.

Levi Parsons Lib., Gloversville, read-
ing for the young, 226*®.

Leyden Univ. Lib., its catlg., how
kept, 15225; catlg. des livres chinois
dans la bibl., (Schlegel) 340*9.

Leypoldt, F: , 1642', 230*®, 25721, 28ii<;
his liberality, 194*1; books of all
time, 238*9; offers Lib. j'our. for pub.
of monthly index, 2632®; requested to
print the Proceedings in the Lib.
jour., 2922®; Councillor, 3051®.

Librarians, what they should be, 33*2;
trained in the Ambrosian Library,
Milan, 342®; fotografic albums of,
48*5; selection of, 5o2>-5ii«; of Na-
poleon I., 77*5; ought to petition
Congress about binding of pub. docs.
10729; advice to, (Machon) 1082®;
their duties, 1082®; and the working-
classes, (Humphery) 1282®; first
requisite in, 150*^; differentiation of,
21226-213I®; work of 19th cent. libn.
for libn. of the 20th, (Bowker) 247*®-
25024; Amer. praised by Prof. Fox-
well, 26428; American libns. practi-
cal, 31924; librarians, 3382*; influ-
ence of, 344*3-14.

Librarianship a liberal profession,
24829.

Libraries, ref. lists on, 3018*1®; Annua-
rio, 322®; influence on civilization,
(Low) 3221 ; functions among schol-
ars, 33*8-25; none complete, 331®**!;
missionary work of, 33*9 ; the peo-
ple’s university, 34*4*1®; unwelcome
visitors in, 74*8-75*2; usefulness in
small towns, (West) 227-229; value
of, 32311*19; public, (Sibbald) 3382®;
memoirs of, (Edwards) 35829. See
also Free pub. libs.; Medical; Mer-
cantile; Musical; Reference; Sun-
day school.

Libraries and disease, (Cutter) 3262®-

Lib/aries and politics, 712-14.

Libraries and readers, (Foster) 752®.

Libraries in churches, 8*®.

Libraries of Babylonia and Assyria,

79*8.

Library aids, (Green) 1492*, 23328.

Library appliances, 23922-21.

Library architecture. See Building.

Lib. Assoc. Un. Kingdom, monthly
notes, 51 1®, 7529, 13823, 33824; catalog-
ing rules compared with those of
the A.L.A., 26329, 26422; delay in
printing its papers, 319*®.

Library authorities, (Tedder and
Thomas) 1492®.

Library Bureau, 256*2.

Library Co. of Phila., 165*2; extract
from rpt., 109*®; bulletin, 2372®;
separate room for ladies, 2382®.

Library economy, 54*1 ; (The^en) 12*2;
(Cousin) 517; (Grassauer) 7524;
(Rettig) 7624; a school proposed,
(Barnard) 1492* ; and discussed, 285-
291, 293-294; routine at Birming-
ham P. L. 32125. See also Arrange-
ment; Assistants; Binding; Bul-
letin board; Cataloging; Charging;
Circulation; Class numbers; Classi-
fication; Cranks; Disease; Dis-
carding books; Fiction; Fires;
Fotografic; Heat; Lectures; Let-
tering; Long-reacher ; Loss; Mes-
senger delivery ; Mutilation; Nota-
tion; Numbering; Paste; Periodical
room; Railing; Reading rooms;
Regulations ; Runners ; School ;
Shelf arr. ; Shelves ; Stock ; Stamp ;
Statistics; Thefts; Ventilation.

Library economy and history, (Cutter)
8, 32. 49. 75. 108, 128, 149, 321, 338.

Library handbook, prospectus 01 the,

Library journal, 29226; a new one pro-
posed, 1551® ; as a literary aid, 23412-1® ;

340

THE LIBRARY JOURNAL.

The index to Pseudonyms and Anonyms follows this.

foundation of, 294^^; delay in issue Manchester {Eng.)^ Free L., 339’^

of conference number,

Library law of Connecticut, 261^-271*’;

of Mass., io7’o---'’.

Library notes and news, 5128.

Library of Congress, 164-1, 1972”, 1991® ;
bill tor a building, 4i2‘i; crowcled,
61^22;)^ 9211-1-; extract from rpt.,
129-8; wealth of material for his-
tory in, 150I*'; its purchase of

Manchester {N.H.) City Lib., read-
ing for the young, 223-8.

Mann, B: Pickman, 30388; Stand,
covers for temporary binding, 6I8-
7I'; A.L.A. catlg., 26i18-2i^ 22^

26388; vermin in libs., 27480 ; on
school of lib. economy, 2898I; on
Com. on school of lib. econ,, 2908O;
motion, 29288.

ineclical books, 26982.24; plans fora Maps, Kohl collection in the Dept, of
new building, 26988-2748!; resolution State, (Winsor) 34088.
on its building, 278I8. Marienthal or Mergentheim, bibliog.

Library purchase list, 13, 38, 58, 87, of, 821^.

114, 134, 153, 327, 344. Marseilles Lib., (Carrel) 14988.

Libri and the Ashburnham mss., 79I8. Marsh, G: P., giftto the Univ. of Vt.,

Lincoln, Abraham, ref. list on, 38I8. 16488.

Lincoln, Mass., G: G. Tarbell to Marsy, Coviie de, 33988.
build a pub. lib., 92I1. Martineau, Alfred, 1191^.

Linde, Antonius van den, Nassauer Mason, Grace, 30384.

Drucke d. K. Landesbibl. in Wies- Mason, Otis T. Bibliog. of anthro-
baden, 131I8. pology, 2348!.

Linderfelt, K. A: ,418, 30388 ; cooperates Mason Science Col. Catlg. of its
with Mr. Stetson, 4788; recipe for periodicals, etc., 34082.
paste, 330^!; catlg. of Mil- Massachusetts, lib. laws in, io7!6-88.

waukee P.L., 17088 ; collab. on Poole’s Massachusetts Commandery of the
Index, 19788; added to Com. on Pub. Loyal Legion, 92*8.

Docs., 260!'; A.L.A. catlg., 2628'‘'’8i; Massachusetts Hist. Society, 10318.
reads Mr. Perkins rpt. on shelf-class- Massachusetts State Lib. Extract
ification,2642'‘>; on Com. on changed from report, 3388.
titles, 26888; motion, 29284; criticises Mathematics, ref. list on, 3088; course
Index of obt. notices, 34088-80 ; Coun- ofreadingon, (Hardy) 32220 ; Cornell

cillor, 305I8. Univ. L. Special list, 340I8.

Linonian Soc. Lib., Yale Coll., catlg., Matthews, J. Brander, notes on book-
binding, 76I! ; course of reading on

Listening-room, 21588-21611.

Literary methods, 28618-23.

Literary news, 235I8.

Literary property. See Copyright.

Literary world, 235I! ; index of
bibliogs. in, iioH, 23110-81,

Literature, ref. lists on, 308I-24. See
also Demoralizing literature.

Literature for the young, (Hewins)
36, 56, 84, 112, 132, 151, 325, 342.

Littell’s living age, index to, (Roth)
82^0, 13111-88, 23688.

Little, G: T., 30388.

Little, Sexton B. Gift for library in Melbourne Pub. Lib., 16588; extract
Columbia, Conn., 92I8.

Liverpool Free Lib., 197II.

London Lib., extract from rpt,, 12989,

Long-reacher, 4088-21.

Longfellow, H: W., ref, lists on, 3088.

Loss of books, 77I8.1

Low, Seth. Libraries, their influence
♦ on civilization, 3221.

Lowell, J. R., title of his Cathedral
changed, ab^n-ifi.

Lowell City Lib., announces additions
in newspaper, 23729; scrap book of,

24088; librarian’s assistance to
readers, 243I8,

Luther, Martin, reading notes on,

(Edmands) 339I®.

Lynn P. L., extract from rpt,, 778I;
reading for the young, 22319-82 ; re-

Middlesex Mechanics* Assoc., 478®;

19888; extract from rpt., 7788-7811.
Milne, J: Duguid, Success of free
pub. libs, in industrial towns, 33888.
Milwaukee P. L., 4723, 19788; extract
from report, 53'i-8i; catlg., 17082-23;
annotated book-list, 17184, 23786;
school department, 242*8 ; aid to
readers, 244II.

Mineralogy, works pub. during 1878,
(Whitaker and Dalton) 924.
Minneapolis, gift of G; Morrison to,
iSS*®-

Minneapolis Lib,, building, and en-
dowment, 330I8.

Minnesota Hist. Soc., catlg. of lib. in
preparation, 1388*.

Mississippi, bibliog. of discovery of
the, (Griffin) 130*8, 23482,

Mitchell, L., Glasgow, issue two mil-
lions, 35088-24; gift from Alexander
Gardyne, 35086.

Models', ref. list on, 3081.

Modern Proteus, (Whitney) 172II-

193-

Molinier, E., bibliog. of sources of
French hist., 323*9.

Monaci, E. Archivio paleog. ital.,
12*4.

Monod, Gabriel, Bibliog. of sources
of French hist., 323*9.

Monson {Mass.) P. L., report quoted,
24184.

Monterey {Mexico) Pub. Lib., 92*6.
Moore, Louise, 30384.

Morals in schools, 13288-13320, i5i26_
15213,

Morante, Marquis de, his library,
(Christie) io8*9-23.

Morrison, G: , gift to Minneapolis,
*55^®-

Morrison, Pww'^^N.H., quoted, 16780.
Morse Inst. Lib., Natick, reading for
the young, 22384.

Mottoes, ref. list on, 3081,

Mourier, Ath., catlg. des theses fran-
^aises et latines, etc., 79*8.

Muller, Dr. Johannes, Die wiss. Ve-
reine u. Ges. im I9n Jahrh., 33988.
from report, 53*8; list of periodicals, Mulloy, J: B., gift to Springfield P. L.
82*4. 32288,

Mercantile libraries, lessening interest Mundy, Ezekiel W., 30384.

in, 7S81. Munsell, Frank, bibliog. of Albany,

Mercantile Lib., N.Y., situation in- 79'®> 23481.
terferes with its usefulness, 72*8; Music, ref. list on, 3088; bibliog. of,
mutilation of books in, 7486-75'*; (Bohn) 3489, 10988; (Brahmige) 54*8;
extract from rpt., 12989-130*2; its ar- (Brown) 33989.

rangement, 275*8, *8. Music bulletin, (Brooklyn P. L.) 12*6.

Mercantile Lib., Phila., 197*8; new Musical library. Conservatoire de
system of classification, (Edmands) Musique.

io884; numbering scheme of, 10881 ; Musicians, bibliog. diet, of, (Brown)
Merc. Lib., Phila., bulletin, 10881. 339’’®.

~ “ Musse't, Alfred de, bibliog. of, (Clou-

ard) 3228 1.

Muther, Dr. R : Die altesten deut
schen Bilder-Bibeln, 33088.
Mutilation of books, 7486-75*8.

the drama, IC98I ; the home lib., 32188,

Mauchline, not Manchline, P, L.,
330*9.

Maxwell, Mrs. S. B., asks for matter
rel. to early history of Iowa, 72*4-*9.

May, Gustav. Bibliog. of electric
sciences, 323*9.

Mazarin’s library, dispersion of, 8*1.

Mazarin Lib., appointment of libns.,
*55®^-

Medical bibliog., (Billings) 32284.

Medical libs., 19982-2008'*.

Medical Lib., Boston, 103*8.

Mercantile Lib., San Francisco, 488*;

postal card bulletin, 241*8.

Mercury, ref. list on, 308'*.

Merlet, L. Hibl. chartraine ant6rieure

^ ^ , au 19® siecle, 5488,

port quoted, 2418^; assistance to Merriam, Miss M.. B., catlg. of lib. of Mysteries, ref. list on, 3088.
readers, 2438'*. Minn. Hist. Soc., 1388*.

Merrill, E. T., cooperates with Mr. N., S. B. Noyes, S. B.

M. asks if he can print catlg. from Stetson, 4788; collab. on Poole’s Nadaillac, Cointe Q.Ag,. Catlg. d’une
cards, 41*8. Index, 19724. coll, sur la Revolution Fraii5aise,

Mabie, liamilton W., on reading for Merrill, Chester W , 2608®, 271*6, 276*1, - «<>

the young, 112*8*4. 3038*; Com. on Pub. Docs., 258**;

Machon, L: Discours pour server de Com. on Res., 275*8; lib. assistants,

T«Q>n 2778*. 25; motion on, 277*6; Com. on

r^gle aux bibliothecaires, 108*6.

McMillan, James, buys Col. E. H.
Thomson’s Shakspearian lib., id*®.

McMillen, D. H., Com. on Annual
Meeting, 305*9.

Madagascar, bibliog. of, (Riviere)
323“- 339^®-

Magdalen College
(Coolidge) 128*8.

Maha-Bharata, English trans. of, pub-
lishing, 350*9.

Malden P. L., extract from rpt.,
109*8 **.

Malta, Knights of, lib. of, 149**.

Manchester, Eng,, bibliog. of, 79*6.

lib. assistants, 278**; school of lib.
economy, 290*8.2*; Com. on school of
lib. econ. 290*9; rpt. of Com. on Lib.
Assistants, 29i*i-*9; on competitive
examination, 2912*; the next meet-
ing, 291*0 ; Councillor, 305*8.

Lib., Oxford Messenger delivery, 239*8.

Metcalf, Robert C. The public library
as an auxiliary to public schools, 75*0.
Meulen, R. van der, Boekhandel en
bibliog., 338**.

Mexico, ms, bibliog. of, (Berendt)
8o2*.

Michigan Univ. Lib., 92*1-18.

Na?Succi, Enrico, Dell’ uso e della
utilita di un catlg. gen. delle bibl.
d’ltalia, 130*9; Verzeichniss d. of-
fentl. Bibl. Italiens, 131*8; coop,
catl. in Italy, 148*8-140*6; saggio di
bibliog. degli obelischi, 322*9; rpt.
on utility of general catlg. in all
Italian libs., 323**.

Nasmyth, James, book-thirst, 75*8.

Nassau, specimens of printing in,
(Linde) 131*8.

Natick. Merse Institute, extract from
rpt., 78*8,

National Dramatic Lib. to be estab-
lished in N.Y., 92*8,

Natural history, uibliog. of, (Fried-
lander) 79*4.

THE LIBRARY JOURNAL.

The iudex to Pseudonyms and Anonyms follows thisi

341

Nebraska State Lib., 24S-''-247”. cillor, 3051^ ; yearly reporter on cata-

Nelson, C : Alex., 303-^; collab. on log-ing-, 3051“.

Poole’s Index, 197^^; Asst. Sec., Numbering, 34120-28.

22?'3; changed titles, 26S20-2‘<; lib. ar- Numismatic and Antiq. Soc., Phila.,
ciutecturc, 27821-22; rules for trans- extract from minutes of meetinar.
literation, 20228; describes Cornell

extract from minutes of meeting,
7921.

Univ. L., 32212

Netlierland dialects, bibliog. of, (Pe-
tit) 5423.

Neuhaus, Paul, collab. on Poole’s In-
dex, 19720.

N.E. Hist. Genealogical Soc., 1031*.

New England libraries, 482^-4919.

New Haven Lib., 49I1.

N.Y. Apprentices’ Lib., lists of works
in special departments, 2381^.

New York city, its reading, 11312-13;
site for free lib. and reading-room,
given by A. and O. Ottendorfer,

13822.

N.Y. City L., in ruins, 3371^-33811.

N.Y. Free Circulating Library, plan

for raising funds, 4728; extract from O’Meara,
report, 5320-28; wishes to establish plans, 7622.
branches, 7212; school lectures at. Omnibus Lib., 11623-25.

244II; favorably regarded, 7121. Ontario, Province of, establishment of

N.Y. Merc. Lib., losses at, 15012-13; rate-supported libraries in, 5110.
bulletins, 23721 ; list of books for Opium, ref. list on, 3020.
young readers, 2381^; distribution Oriental bibliog., (Friederici) 351^;
by express, 23923. bibliog. of works of imagination,

N.Y. State Lib., ist suppl. to subj. 235I8.

index, 171I1-19; arrangement of Oriental printing, early, (Schwab)
books, (Homes) 203-205, 2751® ; con- 130I8.

' 1 • 1 ^ 1 T ^ ^

Pennsylvania, 1735-59, issues of the
press, (Hildeburn) 925, i5o'8, 25425.
Pennsylvania Hist. Soc. Library,
269!“.

Peoples, W. T., 30321; Com. on Lib,
of Congress, 2742?; shelf-arrange
lib.

ment, 27513

assistants, 27823

Odd Fellows’ Lib., San P'rancisco,
closed, 14715-2I; extract from rpt.,
150I1.

O’Donovan, D., 34021.

Officers, A.L.A., 304-5
Ohio State Lib., 712-11, 1971*’.

Ohio State Univ., ref. lists, (Short)

ll28.

Old book-buyer’s guide, 3518.

Olivet College, gift for lib., 33011.
Omar, ps. A vandal’s suggestion,

yjU-lG.

Changes in library

Osgood, James I
thanks to, 292II.

Osgood, S: , D.D., ref. list on, 31I1.
Ottendorfer, Anna and Oswald give a
site for a free lib. and reading-room,

138="^

densed indexes, 23721.

N.Y. Tribune, index to, 13122.

Newburgh Free Lib., catlg., 23529.

Newburyport P. L., 4811 ; few supe-
rior to, 23829; separate room for
ladies, 23829; librarian willing to aid
readers, 243II; dedicatory exercises
of the Simpson Annex, 32128.

Newcastle {Eng.) Pub. Lib., new
building, 201I8-29; extract from rpt.,

7813.

Newport, 7?./., bibliog. of, (Ham-
met) 23424.

Newspaper odds and ends, exchange
of, (Garrison) 14823-27.

Newspapers, bulletins in, 5324 ; vs.
dime novels, 8419-27 ; in school, 8527- qzo.

8614, 23415-17; division of labor in Palermo. 5^^ Biblioteca Naz.
keeping, 21323-314II; use of, by libs. Palmer, E. H., diff. eds. of his works.

Obelisks, bibliog. of, (Narducci) 32229. Peoria P. L., loSii; ref. list, 55'
Oculists, bibliog. of, (Gracklauer) specifications for binding books tor
ioo28. 10613-10715; catlg. Eng. fiction,

library news, 23517.

Perin, C., bibliog. sur le d^partement
de I’Aisne, 33924.

Periodical literature, diet, of, (Wal-
ford) 13023, 15028.

Periodical room at the Brussels L.,

53'^®-

Periodicals, indexingof current, 316-25,
515-66, 26913-15; ref. list on, 3112; Jn
Melbourne P. L., 82i4; completing
sets of,(Sickley) 10528-10612 ; taken in
Providence pub. libs., 10921 ; taken
at Boston Athenaeum, 11021; catal.
of sci. and technical, iio23; in the
London Lib., 12919; increased use
of, at Toledo, 13013; indexes to,
23615-2371-'’; issue of, as books, 24014;
free use of, 241I6; catlg. of, in Mason
Science Col., 34022; bibliog. of Ger-
man, 54I7; Swedish, (Key) 15019.
Perkins, F; B., 621, iii28, 32514; paint-
ed class numbei-s, i6i3-i5; prepares
classification for Fall River catal.,
82II; catlg. of San Francisco P. L.,
reading for the young,
)23. 26124;

Paine, Nathaniel. Publications
Amer. Antiq. Soc., 130I1.

Painting, ref. list on, 23417.
Palceontology, works pub. in 1878,
(Whitaker and Dalton) 924; ref. list
on, 2927.

Palatine Library, moved, (Allacci)
4921.

Paleografy. Urkundenlehre, (Leist)

to announce additions, 23728-23812.
Newton, J: M., Councillor, 30511.

33°^^-

Pamflets, Dutch, bibliog. of, 150-'

Newton (Mass.) Free L., i97'22; ex- Panizzi, A., ctlg. of lib. of Reform
tract from report, 5321-25 ; class bulle- Club, 32323, 2^.

tin, 13112; children’s reading, 22123.
Nicholls, J. F., death of, 350I6.
Nichols, E. A., reopens Yonkers Free
Reading-room, 3202®.

Nicholson, E. B., binding at the
Bodleian, 1612; keeps the Bodleian

open, 9213-

)8-3oi

Paris, bibliog. of, (Dufour) 922,5416;
libs, dui-ing war of, 1870-71,
(Vachon),. 1282®; municipal libs,
increasingly used, i623; Bible to be
excluded from the catlg. of munic.
libs., 15028.

cataloging rules, 264I1, Parks, ref. list on, 31I1.

Paste, recipe for, (Linderfelt) , 551^-19,

Nihilism, reference lists on, 3029. 330I1.

Nineteenth century, index to, (Gris- Pastimes, ref. list on, 3112.

wold) 5515,23617. Patent Office Lib., U. S., 197^^^; catlg.

Nolan, X>r. E: J., 30324. of add. to, (Flint) 32328.

Nolhac, P: de. Bibl. d’un humaniste Patents, foreign, index of all,28oi5.

au i6e siecle, 32128. Paul, P., Com. on Annual Meeting,

North Amer. languages, bibliog. of, 3051"

(Pilling) 80I6-18.

North Amer. rev., index to, (Cush-
ing) 55I6, 236I6.

Norton, C: Ledyard, 15221-26.

Notation, painted, (Perkins) i6i3’i-6;
new scheme, (Edmands) io824 , 28 ;
in the N.Y. State Lib., 20327-
20415.

Notes and queries, 16, 40, 55, iii, 152,

Nouve’

34026.

Nova Scotia Provincial Lib., blunders
in the catalog., (Bulmer) 10812-18.

Noyes, S. B., 1072®, 26511, 2792®, 32429;
stamp on maps and charts, iii24;the
Brooklyn Lib., I28i9; yearly rpt. on
cataloging, 16612-17225, 32323; col-
lab. on Poole’s Index, 19727 ; Coun-

Peabody, Er. A. P.,
schools, 13225,26.

Peabody Inst., Bale., 1982®; catlg.,
16714-16824, 32322; its catlg. com-
pared with Athenaeum catlg., i6825-
16921 ; essays indexed in its catlg.,
335^® j its catlg. too costly for private
libs., 33523.

Peabody Inst. Lib., Peabody, 24214;
issue of periodicals as books, 24115.

226 '5; A.L.A. catalog, 26023, 26124
his rpt. on shelf classification lost,
26426; answer to, 2752®; Councillor,
305^^ ; yearly reporter on shelf-class-
ification, 305I6.

of Persian mss. in the Brit. Mus., catal.
of, (Rieu) 1225.

Pertinax, Anobium, ps. Convict in-
dexes, 72'2i-74i5.

Peru, books. bought in, at Springfield,
32223.

Peru. 6“^^ Biblioteca Nacional.

Petit, Louis D. Bibliog. d. Neder-
landsche dialecten, 542®; Vaderland-
sche pamfietten, i5o'2i.

Petrarch, bibliog. of, 17214-22, 23421 ;
(Fiske) 13015.

Petrarch lib. of Prof. W. Fiske,

Iigli)-23.

Pettengill, Mfs., widow of A. A., be-
quest to Bridgeport P. L., 4125.
Petzholdt, Julius, his Bibliotheca
bibliog. compared with Vallee’s
Bibliog. des bibliog., 104-105; on a
new lib. jnl., 155I8; advocates the
circulation of books, 15522 ; Dante
bioliog., 17215.

Pfoundes, C. Japanese libraries and
books, 51I6.

Philadelphia, ref. list on, 3112; found-
ing of, (Stone) 23514. See Sons of
St. George.

Philadelphia Lib. See Library Co.
Philadelphia Merc. Lib., new classi-
fication of, 3524, 23727 ; librarian

offers to assist readers, 24226.
morals in Philobiblos,/.v. for W. Ireland. Book-
lover’s enchiridion, ioi4, 2381®.
Philological Society’s Dictionary, 8i24.
Philology, classical, classification of.

330> 341- . - .

2lle revue, index to, (Griswold) Peale, Dr. A. C. Bibliog, of thermal

springs of Yellowstone National
Park, 33927.

Pearson, Karl, his controversy with
Stevens and Jenner, 33025.

Peck, Prof. A. L., 30323; reading for
the young, 22645-23 ; asked to describe
his work at Gloversville, 2854®; the
work at Gloversville, 29741-29.

Philosophy, ref. lists on, 3i43.

Picot, Emile, 1092®.

Picton, Sir James, suggestion of li-
brary lectures, 3384®.

Pierce, Bradford K., D.D., 30325; dis-
ti-ib. of pub. doc., 26016; A.L.A.
catlg., 26i2®-27; motion on essay in-
dex, 27628.

Pilling, James C. Bibliog. of North
Amer. linguistics, Soi®'!®.

Pitman, Eizak, 33827.

Place, Francis, his plan for indexing
parliamentary papers adopted at
Reform Club L., 32324.

342

Platzmann, Julius. Verzeichniss e,
Auswahl amer. Grammat., Wbrter-
biicher, Katechismen,

Plymouth Free P. L., 8210, 33S28.

Poe, Edgar A., ref. list on, 31^4;
bibliog. of, 34^8.

Poetry, ref. lists on, 31^^'^®, 31^^.

Point St. School, Providence, 24^1.
Polish bibliog., (Estrejcher) 3512. ^
Political economy, ref. lists on, 3i^'’‘^®;
(Adams) 2341^; course of reading

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THE LIBRARY JOURNAL.

The index to Pseudonyms and Anonyms follows this.

Private libs, of Phila., (Robinson) 5128. Reading, dangerous, 57IG-22,

Private libraries. See Home library. Reading and thinking,

Program Com. tries to get antiquarian Reading circle for young boys, 113*^-
papep, 3iq25-2«. 11411.

Prohibited books of the Church of Reading for the young, (Bean) 217-227.

Rome, (Carrel) 7912. Reading-rooms, separate for different

Proprietary lib., an early, 14918-10. subjects, 21210-25; shelving of, 23828;

Providence Athenamm, yearly suppl., for Roman Catholics at Yonkers,
23728. _ 33020 ; for children, 114II- 14.

Providence libs., periodicals taken. Reception Committee, 26418; vote of
’'’''21 thanks to, 2912“

in, (Sumner) 7921, 238I8; list of Providence, private libraries of, 7624. Recommending worthless books.

books on, (Jevons) 23811.

Political literature, ref. lists on, 3110.
Political science, bibliog. of, (Hilde-
brandt) S4I8.

Politics, libraries and, 712-14.

Pontac, Arnaud de, his library, (Saint-
Arnaud), 10828.

Pool, R. B., 27921; lib. of R.R. Yg.

men’s Chr. associations, 3228.

Poole, Miss Mary, 30328.

Providence P. L., 47I8, 19711, 24014, 912a

24214; monthly ref. lists, (Foster) Reference-books, ref. lists on, 3121-28 ;
10I8-1121; ist suppl. to the Finding catlg. of, (Briggs) 339I8.
list, 35I8, i7ii5-i8j 23611 ; bequest to. Reference libraries, 35021-29; needed in
i47-if)-2u; and the schools, 22012-27 ; an- schools, 15524.

nounces additions in newspaper. Reference lists, index to, 2711-3225;
23729,23921; librarian’s assistance to for children, 21624-25; index to, (Carr)
readers, 24321-23; lectures, 24419; ex- 23523.

tract from rpt., 32218-23; all classes Reform Club. Catlg. of the lib., 32328.

benefited by, 322I8.

Reformation, reference list on, 3129.

Poole, Stanley Lane. Index to Lane’s Prussia, K. Minist. d. bffentl. Arbei- Regulations, library, 761®.

Arabian society, 55I8.

ten, Katalog d. Bibliothek, 8215.

Religions, list of books on, (Clarke)

Poole, W; F., 47I8, 164I1, 16523,17423^ Pseudonyms. 6"^^ Anonyms. iioH.

21721, 218I8, 26(28, 26912, 30321; his Pseudonyms, index to, (Foster) 171I8. Remsen, Ira. Course of reading

plan for indexing current peri- Psyche, 235'

chemistry, 10928,

odicals, 3ii'25; asks for corrections Ptolemy’s Geography, bibliog. of, Renaissance, ref. list on, 3129; Bibl
to his Index, 424-21; ann. indexes _ (Winsor) 3523. d’un humaniste, (Nolhac) 32128.

Public documents, 25729, 26021, 291I3, Renan, Ernest, his index praised
14-11 ; report of J, G. Ames, etc., on, 15115-11,

811; distrib. to U. S. libraries, Reporters, annual, 255I8, 30518.
(Thomas) 5123 ; in Melbourne P. L., Rettig, G. Leitfaden der Bibliothek

8214; binding, (Ames) 10728-20; inter- verwaltung, 7624,
national conference for their ex- Revue contemporaine, index to, (Gris
change, 119II; catlg. of, (Poore) wold) 32410.

15029-151I2; method of distrib. in Revue des Deux Mondes, index to
England, 33825; Anglim’s list, (Griswold ) 324I8, 34026.

(Green) 34123-25; quarterly list of. Revue germanique, index to, (Gris

(Boehmer) 34128. See also Congres-
sional docs.

Public libs., Japan establishing, 1621 ;
free pub. libs., (Jevons) 32212.

to period, lit., Si4-25; librar
and schools, 5120-5224; convict in-
dexes, 7224-^410; index to periodi-
cals, 14925; finding lists Chicago
P.L., 17125 ; suppls. to Poole’s Index,

(plan) i94'8-i9828; (discussion)

26912-18; collab. on Poole’s Index,

19721 ; yearly rpt. on lib. architecture
at Cincinnati meeting, 23828; his
cellular plan for a library, 249I5;
added to Com. on Pub. Docs., 26028;

A.L.A. catlg., 26021-26122 ; plan for
consolidation of monthly index,

26326 ; an index of essays, 2%21-26629,

21^22^23^28^ 29^ 26726, 2&22 ; Com. On PubUc School Libr ^^^StLouis.
an essay index, 2&24; changed titles. Publisher’s notice, 6128-29.

26848; Lib. architecture and the Publishers’ trade list annual, 23717,

Library of Congress, 27021-27324; 33925.

an essay index, 27712, i3; lib. archi- Publishers’ weekly, 24926; qua. list of
tecture, 27818, 21 ; the Pub. Lib. anff^.. pub. docs., 34126.
schools in Chicago, 281I4-284I8; Pullman, G: M., 7612.

school of lib. economy, 288I8-289I8; Pullman Lib., dedicatory address,
vote of thanks to, 29215; Vice-Pres., (Swing) 7628-7714.

30414 ; yearly reporter on legislation, Pusey, E. B., his lib. purchased
— ..1 by the memorial fund, 11912.

Richelieu, A. J. du P., card, de, ref.
Q. P. index, annual for 18S2, (Gris- list on, 32I1.
wold) 8222; 1881 and 1882, (Gris- Richmond, H: A., Com. cn Annual
wold) 23612. Meeting, 30519.

Athenaeum on, 2319-2422 ; first half of Quaritch, Bernard. Catlg., 2328; Richter, P. E. Verzeichn. d. neuen
Ireland’s Emerson bibliog. taken catlg. of binding, 13026-28. Werke, 110I6.

from, 3515; English surprise at its Quebec, the Lib. of Parliament House Richter’s designs, 34411-19.

305I6 ; the suggested index of essays
anticipated, 335I8.

Poole, Mrs. W; F., 30326.

Poole’s index, 16415-19, 23714 ; Mr. Poole
asks for corrections to, 421-421; the

wold) 32419.

Rhees, W. J. Catlg. of pubs, of the
Smithsonian Institution, 23429.

Rhind, J. and J. R. Plan of Brander
L., 322I1.

Riccardi, Dott. Paolo. Catlg. bibliog.
antropolog. ital., 323II.

Richardson, — , architect of Ames
Lib., 7619.

Richardson, E. C.., 27524, 30328; co-
operates with Mr. Stetson, 4724;
collab. on Poole’s Index, 198I6; on
- )oks, 27524 ; (’

, , classihc

theology, 320-321.

on books, 27919; classification of

size, 7i19-2u; errors in, 7329, 7411-15; burnt, 9212.
suppl. to, 194-198; completion of, Qiieensland, catlg. of Parliament
23623-28 ; recommended to small libs.. Lib., 34021.

292I8. Quicherat, Jules, bibliog. of, (Giry et

Poore, Maj. B: Perley. Catlg. of Curzon) 35I1.

government publications, 15029-15112. Quincy P. L. catlg,, 81I8.

Popular science monthly, its index,

7^23j28j 8224, 23622. Railing, 11419

Rieu, C; Persian mss. in Brit. Mu-
seum, 1225.

Rijks Universiteit, Leyden, catlg. of
lib. of, (Petit) 15022.

Riviere, le R. P. E. Bibliog. mal-
gache, 323I1, 33928.

Robert, Ulysse, has arranged family
deeds at the Bib. Nat.,

Portland P. L,, reading for the young. Railroad Yg. Men’s Chr. Assoc., H- Robinson, C: J., on indexing, 83I1-12.

Robinson Crusoe, bibliog. of, 5428.
Robinson, F. W. Private lib. of
Phila., lib. of G: W. Childs, 5128.

braries of, (Pool) 3228.

Portraits to be indexed by the Index Railroads, ref. list on, 3122.

Soc., 15114. Railways, bibliog. of, (Woas) 5422.

Postal card bulletin of additions, Rankin, G: W., Fall River catlg., 8212, Rochester Univ. Lib., 11214, 24013,
2^q24-26, Raymond, Rossiter W., the Brooklyn 24214.

Lib., 12912-15. Rockwell & Churchill, 2571^.

Reading, ref. lists on, 3122-27; (Foster) Rogers, T. P. W., cooperates with
7523; Why, how, and what to read, Mr. Stetson, 4724; collab. on Poole’s
(Cheney) 11215-19; books and articles Index, 19821; extract from letter,
on, (Foster) 14928; hints for those 21929-22011.

who know how to read, 238I8; the Rogge, H. C. Bibliog. Grotiana,
art of, 28615-I8; hundred best novels, 32312.

32i29; improvementin,atProvidence Rollins, Mrs. E. A., E. H. Arr,
P. L.,322i4-i6; howto teach, 34323-24, her death, 33023.

See also Children. Rollins, E. A., his offer to Dartmouth

Reading at school, plan for systematic Col., 33028.
training in, (Foster) 2423-2611 ; sup- Roman history, ref. list on. 32II.
plementary reading in high and Rome, Palatine lib. moved to, (Al-

frammar schools, 58I8-19. See also lacci) 4921.
chools and the Library. Rosenau, N. S., 30320.

Pottery and porcelain, ref. lists on,
3121.

Pougin, Arthur. La bibl. du Conser-
vatoire de Musique de Paris, 7623.

Prefixes, entry under, 15225-29.

President, A.L.A., 304I8.

Prime, Wendell, D.D. The Bodleian
library, 8I8.

Prince, J: T. Catlg. for the young,
22329-22421.

Princeton Lib., catlg., 16829-170I8.

Printers of Strassburg, history of,
(Schmidt) 33I1.

Printing, bibliog. of, in Marienthal,
(Kelchner) 821*.

Rosmini-Scrbati, bibliog. of, (David-
son) log-'*, 2341^.

Rotli, Prof. E Index to Littell’s
living age, 8220, 13117--*^.

Rottner, — , 338-*.

Rouveyre, E., 3'3S-’; Bibliog. raison-
nee et pratique, 34^8.

Rowe, Bolton, B. C. Stephenson, 40--.

Rowell, J. C., collab. on Poole’s In-
dex, 1982-.

Roxbury Branch of B. P. L., 761”.

Roy. Inst, of Gt. Brit. Catig., 166^*.

Rubel.C:D.,& Co., 25621.

Runners, 214I8-18.

Ruskin, J: , 34411,1®; ref. list on, 3212;
Ruskin and fairyland,

Russia, ref. list on, 3212.

Russian bibliog., 12I8.

Rutgers College L., 471®

THE LIBRARY JOURNAL.

The index to Pseudonyms and Anonyms follows this.

343

Schroeter, Dr. A. Gesch. d. deutsch. Smithsonian exchanges, history of,
Homer-Uebersetzung iin 18. Jahrh., (Boehiner) 4928.

1213. Smithsonian Institution, catig. of pub.

Schulz, K. Kat. d. Bibl. d. Reichs- of, 2342^.
gericlit, 12I8, 13111; Centralblatt f'iir Sobron, Dr. Felix C. Y. Idiomas de
Bibliothekswesen, 33022. la America latina, 8012.

Schiirmann, — , 33S22. Social Law Lib , 103I®.

Schwab, M., Incunables orientaux. Societies, publications of learned in

19721.

Sabin, Joseph. Diet, of books rel. to
America, SqI®-!®, 234211.

SafFord, Truman H., 6i3; cooperates
with Mr. Stetson, 472*

Poole’s Index, 19S22.

St. James’ Meth. Epis. Church Sun-
day-school L. Catig., iioi®.

St. John of Jerusalem, Order of. See
Malta, Knights of.

St. Louis Pub. Schools Lib., 8'®; ex-
tract from rpt., 7811'28, 19712; 23728;
its arrangement, 27511,15,22.

St. Mary’s College, Blairs, Lib. of,
(Edmond) 14922.

130I8.

Schwartz, J., 7128, 2792®.

Science, bibliog. of, (Friedlandcr)
7gii.

Science, bibliog. of Germ. sci. so-
cieties, (Muller) 33928.

Sciences, Facultes ides, Travaux des
professeurs, 150I1.

Scientific periodicals, catig. of, (Bol-
ton) 11022,23713.

Scotland, bibliog. of sculptured
stones, (Edmond) log®®,

Melbourne P. L., 82II.

Society of Natural Sciences, Buffalo,
103I'*; vote of thanks to, 29213.

Solberg, L. Thorvald, 32513, n ; bibliog.
of literary property, 235II; list of
text eds. and trans. of the Eddas,
235^2-

Solcfan, F; J., 30328; ref. list of
Peoria P. L., 5512; specification for
binding, 10611-1071®; collab. on
Poole’s Index, 19S25; his importing
union, 263I®, 2».

Scott, Sir W., ref. list, on the Wav- Solly, E., Wagstaff’s list of eds. of

erly novels, 32-

Scribner’s monthly, its index, 732®.
collab. on Scudder, Newton P. Bibliog. of
alumni of Wesleyan Univ., 15023.

' Eikon basilike,” iioi3.

Somerville P. L., reading for the
young, 22428-22515; assistance to
readers, 243I*.

Scudder, S: H., leaves Ilarv. Coll. Li- Sons of St. George, Phila., found a
brary, 9I8; Coop. Com., 304^®. library, i627-2''

Sculpture, ref. list on, 234^^.

Sea, ref. list on, 32^2.

Seals. Urkundenlehre, (Leist) 92®.
Seaver, E. P. Morals in schools,
13314-15.

Sebillot, Paul. Bibliog. de la lit. de
I’Alsace, 923.

Saint-Maur, Congregation de, bibliog, Secretary, A.L.A., 304*5; rpt., 25520-

of, (Lama) 92®.

Salford Free Lib., lectures in, 162®.
Salisbury, Stephen, Jr. Index to
proceedings Amer. Antiq. Soc.,

Sormanni, Giacomo. Viticoltura ed
enologia, ii23.

Soule, C: C., 30328; lawyer’s ref. man.
ual, 5425, 235*3, 24721-22; Com. on
changed titles, 26822; Com. on nom.
inations, 27523 ; lib. architecture
2yS25-26; state libs., 29521-29622.

Soule & Bugbee. Legal bibliog., 235*8

South American libs., statistics doubt
ed, 1472S-14812.

Spanish America, native languages ot
(Sobron) 80*8.

San Francisco Free P. L., 78*®; catig.,

256i«

Selection of books for Sunday-school
libraries, 821-9*5; for libraries, 109*^ ;
guide to the formation of a lib.,

(Slater) 5225. See also Children, Spelling reform, ref. lists on, 32*5.

^ , Reading. Spencer, Herbert, ref. lists on, 32*5

17121-22; reading of the young. Sermons, ref. list on, 32*8. reading notes on, 3521.

226*5; suppls., 23721 ; short reading Shakespeare, W; Catal. d. Biblioth. Spencer, Edward, quoted, 16720.
list, 238*5; lectures at, 244*1; extract d. D. Shakespeare Gesellschafl, 21; Spofford, A. R., 199*2, 259*2,27925; rpt
from report, 339*3-11. ref. lists on, 32*3-**. on pub. docs. 8**; Com. on Pub.

San Francisco libs., 6i*i' *8. Sham book titles, 33S2®. Docs., 2572®; letter on the National

San Francisco Merc. L. A., extract Shelf arrangement, 1223, 275*1-22; of Lib., 26925-27021 ; his letter discussed,

from rpt., 7821; titles printed on places in the U.S , 552*; (Cutter) ” "" .

205-208; of N.Y. State Lib., 203-

Shelves, long-reacher to take books
from high, 4026-21; overcrowded,

53*3; shelvi^ig, (O’Meara) 76*2.

Shepherd, R. H., bibliog. of Swin-
burne, 323**. , ,

Shethar, S: Yonkers free reading- Stael, Mme. de, ref. list on, 32*®.

room, 33021. ^

Short, J; T. Historical ref. lists, 238'
hist. ref. lists of Ohio State Uni'

postal cards and sent to readers
once a mont’n, 2392*-2'i.

Sand, George, bibliog. of, 235*1.

Sandeau, Jules, libn. of the Mazarin
Lib., 15521.

Sargent, M . . E., 30326 ; cooperates with
Mr. Stetson, 4725; collab. on Poole’s
Index, 19823.

Satchell, T. Bibliotheca piscatoria,

S4-°-

Saunders, F; , 27921.

Saybrook P. L., 49**.

Scaliger, Joseph, suggests convict in- Sibbald, A. T. Pub. libs., 3382®.
dexing, 73*2. ^ Sickley, J. C., 30321 ; completing sets

Scartazzini, G. A. Dante in Ger- of periodicals, 10528-10^’'’ • — "
mania, 323*®. ^ on Poole’s Index, 19823.

Schaff, P; Course of reading, theol- Signal service, bibliog. of, (Abbe)
ogy, 7q22 ; bibliog. of, 235*1. _ 199*®.

Schlegel, G. Catig. des livres chinois, Simms, W; Gilmore, ref. list on, 32*^.
Leide, 340*®. Simplicity appealing to imagination,

Schmidt, C. Gesch. d. altesten Bibl. 86*5-23.
u. s. w. in Strassburg, 33**. Simpson, Medora J., 30321.

Schoelcher, Victor, gives his Handel Simpson, Michael H., gift to New-
collection to the Conservatoire L., buryport P. L., 32121.

Vice-Pres., 304**; yearly
reporter' on buildings, 305*6.

Springfield Cily Lib., 48*®; announces
additions in newspaper, 2372®; ex-
tract from rpt., 322*3.

Stack, book, 21125-212*^, 247*5.

Staebner, F. W., collab. on Poole’s
'ndex, 198*^.

School, books in, 85*2-*!. See also
Reading at school.

School of arts, Edin., its library, 75*6-

School of lib. economy, 285-291, 293-

Stamp on maps and charts, (Noyes)

Stanley, Dean A. P., ref. list on,
32*6.

State libs., 295-296; their management
^ , ^ ^ ^ ^ „ and support, (Brown) 245-247.

of periodicals, 10528-106*2; collab. State Normal School, Westfield, 4723.

’ ■ ’ ’ Statistics of libraries exceeding 100,000

vols., 721-215; monthly notes on,
33826.

Steiger, E., on the duty on books
2752*.

Stetson, W. K., 472®; his plan for in
dexing current periodicals, 3*1 ; coop,
indexing of current periodicals, 5*6-
6*^, 47*6, 26323; collab. on Poole’s In-
dex, 198®^.

Stevens, A. H., 343**.

Stevens, H: , review of Prof. Dziatz
ko’s criticism of British Museum,
23826; controversy with Pearson

Size notation, the A.L.A. plan, (Bow-
ker) 248*3-22.

Slater, J. Herbert. Library manual,

5225-3424.

Smith, E: B. Address of welcome at
Buffalo, 255*5-24; Com. on Annual
Meeting, 305*8.

Smith, Eva, 30327.

Smith, H. E. J., 30327.

33025.

Stevens, Lucy , 30328 ; collab. on Poole’s
Schoolchildren. Children. Smith, Eva, ^^30327. Index, 198*5; reading for the young

Schools and the library, Chicago, Smith, H. E. J., 303*7. 225*7; Com. on Res., 275*3; Council

5129-52*4, 129*5-23; Fletcher’s Free Smith, Lloyd P., 303*7; Philadelphia lor, 305*4.

Lib., 52*6-53*2; Milwaukee, 53*6-**; libs., 269**-*®; Com. on Lib. of Con- Stewart, A. T., 76*7.

Worcester, (Green) 229-233; Glov- gress, 274*7; motion, 276*®; on essay Stockton {Cal.) P. L., the railing

ersville, (Peck) 297. index, 277** ; lib. architecture, 278*®- railed at, 1 14*®.

' 2* ; school for librarians, 294*7; Vice- Stoddard, R: H; , librarian of N.Y.

Pres., 304*5. City L., 337**.

Smilhnieyer, J. L., his plan for Con- Stone, F. D. Bi-centennial reading ,
gressional Library, 41**, 269**, 272*3,

23, 27, 273*2, 28.

Schools and libs., 78**. **'2®, (Green)
75*6, 281-285. See also Reading
at school.

Schools, ref. libs, needed in, 155*4;
newspapers in, 344*5-47.

Stowits, G. N., 303*8

344

THE LIBRARY JOURNAL.

The index to Pseudonyms and Anouyms follows this.

me s uanie iid. i me-siip registry, 240“.

Titles changed. See Changed titles.
•V. Coll. Lib., 9^^* ; Tokio Daigaku [Tokio (Japan) Uni-
ricans, 3324. versity]. Regleinent d. Bibl., 77'*.

Vinton, F: Catlg. of Princeton Lib.,
1692U, 170I'*; his plan for a lib., 24915.
Vismara, Ant., bibliog. de Cesare
Balbo, 792^.

W., IT., a distinguished librarian, C.
A. Kossovich, 7615.

Strassburg, libraries of, and printers, Tilden, S: J., 3302*.

(Schmiot) 33!^ TiIJinghast, C. B., coop, com., 304^**.

Strassburg Lib., Witte’s Dante lib. Title-slip registry, 2401^.

taken to, 1 19I1. ' ' ’ .

Subject catlg. of Ilarv,

developed by Americ: . ^ . ...

Subject-index catlgs., (Homes) 148*3- Toledo P. 1^., i9S2">; extract from rpt.,

22. 130*3; reading for the young, 225*1 ; W., T. II. Full names, 324*5.

Sumner, W. G. Course of reading in aid to readers, 244*2. Waitz, G. Quellenkunde z. deutschen

political economy, 7921. Toronto, free public libraries pro- Gesch., 3222®.

Sunday opening, Ilarv. Univ. Lib., moted in, 48*1-23; A.L.A. invited Wakefield, Beebe Town Lib., reading
9*3; Lib. Co. of Phila., 109*5. to meet at, 280*2-24, 291*4-11. for the young, 224***.

Sunday question, bibliog. of, (Ar- Toronto Free P. L. Candidature of Walford, Cornelius. Diet, of periodi-
mington) 5^**. G. M. Adam, 32124, cal lit., 13023, 15025.

Sunday question in literature, 10923. Tours, Bibliotheque de, thefts in, 61*3. Wallbridge, Edith, 30328.
Sunday-school books, 58*3, 11425-27; Towneley libraiy to be dispersed, Waltham Free P. L., 22322.

ref. lists on, 32*5-11. 13821. Ward, James W., 30328; A.L.A.

Sunday-school libraries, 244I2 ; (Green) Transliteration, the Coop. Com. to pre- catlg., 26222,20; Com. on Reception,
58*4-18; selection of books, 821-9*5. pare rules for, 29221-29312.

Supernatural, ref. list on, 32*1. Treasurer, 30412; rpt., 25625-25724.

Surgeon-General’s Lib., U.S. Vol. 3 Trinity College L., 47I8, 19622.

of catlg., 16713; does not duplicate Trollope, Anthony, ref. list on, 3222.
the Library of Congress, 26922-24. Trowbridge, J. T., reading for the
Sutton, C. W., ann. list of Manchester young, 11312-21.

Triibner & Co., i

pubs., 7925.

7429

26422; motion, 27421,28; vermin in
libs, 27428; shelf-arrangement, 27512;
lib. assistants, 27721 ; lib. archit.,
27828; question on school of lib.
econ., 289*8; Com. on Annual Meet-
ing, 30518,12.

Warnings for buyers, 6021-22, ^120-27.

Sweden, relations with foreign powers. Tucker, Gilbert M. Bibliog. of Amer- Washington, G; , ref. list on, 322*.

bibliog. of, 7528; periodicals of, lean English, 35I8.

(Key) 150I2. Turgenief, I. S., bibliog. of, 33921.

Washington, libs, at, 1282*.
Waterburv, Silas Bronson Lib., 279I8.

Sweet, Herbert C. Complete catlg. of Turkey, ref. list on, .3222; a public Watertown P. L., 4725; extract from

mod. law books, 235*

Swinburne, Algernon C :, bibliog. of,
(Shepherd) 32314.

Swing, Prof. Pullman Library dedi-
catory address, 762'-77i4,

Sydney Free P. L., in danger of burn-
ing, 61I2-21.

Szelinski, G: Thierzucht u. s. w.,
15023.

T., S. The Bancroft Lib., 9I8.

Tamizey de Larroque, P., 5412.

L*hler, P. H., collab. on Poole’s In-

_ ..... dex, 19822.

Tarbell, G; Grosvenor, about to build United States, ref. list on, 3223; ar-
a pub. lib. in Lincoln, Mass., 92**. rangement of places in the, 552*,
Taste must be led, 8624 28. (Cutter) 205-208.

Taunton P. L., assistance to readers, U.S. Geological Survev Lib., 199***.

lib. fimnded, 61*5 ; bibliog. of Otto- rpt., 7822; reading for the young,
man literature, (Huart) 10926. 22328; assistance to readers, 243*5.

Tuttle, Mrs. L. E., gift to Olivet Col- Watson, Mr., Portland, reading for
lege for lib., 330*5. the young, 224*6.

Twining, 7?^z;. T: , his “ Recreations of Watt, Robert. Biblioth. Brit., 2323.
a country clergyman,” not indexed, Waverley novels, ref. list on, 322*.

83**. Webber, W; L., ioS24.

Tyler, A., Indianapolis P. L. catlg., Webster, Daniel, ref. lists on, 32*6;
I’7o26-I7I**. ■^2^21. bibliog. of, 33921.

Weekerlin, — , librarian of the Con-
serv. de Musique, 77*8.

Weimar proposed as the site of the
Library of the German Empire, i623.
Wesleyan University, bibliog. of
alumni, 15028.

24314

Taylor, Achilles, collab. on Poole’s
Index, 19822.

Taylor, Bayard, ref. list on, 32*8.
Taylor, J; , candidate for city librarian,
Bristol, 350*6.

Teaching, ref. lists on, 32*

J, , . Wesleyan Univ. L., 4722, 19724, i024.

U.S. National Lib. See Library of West, Theresa H., 276*6, 3032*'; useful-
Congress. ness of libs, in small towns, 227-229.

U.S. National Observatory, 199*8. West Point Lib., 199*2.

LT.S. Patent Office. Patent Office, Westwood, T. Bibliotheca piscatoria,

199*8. 5426.

U.S. Signal Service Office Lib., 199*8. Wheeler, E: S., Com. on Annual

p, , . U.S. State Dept., Lib. of, 199*5. Meeting, 305**'.

Tedder, H; R. Erench librarian on U.S. Surgeon-General’s Office Lib., Whitaker, A. E., Councillor, 305**.
librarianship, 51*8 ; the bibliography 12822, 19922; compared with Brit. Whitaker, W. Geological record for

of 1882, 51 24-28; library authorities, Mus. and Bibl. Nationale, Paris, 1878, 92*; works on local geology,

14925; library hand-book, 33625. 19926-20023; resolution on a build- 110*2.

Temper in librarians, 150**. ing for the, 278*6; catlg., 32328. Whitney, Miss E. F., cooperates with

Tenney, Mrs., renominated as state U.S. Treasury Dept., Lib. of, 199**. Mr. Stetson, 4722; reading for the

librarian of Michignn, 7*2. U.S. War Dept., Lib. of, 199*6. young, 225*2.

Tennyson, Alfred, ref. list on, 32*6. Universidad de St. Marco, Lima, the Whitney, James L., 25622, 275*2, *5,
'" ■ , lib. carried off by Chilians, 14727. 30326; modern Proteus, (paper) 172-

Universitats Bibl. zu Breslau, Mu- 174! (list), i7.‘;-i93; (discussion)
sik-Druckwerke, 3426, 35**.

Univ. of California Lib., 19822.

Univ. of Mich. Lib., building nearly
. . ..... completed, 16424,

23426; course of reading on, (Schaff Univ, of Minnesota Lib., finding
and Brown) 7922, 238*6; classifica- lists, 352*,

’ ' Univ, of Vermont Lib,, gift of F;

Billings to, 61*3 ; new building for,

16425

Terrier, Lord de. Lord Derby, 4024,
Text-books, ref. lists on, 322*.

Theden, Dietrich. Jugendliteratur,
12**.

Thefts in libraries, 6i*4.

Theology, bibliog. of, (Hurst) 54*6,

(list), 175-193; (discussion)
265i3-*6, 268*5-28; difficulty of prepar-
ingthe list, 319*6; rpt. of treas., 25622-
2572*; on Com. on changed titles,
26822; school of lib. economy, 28922;
Executive Com., 292*6, 295**; treas,,
304**.

Whitney, Solon F,, cooperates with
Mr. Stetson, 4722; reading for the
young, 22328-224.*5.

Theses, catal. of, (Mourier and Del- Unwelcome library visitors, 74*6-75*2. Whittaker, Alfred E., asks for foto-

tion of, (Richardson) 320-321.
Theologischer Jahresbericht, 1881,
23715.

tour) J’9*8.

Theses interchanged between France
and European universities, 92*6-21.

Thimm, Franz. Die Manuscripten- Vachon, Marius. L’art pendant la

Utrecht, books published in the city
and university, (Beijers), 1092*.

Sammlung d. Lord Ashburnham,
130*6.

Thomas, Rev. Dr., on Brooklyn Lib.,

grafs of librarians, 48*2.

Wigan Ref. L,, 330*8.

Wight, Mr., on reading for the young,
22324-27.

Williams College L., 4724, 19S22.

guerre de 1870-71, 12S26. ^ ^

Vallee, L^on. Bibliog. des bibliogs., Wilson, H; An old English text, 12824.

235*2; reviewed, ICutter) io42*-io52*. Winchester, G: F., 6*3.

Van Name, Addison, Councillor, Winchester Town Lib., suppl. to
Thomas, Ernest C., 3*6; distrib. of 305**. catlg., 172*3.

pub. docs, to libraries in the U. S., Ventilation, lib., 2i3*5-*7. Wine-making, bibliog. of, (Sorman-

5123 ; classed catalogues, 7526-77*6; Venus, ref. list on, 3224. _ ni) ii29.

library authorities, 149-2; library Veterinary medicine, (Szelinski) Winsor, Justin, io2i, iii2S| 267**, 26823,
handbook, 33622, 15022; (Wolf) 15024. 272*7, 3032"; pres., 255*2, 26422, 27,

Thomson, Col. E. H., his Shaks- Vice-Presidents, A.L.A., 304*4. 265*6, 268*2, 37427, 276*8, 278*2, 290*6,

pearian lib. bought byjas. McMil- Vincent, B; Catlg. of Roy. Inst, of Gt. 295**, 304*2; functions of a library in

Ian, 16*5. Brit., 166*8.

Thysius, Joannes, catlg. of lib. of. Vine-culture, bibliog. of, (Sormanni)

(Petit) 15022, 1126,

a community of scholars, 3^2;
bibliog. of Ptolemy’s Geography,
3522; his plan for Roxbury Branch,

THE LIBRARY JOURNAL. 345

The index to Psendonyms and Anonyms follows this.

B. P. L., 76’''; to deliver an address
at Ann Arbor, address at liuf-
falo conf., 163*^-1652"; his plan for a
lib., 249'*; Com. on Pub. Docs.,
260** ; Washinf>;ton libs., 2692* ; fiction
and the circ^liation of the B. P. L.,
2802" ; early cartographical history of
America, 2S5*®, 3i927'28; Executive
Com., 292*", 2951*; yearly reporter on
general interests, 305** ; Kohl collec-
tion of early maps, 3402^*; address at
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 350*2.

Witchcraft, trial of Dr. Flade, So*^.

Witte, Prof. K: , his Dante lib. re-
moved to Strassburg Lib., 119**.

Woas, Franz, Journal-Lit. d. Eisen-
bahn-Tecknik, 5422.

Wolf’s medicinisches Vademecum,
15024.

Woman’s fund, 4728-48*2, 5322.

Wood engraving, bibliog. of, (Bri-
vois) 35*1.

Woodberry, G. E., on libs, 24420-24522.

Woodward, R. C., 3032".

Worcester P. L., 47*", 48*8, 197*8; ex-
tract from report, 34*2'*"; catlg.,
170*8-21; annotated book-list, 1712*;
children’s reading, 22121; and the
schools, 230*2-2332"; lists of addi-
tions, 23721 ; reference dep., 24120;
assistance to readers, 243*".

Work and play, 862"-S7*8.

Wright, W. H. H., gets advertise-
ments for the Plymouth catlg., 82*®.

Wiistenfeld, F. Geschichtschreiber
d. Araber, 5420.

Yearly reporters, 255*8, 305*8.

Yellowstone National Park, bibliog.
of thermal springs of, (Peale)
339”-

Yonkers Free Reading-Room, 33026-20.

Young, the. Children.

Young, Prof., 170*'*.

Y. M. C. A., Berwick, Pa., bulletin,
324*2.

Y. M. C. A. libs., statistics of, 350*2.

Young Men’s Lib., Buffalo, 4720,
103*0, 19723, 22621, 27523; annotated
book-list, 17121, 23725; vote of thanks
to, 292*1.

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346

ANONYMS AND PSEUDONYMS.

ANONYMS.

Abolition a sedition. — Calvin Colton, 32511.

Abr^g^ de I’histoire de P^trarque. — Theodore Pierre,

3251''*.

Abr^g^ de la vie et des amours de P^trarque et de
Laure. — M, de Vigne, 325I8.

Amours de Petrarque et de la belle Laure. — A. Achard
d’Entraigues, 32518.

Angus Graeme. — Miss Veitch, 83II.

Authors and publishers. — G; Haven Putnam, 15511.
Bible myths. — (Not) Arrom, iiin.

Bitter cry of outcast London, The. — Rev. W. C. Pres-
ton, 341I1.

Black Abbey. — Miss May Crommelin, 34112.

Bonaparte, a poem. Dr. Keith, 32511.

Brother Bat. — G: Coleman the younger, 3411®.

Brown eyes. — Miss May Crommelin, 34112.

Campaign of the 45th Reg. M.V.M. — C; Eustis Hub-
bard, 40^1.

Collections of sundry publications, etc. — Mrs. S. C.
Reid, 32421.

Conseils a ma fille et a mon gendre. — Marie Ren^, vcte
de Saint-Mauris, iio^i.

Daughter of the Philistines, A. — Prof. H. H. Boyesen,
83I1.

Defense de la constitution du pape Innocent X. — M. de
Lalane, iio28.

Democracy. — Mrs. H; Adams, iio28.

Dove and the eagle, The. — G; Lunt, 83I8.

Dreams. — C; G. Fall, 13123.

Essai sur I’Apocalypse. — Theodore Crinzoz de Bion-
ens, 13121.

Extracts from a journal. — Rev. Stephen Weston, 13121.
Fanchette. — J; Esten Cooke, 83I8.

German home life. — Countess M. von Bothmer, 13125.
Golden rod. — Mrs. Burton N. Harrison, iio28.
Guerndale. — F. J. Stimson, i6i5, iio28.

Helen Troy. — Mrs. Burton N. Harrison, iio29.

Hints to my countrymen. — Theodore Sedgwick, 32512.
His second campaign. — Maurice Thompson, 32423,
34113.

History of John de Castro and his brother Bat. — G:
Colman the younger, 341I5.

History of the churches of New Bedford. — Jesse Fill-
more Kelley and Adam Mackie, 5521.

Hollej, Myron. — Elizur Wright, 11112.

Huit jours a Lourdes. — J; Vaudon, 341II.

Humors of Eutopia. — Ezekiel Sandford, 32513.

In the west countrie. — Miss May Crommelin, 34112.
Jeune moraliste, Le. — Saint- Prosper, not Em. Des-
champs, iiii®.

Jewel of a girl, A. — Miss May Crommelin, 34112.
Lesson in love. — (Not by) Mr. Bynner, 4021.

Life of Elisha Tyson. — J: S. Tyson, 32513.

Little sister. — Mrs. Jane Yardley, 15513.

Marked “ In haste.” — Blanche Roosevelt, 83I®.
Memories of seventy years. — Mrs. Anna Letitia Le
Breton, 341 n.

Merry England. — Wilfrid Meynell, 1312®.

Modern Manicheism, Labour’s Utopia, and other
poems. — W. T. Thornton, 341^”’.

Mr. and Mrs. Morton. — Dr. and Mrs. Harold Williams,
mil.

Mr. Jacobs. — Arlo Bates, iiiH.

Mr. Jacobs. — Prof. H: A. Beers, 34115.

My watch below. — Clark Russell, S3I®.

Ontwa. — Gen. H: Whitney, 32511.

Orange Lily. — Miss May Crommelin, 341^^.

Original poems. — R: H. Townsend, 3251®.

Passages from the life and writings of William Penn. —
T; Pym Cope, 8321.

Priest and the man. The. — W; Wilberforce Newton,
11112.

Rosier des guerres. — Pierre Choinet, 11112.

S. Justo, Eusebius a. — Joannes Durel, 32421.

Selections from Plato’s Apology of Socrates. — Mrs. M . .

Wilder Foote Tileston, 1611.

Sketches of Yale College. — Ezekiel Porter Belden, ib*®.
Stars and the earth. The. — Felix Eberty?, 8322.
Tallahassee girl, A. — Barton D. Jones, iiii3.

Trimester in France and Swisserland, A. — Rev. Ste-
phen Weston, 8322.

Utah and its people. — Dyer Daniel Lum, 1312®.
Vaucluse, et ses alentours. — Abbd J. M. J. Constantin,
3251®.

Vaucluse, Pdtrarque et Laure. — J. F. Andr^, 32518.

Wit and wisdom from Ouida’s works. — Rev. F. Sydney
Morris, 13128.

PSEUDONYMS.

Ange-B^nigne. — Mme. de Molenes, 5525.

Anobium pertinax. — W: Hand Browne, 7213.

Anstey, F. — F. Anstey Guthrie, 4022.

Arrom, N. E., mi®.

B. , N. A. t— C. A. Nelson, 3221®.

Barnaval, L: — De Kay, 341II.

Bell, P. — Paul Bellet, 8329.

Blake, Mary. — Mrs. Mary N. Blakeslee, 5528.

Bonner, Sherwood. — Mrs. Kate Sherwood Bonner
McDowall, 8320.

Brune, Claire. — Mme. C. Marbouty, 13128.

C. , L. M. — Miss L. M. Cole, 341I1.

Cellarius. — Rev. T: Welbank Fowle, 832*.

Cour. Pierre. — Mme. de Voisins, 552®.

Danberr^, Mr. — Lord Beaconsfield, 402*.

Dare, Shirley. — Susan C. (Dunning) Power, 16I8.
David, C. G. — D. Goodman Croly, 32426.

Dixon. — Mme. Michel Masson nee Clbmence Harding,
13128.

Eurotas. — Gustave Claudin,

’Eyd). — Mme. Valtesse de la Bigne, 15512.

Francesca. — Miss Francesca Alexander, 15512.

Frollo, Claude. — Catulle Mendes, 5526.

Gaadi, Dario. — Domenico Gnoli, iiii®.

Gagnaud, A. de. — L. de Berluc-Perussis, 13121, 3251®.
Gerfaut, Philippe. — Mme. Dardenne de la Grangerie,

Grant, Gerald. — Gertrude Grant, 832*.

Gresham, Mr. — Mr. Gladstone, 402*.

Hensel, Octavia. — Miss Mary Alice Seymour, 8328.
Hipp, G. — Hippolyte Guillebert, 325I6.

Hoinos. — Rev. James Gilmour, 131I8.

'^ohn. Junior. — T: Gibson Bowles, 111I8.

L-egrand, Jacques. — Gabriel Richard, 13129.

M. , Le marquis de. — Moise Schwab, 111I8.

Mariet, Jeanne. — Mme. Charles Bigot, iii28.

Martin, E : Winslow. — James D. McCabe, iii^®.
Maryan. — Mme. Marie Deschard, 5528.

Masque de fer. — P: Gille, 11121.

Modjeska, Mme. — Disclaims the poem published in her
name, 32428.

N. ,

1°

J: — J: Nichols, niH.
fa (}>S$vp la r

Nella la B. — Nathaniel Field, 832®.

Owen, Ashford. — Anna C. Ogle, 552®.

Owl, Eugene. — T: Pilgrim, mi®.

Palliser, Plantagenet. — Lord Carlingford, 402^.
Penn, Arthur, — J. Brander Matthews, 13121.
Perch, Philemon. — R; Malcomb Johnston, 4023.
Pertinax, Anobium. — W: Hand Browne, 7213.
Philo Scotus. — J. B.Ainslie, 11121.

R. , G. E. — G: E; Rice, 341I®.

Rosier, Jacques. — Mme, Jules Paton,5525.

Rowe, Bolton. — Clement Scott, 832®.

S. , J., of Dale. — F: J. Stimson, iio29.

S., M. C. — Mrs. Mary Crowinshield Sparks, 155'®.
S., W. H. — Who is he, 32428.

Scotus, Philo. —J.B. Ainslie, 11121.

Stein, A. — Margarethe Wulff, 3242*.

Stein, Adam. — Robert Springer, 32421.

Stein, Arnim. — H. Nietschmann, 3242®,

Stock, Le baron. — Maria Ldtizia Bonaparte, 832®.
Strathesk, J: — J: Tod, 34121.

Taylor, G; — J. A. Crowe, 32421.

Terrier, Lord de. — Lord Derby, 4021.

Triolet. — Paul Mahalin, 5529.

Verity, Dottor. — Leone Fortis, 1552®.

Verus. — Don Luis Onis, 11122.

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